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Those little orange boxes at Halloween

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By Lorraine Stevenson October 31, 2014

I love the cute kids in bunny and pirate costumes who come to my door October 31. They remind me that, despite the silly spendfest Halloween has become, it’s still a celebration for children. Halloween now ranks second only to Christmas in sales, followed by back-to-school spending, according to the Retail Council of Canada. I

Opinion

India’s rising wealth and food security not reflected in its children

By Annie Banerji March 5, 2012

Crying as she is put on an electronic scale, two-year-old Rajini’s naked, shrivelled frame casts a dark shadow over a rising India, where millions of children have little to eat. The children are scrawny, listless and sick in this rundown nutrition clinic in central India with its intermittent power supply. If they survive they will

News

More Than Six Million Need Food Aid In N. Korea

By Silvia Aloisi April 7, 2011

More than six million people in North Korea urgently need food aid because of substantial falls in domestic production, food imports and international aid, the United Nations said May 25. In a report providing a rare glimpse into the reclusive communist state, where a famine in the 1990s killed an estimated one million people, three

Livestock, News

Mongolian Herders Face Grim Work Project

By Undp Release March 11, 2010

The Uni ted Nat ions Development Program (UNDP) is developing an unusual cash-for-work program in Mongolia to remove the remains of millions of livestock that are scattered around the country, reduce health risks for the population while providing income for herders whose livelihoods have disappeared due to extreme weather conditions unique to this country. A

News

Aid Groups Plan Renewed Fight On Hunger

By Roberta Rampton March 5, 2009

Lost jobs, faltering banks and recession have pushed the issue of world hunger out of U. S. headlines, but U. S. aid groups are set to launch a plan to refocus attention on the issue, former U. S. senator George McGovern said Feb. 23. The plan by aid organizations including Feed the Children, Oxfam America,

Country Crossroads

Halloween family traditions

By Sheila Braun October 30, 2008

Forget the tricks and costumes on Halloween night – we were at home and having fun. I recall many blustery Halloween evenings and being thankful that I was not dashing from door to door, shivering in tights and a thin costume. Instead, we were toasty warm by the woodstove and enjoying our own October 31

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Those little orange boxes at Halloween

India’s rising wealth and food security not reflected in its children

More Than Six Million Need Food Aid In N. Korea

Mongolian Herders Face Grim Work Project

Aid Groups Plan Renewed Fight On Hunger

Halloween family traditions

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