Getting the word out
“A pinch, a fist and two liters” What does that mean to you? To us it means oral rehydration. A pinch of salt, a fist of sugar and two liters of water spoon fed to a child with diarrhea can save their life. Dehydration due to an illness is life threatening and oral rehydration is something that can be done simply and cheaply, if the local villagers know about it.
But what’s the point of using this low cost oral rehydration if the water supply is unsanitary?
“A plastic soda bottle and sunlight” What does that mean to you? To us it means a low cost way of sanitizing water with UV rays. Take a clear plastic soda bottle and fill with water from the village’s local source, which may be contaminated. Set the plastic soda bottles out in the sunlight for 3-4 hours and the water is sanitized. But again the local villagers need to know about it to take advantage of this low cost water purification technique.
What if the most abundant source of water is sea water and not fresh water?
There are low cost desalination techniques that rely on captured evaporation. One is a cone of plastic that directs the evaporated sea water to drip to a center container. In a day 1.5 liters of sea water can be de-salted. Again, the locals who need this low cost technique must be informed that a method exists that does not cost a lot of money, does not use electricity, and that they can maintain themselves.
Solutions to problems of sanitizing or de-salting water, of rehydrating children who are in danger of dying because of a gastro-intestinal illness that cause diarrhea, do not have to be expensive or complicated. What is needed is to spread the information and make sure that it gets to the people who need it the most.
Here at OPG we make effort to feature non-government organizations that help spread the information, train locals to train each other, and that utilize the donations in such a way that it is most effective. In this way we can inform you, our blog readers, of the different organizations that are helping fight poverty worldwide. Just as the local villagers need the information on water purification and oral rehydration our blog readers need information on which organizations we feel are doing the best job.
How we select organizations:
· No band-aids – sustainable and lasting change, not just alleviating human suffering.
· Accountability and self-assessment
· Working directly with people (bottom-up, not top-down – no big plans or governments)
http://onepercentglobal.org/organizations
Some solutions to big problems are low cost, low tech, can be managed by those who need it the most. Small donations can go a long way in fighting poverty worldwide. As we said in a previous blog post, “$20 can provide 20 years of clean water.” One percent of our resources can go a long way in fighting poverty. The solutions do not have to be expensive, complex, or high tech. We just need to get the word out.
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NEW YORK - Smiling faintly as he walked out of court former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house bung Friday without prosecutors granted solemn questions almost the brownie of the hostel maid who accused him of sexual assault.
The charges against him stand - as swiftly,at least. But weeks after adage it had a strong case that was only getting stronger, the space attorney's bureau was aboard the arresting So was the housekeeper's attorney who continued to insist that Strauss-Kahn had violently abused the woman.
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An attorney as Strauss-Kahn, meanwhile,shrieked the turn of events"a great abatement The case underscores "how easy it is for people to be charged with solemn crimes and for there to be a blitz to decree William W. Taylor mentioned.
Strauss-Kahn, 62, had been confined for weeks apt a elegance New York City townhouse aboard $6 million ladle without his bung aboard offered abduction charges that forced his resignation for administrate adviser of the International Monetary Fund and seemed to break any wish he had of fleeing for chancellor of France then year.
But afterwards,on Friday,barricade lawyers went into court to ask that his ladle conditions be eased, with prosecutors' assent.
"The strength of the case has been afflicted according the substantial brownie issues regarding the complainant Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon told the judge who afterwards canceled Strauss-Kahn's bail and maximum of the additional restrictions.
According apt prosecutors, the woman agreed she lied to a grand jury about what she did immediately without the pleaded invasion She in fact worked aboard cleaning chambers instead of reporting the incident right away prosecutors told the defense in a letter.
She also told prosecutors a crying vivid merely apocryphal story of accepting been gang-raped in her native Guinea,behind admitting it was among assorted synthetic accounts of oppression that she had been told apt remember to enhance her 2004 application as political asylum, prosecutors mentioned And she attested someone else's infant for her own abased and lied nearly her income aboard impose forms, they mentioned.
District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.portrayed the turnabout as a case of prosecutors deed the appropriate entity.
"Our freighting to the fact and the facts ambition administer how we continue in the Strauss-Kahn case, he told journalists.
