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Ellen Evans led a game for her fourth-grade Spanish class in New York, where Harlem's Children Zone started. Photo: Essdras M Suarez/Boston Globe President Obama and Boston non-profits hope to replicate Harlem's Children Zone in Boston and elsewhere James Vaznis Boston Globe May 1, 2009
In Immokalee, Fla., hundreds of day laborers work in the tomato fields. Bon Appetit Management promises to boycott Florida tomatoes if growers do not agree to improve conditions and increase pay for these workers. Photo Washington Post. Food company will boycott Florida tomatoes if growers do not increase wages and improve working conditions for workers Jane Black Washington Post April 29, 2009
One location where a Chicago food bank is helping feed people that need food. Photo: BBC See complete video Poverty hits African Americans hard BBC News April 23, 2009 See video Detroit's long road to ruin BBC News April 21, 2009
The police archives with information on the disappeared and the Guatemalan government's role in their disappearance might have been destroyed had it not been for Police Officer Ana Corado who refused an order to destroy the records before they were identified and secured by human rights activists. Photo Ann Marie O'Connor/Washington Post The emerging secrets of Guatemala's disappeared Anne-Marie O'Connor Washington Post April 11, 2009 Wife of human rights activist captured, tortured as her husband was about to release a key human rights report Manuel Roig-Franzia Washington Post April 11, 2009
What does hunger mean? (You can be hungry and there is world hunger. How are they related?) What percentage of the world's population is hungry? What does severe hunger feel like? Test your knowledge of hunger by taking our hunger quiz--topics vary weekly--and during April Hunger Notes will donate $.01 to Heifer International. Take the quiz World Hunger Education Service thanks the Peace Lutheran Church of Gahanna, Ohio and Gloria Schaffer for their recent contributions to support our work
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A rally in a West Bengal village for Mamata Banerjee, who has usurped the Communists and cast herself as the savior of the poor. Photo: Ruth Fremson/The New York TimesCommunists, long supporters of the poor and landless in India's West Bengal State, face electoral threat over plan to take farmland for industrial use Somini Sengupta New York Times May 2, 2009
Mexico has ramped up its containment efforts. Photo: BBCMexico flu sparks global action BBC News April 23, 2009
A boy stands in parched corn field near Harare, Zimbabwe. Photo: Associated Press Could food shortages bring down civilization? The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse. Lester Brown Scientific American May 2009 Climate change resulting in drought, population growth, and neglect of developing country agriculture will cause billion-person famines in next 40 years, US scientist says Lewis Smith Times Online March 23, 2009 See Hunger Notes special report Global issues: the earth, the environment, and poor people
An armed Pakistani Taliban stands beside the body of one of two policemen killed in the Buner district on April 7. Photo: Reuters Taliban seize vital Pakistan area closer to the capital New York Times April 22, 2009 Impoverished Haiti slips further as remittances dry up Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post April 17, 2009
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