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Guatemala
Tuesday September 16, 2008
Time Machines
Posted by: Rick Perera at 12:29PM EST on September 16, 2008
My first lesson in the realities of poverty and global inequality came on a trip to Guatemala when I was four years old.  My father, a doctor, had volunteered for a rural medical project, and brought his young family along.

The country was a riot of unfamiliar colors, smells, and sounds for a child’s senses.  The joyfully clattering melodies of the marimba.  The bustling marketplaces, where meat came not wrapped in cellophane, but on two or four legs.  The destinations called out in sing-song voices by boys hanging precariously from brightly painted buses. “Gua-te, Gua-te, Gua-te-ma-la!” they’d shout, as they departed for the capital.  I had no idea that these children, only a few years older than I, worked to help their families survive, at the price of a missed education.


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Thursday April 24, 2008
A Nutty Idea that Just Might Work
Posted by: Laura Bellinger at 2:50PM EST on April 24, 2008

“Extreme poverty can be ended in our lifetime.”

If you believe this, you are:

a) Optimistic bordering on delusional.

b) A rock star with a cause.

c) A liberal policy wonk.

d) A level-headed realist who believes humans have the capacity and creativity to solve tough problems.

Maybe ending poverty isn’t such a nutty idea.

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