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Thursday 16th January 2012
A good thing:
Sayyid Abdullah Hashemi, Afghanistan’s new national director of orphanages, has earned himself a reputation as a man out to clean up the nation’s children’s homes. Children’s homes are notorious for abuse and neglect where even the $1.50 a day per child allocated for food can get lost to corruption.
View: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/02/201221385511970797.html
A bad thing:
60.9% of Nigerians in 2010 were living in “absolute poverty” - this figure had risen from 54.7% in 2004. Poverty has risen in Nigeria, with almost 100 million people living on less than a $1 a day.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17015873
A thing to change:
Sixty percent of flowers sold in the United States come from Colombia, where nearly 100,000 workers earn poverty wages in spite of working grueling 16 to 18 hour days. Send a letter calling on Colombia’s Labor Minister to keep his promise to hold Colombian flower companies accountable for labor rights abuses.
http://action.laborrights.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3665
