IB Community Theme: Sharing our humanity

call for action for earthquake victims, sichuan, p.r. china

dear all, as u learned from the news, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck China's Sichuan province on Monday, less than 100km from the provincial capital of Chengdu. it s estimated that over 50k people, including many schul-age kids, died in the disaster.

United Nations Millennium Development Goals

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.

Malaria TV

Short video from University of Toronto, showing malaria parasite dividing inside living red blood cell. Some basic facts about malaria.

BBC - HIV/AIDS

A useful site containing information, videos, interviews on AIDS/HIV from around the world.

Jubilee USA

Website says:

"Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of more than 80 religious denominations and faith communities, human rights, environmental, labor, and community groups working for the definitive cancellation of crushing debts to fight poverty and injustice in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. "

It is a USA campaigning organisation with suggestions for action to join and assist its campaigns to lobby Congress to pass the Jubilee Act.