resilience. Resilience argues for the combination of humanitarian aid and development programs and has become popular in politics and basically argues that ending need is a priority of humanitarian organizations. However, based on evidence from articles on resilience, ("Supporting Resilience in Difficult Places" and "Building Resilience by Deconstructing Humanitarian Aid") combining humanitarian aid and development organizations is not the answer. Humanitarian aid organizations and development…
As Lorde sings in her song Royals, money is being spent on jet planes, islands, [and] tigers on a gold leash.” There are millions of people starving in this world. There are millions of homeless people in this world. There are children who would do anything for an actual toy, for an education, and even just a new pair of shoes. In our community there are also people who are starving, homeless, and poor. They need the same resources to survive as the people around the world do. What can I do to…
public figures for humanitarian causes. It is debatable that celebrities’ vast influence on the public can negatively impact the cause. Realistically, the celebrities influence on the public is the reason that celebrity humanitarians are successful advocates. Celebrities hold the power to generate awareness quickly and talk with bureaucrats to initiate change, while also benefiting from the publicity. These qualities make them strong candidates for becoming the voice of humanitarian causes.…
Life in the refugee camps It’s all about survival they just sit or lay and wait and wait for food and water and medical to show up they are about to die without food and water and medical they need your help all you have to do is donate what you want them to have they don’t care what it is they just want food and water, if they have water it's dirty water but right now they don’t care they are just so thirsty and hungry it’s unreal we need to help them before they die just image all the kids…
Writing in November 1971, Peter Singer condemns developed nations for not making the necessary decisions to save East Bengalis from evitable starvation, violence, and disease. Even the most prominent aid contributors such as Britain and Australia spend much more on domestic luxury projects than on reducing fellow human suffering. Using Bengal as an example, Singer asserts that people have a moral obligation to give significant amounts of money to aid organizations. In disagreement, I will argue…
Some say They United States is the best country in the world, unchallenged by other countries the USA is an innovated country full of diverse cultures and lifestyles. Not only that there are many large corporations founded in the United States with some of the riches CEO’s in the world. In a typical town. millions of $600 phones can be seen carried by numerous people. Most which have nice cars, houses and a safe job. As America grows so does the people living under the poverty level. Poverty and…
The Home Depot mission has the vision, and ethical framework, to be a major contributor to all of many causes above. Two of their values are giving back to our community and doing the right things. On the website doing the right things is quoted a, "doing the right thing" instead of just "doing things right".(Home 2016) They continually do above and beyond works in the community by helping with building project that donating equipment to help build and repairs homes and shelters in many low…
Throughout the community I reside in, there is a continuous problem of what goes on in the streets. It is not uncommon to see people walking the streets late at night, or begging for money during the day. The reality is these people are struggling, and they need help of some sort. They can’t provide for themselves and we as a community are unable to provide for the amount of people who are struggling. What is the best way to help solve the problem in our community? Many people are going without…
Sheri Fink’s 2003 nonfiction work War Hospital reports, in great detail, the atrocities of the Bosnian War at Srebrenica through the lens of the war medicine that was practiced there. Fink takes both a macro and micro approach to explaining what happened at Srebrenica in the early 1990s. She chronicles the actions, thoughts, and experiences of individual doctors, both Bosnian and international, who risked their lives to treat injured civilians in the most challenging of conditions. Alongside…
In January 2016, 637,067 homeless citizens were accounted for in the US. Out of those 637,067, 4,000 were accounted for in Virginia. Homelessness in Virginia has gone up 4.2% in the last three years. Aren’t those facts just a bit unsettling? When I heard we had to a Capstone Project, I knew homelessness in VA had to be incorporated into my project. The project is called Project HOHRVA. Project HOHRVA consists of two drives at RRES & PVES and volunteering at HomeAgain, a small homeless…