Friday, January 21, 2011

Week 3 - Possible Solutions

Visit the following websites:
http://www.thp.org/
http://www.bread.org/learn/links.html

What are some things that we can do individually to help those in extreme poverty? What could we do as a group to help end hunger? Please brainstorm 2 original ideas and comment on at least 1 peer's idea. Be creative.

60 comments:

  1. help people in need

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  2. Personally, I think it's very easy to help people in need. All you need is one person to make a change. By just letting people know how bad and extreme poverty really is, you can make an impact and change in somebodys life.

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  3. Um... Don't know why my name is 'b72d6824-32de-11e0-91aa-000bcdca4d7a' ... But my name is Amanda Davis..

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  4. ummm.... i dont kno why my namess "Anonymous" but this is amanda demers!
    b72d6824-32de-11e0-91aa-000bcdca4d7a.... i love your point amanda davis ns your new name? lol

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  5. Lmao................I hate you. Seriously thought, gurl we needa make dem aware. Ay

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  6. HAHAH.... u dont hatee me! but now that their awaree.... poverty is a large issue nd we needa help out the ppl in neeed

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  7. I like where this is going... ;)

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  8. Owwwwwwwwwwwwww ;*

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  9. Poverty is a huge problem in the world and will never stop as long as there is stupid people out there. All you can do is decrease the amount of people in poverty. But to help them we just need to invent public water purification devices.

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  10. b72d6824-32de-11e0-91aa-000bcdca4d7a that is a good point all you need is one person to make a difference

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  11. 2 things you could do is walk in the walk for hunger or you could donate food/ clothes. As a group we can build houses or something for people that are 2 poor 2 afford. I agree with Aaron about the stupid people out there

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  12. I think we should donate food and clothing to help those in need.If we donate money the people in poverty thwy can get fresh water and medacine to help stop the spreding of diesease

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  13. Ya, people should volunteer at soup kitchens for the hungry and people should walk with me Jimmy in the walk for hunger. We raised money for that cause, what did you do. . . ? Thought so...

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  14. Yeah i think we could volunteer to help with hunger. We could also raise money by doing other fundraisiers other than the walk for hunger.

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  15. i disagree with shelby. i think that the poor people can solve this problem if they really wanted to. we should help alittle, but we have our own problems that we must take care of first before helping other countries. the people with hunger should travel to find food and earn money so they can buy crops and make their own food privately and not have to worry about paying for food anymore.

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  16. i agree , i think we should volunteer to help hunger , donate cans of food, clothing and things we dont need to help these people survive

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  17. Hii , my names Amanda Neil & There are many things that we can do to stop hunger. i think if every school had a bucket & people would bring in canned goods during the school year that we can help reduce the number of hungry people.Also while going through you're clothese , instead of throwing them away that more people should donate them because there are many people in need.

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  18. My names Lauren Felaccio. I agree with Amanda, i think that every school should have a center for donations for people in need. To help fight poverty and hunger, we should set up more fundraisers to get food and money to send to people and also spread the word around to donate to local shelters or orginizations.

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  19. for every 1 person thats average/wealthy can help 1 person thats in poverty. every person can make a difference.

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  20. to help poverty as an individual you could spread the word about donations and fundrasers to help those who have no food or no house. you could donate money to help families in poverty

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  21. You could do small things like start a fundraiser at your school or simply writing a check and sending it to the hunger project.

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  22. There are so many people in the world that have more money than they need. They could be the ones that could donate a lot of what is needed in these countries.

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  23. I agree with Daniel. If one person starts a fundraiser or something then a lot more people could follow and help.

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  24. Connor had a good idea in saying that we should volunteer at soup kitchens for the hungry and walk in the walk for hunger.

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  25. There are many things that we can do to stop hunger such as...if every school had a bucket people would bring in canned goods during the school year that we can help reduce the number of hungry people. Other helpfull things like that

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  26. I think that if our government put enough time and thopugh into outreach to other countries a lot of problems could be solved

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  27. I think that we need to raise awareness on the issues because the more people know the more likely they will want to help.

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  28. We need to understand the economy of the world and where we stand. Our lives our not that bad, we can donate money and send food. I agree with courtney that we need to raise awareness so more people are involved. Sb chillen

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  29. Everyone has had good ideas so far but the thing is putting them into practice. We may all say that we could help, but the hard thing is actually following through,

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  30. we should follow through helping those in need

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  31. We may be one person but we can still make a difference. We need to speak up. We can even raise money and donate food to pantries. As a group we can walk for hunger and take a stand together.