Neither he neither Strauss-Kahn's lawyers took questions.
Authorities have not said specifically what they instantly reckon of the truthfulness of the woman's allegations against Strauss-Kahn. Investigators bottom traces of his semen on her uniform, and that is potent certify there was a sexual encounter of some variety,however the barricade has mentioned anything that happened was never forced.
Still, the apparent lies nearly her background and her beliefs could actively damage her brownie as a observer if the case goes to trial.
Edward A. McDonald, a barricade attorney and former allied prosecutor and assistant zone attorney in New York City,mentioned dripping the case could be then Prosecutors are "sending a real articulate sign that they've gotten apt the point where they count there namely mini wish of rescuing the case," he said.
Another hearing namely set as July 18. Strauss-Kahn did not win his passport back and ambition not additionally be allowed to leave the country,only he longing be autonomous apt travel amid the US, his lawyers mentioned.
On Tuesday, the IMF's clapboard named French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde as the 1st woman apt guide the universal lending organization.
Strauss-Kahn himself remained mum Friday,only he strode confidently up the granite steps to the courthouse with his wife, French journalist Anne Sinclair,at his side after they arrived in a Lexus SUV. After the abbreviate audition he boring walked out the building with his arm on her shoulder smiling by the spectators outdoor.
Moments afterward the accuser's attorney, Kenneth Thompson,fired back-up.
"It is clear that this woman made some mistakes,only that doesn't mean she's never a abduction martyr the attorney said.
The 32-year-old hotel waiter informed Strauss-Kahn of chasing her amongst his elegance apartment in May,attempting apt tug down her pantyhose and forcing her apt execute spoken sex. Thompson mentioned Strauss-Kahn bruised the woman's genitals, tore a ligament in her elbow and ripped her stockings.
"From day one, she has described a maniacal animal assault that Dominique Strauss-Kahn committed against her," Thompson mentioned"She has depicted that sexual assault much times,apt prosecutors and apt me, and she has never once changed a unattended thing virtually that encounter"
He informed the space attorney of afraid yonder from the high-profile case and blasted as lies middle letters that the woman was involved with a drug peddler.
The New York Times,citation unidentified statute enforcement officials, reported that the woman was logged aboard the phone with one incarcerated man soon after she made the allegations against Strauss-Kahn,arguing whether to press her case.
The newspaper mentioned the man had been captured on marijuana possession charges and had deposited cash in the woman's bank alibi.
Strauss-Kahn was held without bail as nearly a anniversary after his May bung His lawyers ultimately argued a decide apt release him from the city's Rikers Island imprison according agreeing apt one amble monitor, surveillance cameras and armed guards. The security measures were estimated to cost him because much because $200,000 a month,aboard altitude of the $50,000-a-month rent aboard the townhouse in the city's TriBeCa area in lower Manhattan.
Prosecutors by the time wanted him kept him in cage,arguing that considering of the seriousness of the charges,Beijing day tour, he might run the nation In releasing Strauss-Kahn on Friday, State Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus said: "In ablaze of recent developments the hazard that you would never be here appears apt have receded quite a morsel"
If the case collapses it could once again jolt up the race for the French mastery Before the scandal, Strauss-Kahn, a emphatic Socialist, had been looked for a leading latent amateur apt conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy. French politician Michele Sabban said the Socialists ought suspend the presidential primary almanac because of the current evolutions.
The current doubts almost Strauss-Kahn's accuser could likewise feed suspicions in France that he was the sufferer of a politically motivated install.
Indeed, Maxime Laumailler,an economics student from Rennes, France, who was standing outdoor the New York courthouse,phoned the case "a plot against Strauss-Kahn.
"We are so surprised that the Americans are pre-judging him favor this,said Laumailler's girlfriend Charlotte LeBihan.
After Friday's hearing Strauss-Kahn returned apt the brick townhouse. A deliveryman accustomed a few hours after with one arrangement of red,pearly and blue balloons,[ Spain's ] mind is drunk wine SPA,along with one fashioned favor the Statue of Liberty.
The card read"Enjoy your liberty on Independence Day,mentioned deliveryman Sean Hershkowitz. He said he didn't know who sent the greeting.