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Poverty.com

www.poverty.com

This website focuses on poverty, hunger, and preventable disease. It publicizes seven of the leading forms of illness and disease throughout the developing world. In rank of mortality, they are hunger, AIDS, pneumonia, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and measles.

It notes that “someone — most often a baby or a child — is dying for these reasons every ten seconds.” This website has symbolic pictures and names of individuals dying as you watch. It also has links to approximately 70 websites of international organizations that are trying to make positive differences in various aspects of this crisis.

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