Website - Caritas MDG Campaign

This website is the online home of the Caritas Millenium Development Goals campaign.

Video - Timor Leste Web

A brief feature on Timor Leste, from Catholic Mission.

Challenging the status quo through education

Church-run schools in north India are key to helping dalit converts to Christianity escape the poverty trap. (John Newton, Aid to the Church in Need)

Education, poverty in Church leader’s sights

Monsignor Enrique Figaredo Alvargonzales recently celebrated his 10th anniversary as head of the Battambang apostolic prefecture. (Keo Kagnha, ucanews.com)

Tanging Yaman Foundation

The Tanging Yaman Foundation (TYF) is a Philippine non-profit organization that conducts “liturgical concerts”, and calls itself a “conduit foundation” that raises money this way for the needy.

St Xavier’s Social Service Society

St. Xavier’s Social Service Society (SXSSS) is a charitable Jesuit organization in India that aims to “help the poor help themselves”.

Video - Kick out World Cup poverty

This film takes a look at the contrast between the billions spent in South Africa for the World Cup tournament, and the poor and homeless in the country.

Video - Hope in Heaven

Hope in Heaven is a film by Meredith Ralston, following two years in the life of Mila, a worker in a bar in Angeles city in the Philippines. The city, according to this film, is one of the busiest and sleaziest sex tourist destination in Southeast Asia.

Soccer slums: The truth about African football

The international popularity of Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto’o means that Ivory Coast and Cameroon aren’t now always associated in the popular imagination with civil war – or presidents who forgot to leave office – but with goals scored and trophies lifted, too. (Daniel Howden, The Independent)

‘Who should I cheer for’ at World Cup 2010

WhoshouldIcheerfor.com is a site from the World Development Movement that ranks all the teams playing in the FIFA World Cup 2010 - measured by parameters such as each nation’s records on freedom, equality, human rights, history of giving - to find the most supportable on the basis of their efforts to eradicate poverty and social injustice.

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