Social Justice

"Social Welfare Helps Those
Who Need It the Least".

-Sociology 101

So here's how you can really help:

Child Labor.
A problem throughout the world. But how are the big mass merchandisers going to give you the lowest price? Buy buying from the cheapest suppliers. It's a global economy and in some countries, four year olds earn their bowl of gruel by working hard. You get cheap prices, but the factory down the road lost the business and had to close. Their employees, your neighbors are now working in the warehouse unloading those containers from Third World countries and applying anti shop lifting tags on imported jeans down at the mall.

Children First

Unicef

Children's Welfare League of America

Center for Missing & Exploited Children

The Institute for Children and Poverty

Care

This organization's work reaches 25 million people in 63 nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Programs include emergency relief and rehabilitation; education; health and population: children's health, reproductive health and water and sanitation; and income: small economic activity development, agriculture and community development and environment.

Food First

The Hunger Project

Oxfam

Refugees International

It's hard to plow your field with one leg One hundred million uncleared landmines lie in the fields and alongside the roads and footpaths of one-third of the countries in the developing world. Claiming over 500 victims a week, landmines are a weapon of mass destruction in slow motion.

Every 22 minutes a person is killed or maimed by a land mine. Land mines cannot discriminate between the footfall of a soldier and that of a child. 80% of all land mine victims are innocent civilians. There are an estimated 110 Million landmines planted around the world.

An anti-personnel mine cost about $3.00..that's the selling price inclusing the profit for the manufacturer. The Department of Defense is spending the price of 1 millions mines to train honey bees to detect the scent of TNT in an effort to locate mines. It's a honey of an idea!

The Canadians have a program for demining the globe.

     69 countries world wide affected by landmines
     110 million landmines buried world wide
     100 million landmines stockpiled
     100,000 landmines removed annually
     2-5 million landmines planted annually
     there are 360 different types of anti-personnel mines currently in use around the world
     there are approximately 100 companies in 55 countries that produce landmines

At the present effort of demining it is estimated it will require 1.100 years
and 33 billion U.S. dollars to eradicate the landmines that now lay planted.

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