Helping kids like Abdul.

AuthorKristof, Nicholas D.
PositionAbdul Quadar

We need to wage a global war on poverty. If the 2004 tsunami demonstrated how generous Americans could be, it also showed the blindness of a system that responds to natural, disasters but neglects ongoing suffering. In northwest Sri Lanka, for example, people have been riving in shantytowns for 15 years, displaced by civil war, yet they have not gotten half the help that has gone to tsunami victims. If we are to help kids tike Abdul Quadar [below]...

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