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Card, B. Y.; And Others – Education for the Disadvantaged Child, 1973
Reviews Canadian anti-poverty programs according to which of five dimensions is dominant in their activities--biological and demographic, geographical and ecological, structural, psychological and cultural, and/or poverty-as-social-problem. (JM)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Demography, Ecological Factors, Environmental Influences
Chambers, Bradford – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1981
Describes the program, initiated in 1980, to improve national literacy in Nicaragua by sending student volunteers to the countryside and adult volunteers to the urban slums as teachers. (Condensed from "Interracial Books for Children Bulletin," No. 2, 1981, p3-7.) (Editor/SJL)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Developing Nations, Literacy Education
Dunkle, Margaret C. – 1995
This report provides a detailed examination of the various federal programs for children and families and outlines ways in which the United States Congress and Executive Branch could make these programs work better. Intricate and often overlapping goals and actions are typical of the Congressional committees and Executive Branch departments that…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Committees, Family Programs, Federal Government
Peer reviewedHughes, Colin – Child Welfare, 1995
Discusses child poverty and child welfare practice in Canada. Focuses on the goals and activities of Campaign 2000, a pan-Canadian movement intended to secure implementation of the 1989 House of Commons resolution to eliminate poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000. (MDM)
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Children, Federal Legislation
Peer reviewedWharf, Brian – Child Welfare, 1995
Identifies the major themes that have emerged in this special issue on child welfare in Canada, and presents a critique of the policies and practices now dominating the Canadian child welfare enterprise. Outlines the changes required to move child welfare from its residual stance into an enterprise that develops a capacity for innovative practice.…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Family Programs, Foreign Countries, Government Role
Garrison, John W., II; Landim, Leilah – Grassroots Development, 1995
The Citizens' Campaign Against Hunger and Poverty and For Life is a nongovernmental organization in Brazil that recruited and organized more than three million volunteers to distribute food baskets, support gardening and water projects, provide basic health care, create jobs, assist homeless children, and encourage local and state governments to…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Pierce, Steven D. – Grassroots Development, 1995
The Fundacion Social, a grassroots organization in Colombia, uses profits from its 14 companies to fund community self-help initiatives aimed at eliminating poverty. Social programs focus on community integration, microbusinesses, recycling, education, and communication. The organization seeks to eliminate structural poverty and is currently…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Programs, Cooperative Planning
