All were past or current recipients of MCF's Sargent Shriver Youth Warriors Against Poverty Leadership Award, which honors young activists for their vision, passion and dedication to improving the lives of families and communities.
The initiative is intended to help lift survivors out of poverty as it honors the memory of the victims of the genocide.
Her life sheds light on the struggles of single parents raising children in poverty, and I am honored to have known her".
When I took up his mantle in some small way by serving as a founding member of a national anti-poverty organization, he honored me and the work by serving on our Advisory board.
Like almost every other backpacker I met, I wore my assumed poverty as a badge of honor, and like a veteran comparing war wounds, spent my evenings with others sharing stories about the cheapest meals or longest hitchhike.
The nation cannot afford to ignore these realities any longer, as it's crippling our future: one in five kids in America is growing up in poverty, giving us the dubious honor of having the highest child poverty rate amongst our peer nations.
When Pat Brown began his governorship, Jerry was twenty and a Jesuit novice, honoring vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Among the documentaries that were honored were "Why Poverty?," a collection of eight films that were shown around the world, including on PBS in the United States; "MLK: The Assassination Tapes," which was broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel; and "Sheikh Jarrah, My Neighborhood," a film shown on Al Jazeera.
The event, which honors people fighting poverty in New York, showed that both liberals and conservatives can be compassionate when a Hero award and a $50,000 check were presented to Daliah Heller, executive director of CitiWide Harm Reduction, a needle exchange program meant to prevent the spread of H.I.V.
In the honor-based culture and poverty of the rural areas, many young men join al Qaeda to make a living, and to avenge their families.
