Too many of the world's poor children starve needlessly or go without education because too many impoverished nations -- even after the laudable debt relief provided to date -- are still funneling scarce resources to multilateral banks instead of paying for needs at home. - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
As the United States struggles to recover from the economic crisis, impoverished countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America face a triple threat: the current global economic crisis comes on top of an existing debt crisis and a food crisis that has been raging for the past year. Millions of people have lost the means to feed themselves and their families, and dozens of countries face the possibility of social unrest due to lack of access to basic necessities. Come explore the connections between what we are feeling at home and its connection to how it feels abroad. Debt cancellation for the world