    Like Courtney said maybe we need to inform people about this and raise awareness.

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  32. Individually, we could donate food and other supplies we take advantage of everyday. Another way to help decrease poverty is to stop saying we're going to do something about it, and actually do it.

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  33. I agree with courtney, awarness is the key.

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  34. Well we could obviously donate, anything from food, water, or money to soap, or socks, or clothes. We could, as a group, get together to try to raise supplies or money to send over to poverty stricken areas or even raise enough money to go over there ourselves and try to help them in any way possible to make a difference.

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  35. things you could do is the walk for hunger or donate food, water, or clothes. As a group we can have fundraisers to help out the needy like food drives and such. I also agree with Aaron and Jimmy about the stupid people out there

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  36. I agree with Tyler. alls we can really do is to donate money, clothes, food, water. i also agree that we could raise money to help people.

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  37. If everyone donates something to these groups it would make such a huge difference in the lives of all the people living with hunger.
    -kyle o'keefe

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  38. If we break to down to basica thoughts it is very easy to help eat the world. We sell food at fast food places for 1 dollar if we were to sell thoughts to starving countries not much expense whould appear. As a group, we can prevent waste of food not eaten. We throw away food everyday that could go to starving countries, if not that not buy food that we will not eat that the store. i volunteer at the women place in boston to help serve food to hungry women and if we all did this we can soove hunger in Massachusetts.

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  39. we can help people who are starving by simply raising awarness of what is going on, nobody is so heartleess that they won't help people who are dying of starvation. As a group we could start fundraisers and awareness groups to make people realize that people need help in other areas, even in america people are starving and nobody thinks that they can help and they throw away so much food and its stupid because anything will help!

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  40. I agree with everyones opinon on the issue!!!!!!

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  41. I agree with shaun, if the government put more effort into it, we could help more people

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  42. We can help end poverty by donating food and clothes to those in need. To combat hunger we could create more programs and funds that help support devastated families.

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  43. I agree with Anthony, we definately throw away alot of food that others would use.

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  44. we could all donate money to countries in need of food. or donate money to help them buy the food they need.
    i also agree with tyler, donating things like soap would make it so they would have more money to buy food

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  45. i agree with anthony, if everyone chipped in it could make a huge difference
    -kyle okeefe

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  46. One person can only do so much, but you can make a big difference if you set your mind to it. An idea that one person can do by themselves is just strictly raise awareness to the concept. Also as a group you can spread your knowledge and help raise money all together! I agree with Anthony and think that if everyone donated a little bit of their time we would help end the issue much faster!

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  47. I agree with Sean Townsend, if they had the money, they wouldnt need food or other things because they could buy them.

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  48. What we could do to soften the affects of poverty is to have a food drive or ask for donations.
    Also we could raise awareness of the problem to get people to understand whats going on.

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  49. I agree with Anthony.
    If we could all just pitch in a little help we could change the world.

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  50. i also agree with anthony, we all just need to step up and do a little to make a big difference

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  51. if every one person in the world dolated food water or money once everyday that would extremely lessen world hunger and poverty.It doesnt just happen WE have to make it happen.

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  52. Those who are in extreme poverty deserve to be treated to as soon as possible. I think that the restaurants that throw away there food that isnt eaten at the end of the day should be taken to places such as food pantries or the homeless shelters to eat. They will not care if it is a day old or the left overs- as long as its not stale or dangerous to eat. This would help end hunger for some places but also to end hunger I think the government should stop focusing on how we should eat healthier and actually work on how to give food to the unhealthy. Even if it encouraged to eat healthier, it is way too expensive. Instead of spending money on encouraging healthy eating, the money should go to the people who cant eat at all! I also agree with Sean who says if everyone donates we can help!

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  53. we could play freerice on freerice.com and give rice to people that need it and we could stop wasting food.

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  54. I think an easy way to help end hunger as a group is collect non perishable foods and send them to countries that need it. Also, as individuals we can waste less food and only take what we can eat and donate foods and money to help people in poor small countries that dont get good meals everyday. and Leanna brings up a good point that the government should help to show Americans to not be wasteful and help us realize that we are lucky to have food avaliable to us when we need it.

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  55. How to help:
    -write to Congress
    - organize your community into donating to charities
    -donate extra food to less fortunate

    I like lee lee's idea

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  56. we could help people i need of care by donations of food and water

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  57. Poverty is becoming a huge problem in the world. we can do many things but the main things to help would be donating clothes, food, and water. also by making the government realise that we need to make our laws more fair and compassionate to people in need.

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