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Students with WINGS fight for natural resources
Johanna Wallner
Issue date: 2/23/07 Section: News
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Condoms can reduce poverty and save trees. More specifically, providing access to reproductive health in the developing world is crucial to decreasing impoverishment and conserving the planet's natural resources.
This was the underlying theme at two similar but separate events, both the Feb. 14 Green and Pink party, a fundraiser for the Seattle based non-governmental organization One by One, and a Latin American Studies presentation by the non-governmental organization Women's International News Gathering Service (WINGS) on Feb. 15.
Here at UPS, amongst the climate of international political economy, the wide variety of international study abroad programs and the increasing percentage of UPS graduates partaking in international volunteer programs like the Peace Corps, the issue of underdevelopment has become a common topic for discussion.
Senior Adrienne Lee attended both presentations. She is president of Voices for Planned Parenthood, VOX, and glad to assist in sponsoring events like these that introduce these issues to the entire campus community.
"A university is an ideal place for students and community activists," Lee said. "Activism and education often unifies young people."
According to the United Nations, women do two-thirds of the world's work, earn ten percent of the world's income and own one percent of the world's property. As a result, it is a common acknowledgement that an investment in women is an investment in development.
Poverty is commonly a result of overpopulation, which threatens the world's natural resources. As a result, reducing population growth is imperative to minimizing poverty and protecting natural resources.
In the developing world, women primarily do household chores like fetching water and gathering firewood and food. When their natural resources become scarce or polluted, it is the women's job to find new sources of clean water, firewood and food. Thus, their role becomes crucial to management and protection of natural resources.
This was the underlying theme at two similar but separate events, both the Feb. 14 Green and Pink party, a fundraiser for the Seattle based non-governmental organization One by One, and a Latin American Studies presentation by the non-governmental organization Women's International News Gathering Service (WINGS) on Feb. 15.
Here at UPS, amongst the climate of international political economy, the wide variety of international study abroad programs and the increasing percentage of UPS graduates partaking in international volunteer programs like the Peace Corps, the issue of underdevelopment has become a common topic for discussion.
Senior Adrienne Lee attended both presentations. She is president of Voices for Planned Parenthood, VOX, and glad to assist in sponsoring events like these that introduce these issues to the entire campus community.
"A university is an ideal place for students and community activists," Lee said. "Activism and education often unifies young people."
According to the United Nations, women do two-thirds of the world's work, earn ten percent of the world's income and own one percent of the world's property. As a result, it is a common acknowledgement that an investment in women is an investment in development.
Poverty is commonly a result of overpopulation, which threatens the world's natural resources. As a result, reducing population growth is imperative to minimizing poverty and protecting natural resources.
In the developing world, women primarily do household chores like fetching water and gathering firewood and food. When their natural resources become scarce or polluted, it is the women's job to find new sources of clean water, firewood and food. Thus, their role becomes crucial to management and protection of natural resources.
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