Today is blog action day 2008 and the subject is poverty. My contribution is a tribute to Greenville Technical College … Earlier this week I highlighted Greenville Tech’s efforts to encourage awareness of the homeless. Specifically I posted about a photography exhibit called “Who Among Us”. Because of the exhibit I reflected on what solutions exist … Although I know that poverty has to be addressed at many different levels I personally believe that education is the most powerful long term tool to fight poverty.
Other City Daily Photo bloggers participating in Blog Action Day include
- Houston, TX (USA)
- Jakarta (Indonesia) by Ollie and Santy
- London (UK) by Ham
- Tacloban City (Philippines) by agnesdv
- Tauranga (New Zealand) by Lisa Sarsfield
- Willits (CA, USA) by Elaine
Following are some additional resources you may want to review when reflecting on how to fight poverty:
Hi
Thanks for the post. Thought you might be interested in the free courses on poverty available by universities involved in Open Educational Resources. I wrote a post here:
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/openair/?p=334
At The Open University we feel we’ve made some contribution to improving access to education but of course we recognise there are still huge barriers and “hard-to-reach” groups.
Laura
I agree with you that education is a key tool in fighting poverty. Even a basic education unlocks the doors for better opportunities. I will check out your ‘ those among u’s link shortly.
Thankyou so much for the link to my blog, alot of traffice has already come to my blog via yours and I appreciate your help in spreading the word!
Regards,
Lisa
Laura, thanks for your comment and your post with all the resource links.
Lisa, I’m pleased to have added a link to your post and I’m pleased your received some traffic from it.
Thank you so much for taking part in fighting poverty!