Some perspective please Harvard....

(This is from my girlfriend Rosemarie, quoting the Harvard article and the newsfeeds...)

we are working hard to minimise the impact of the global financial downturn....


“disproportionately affected…”
“[due to the economic crisis]..the World Bank estimates that high food and energy prices have pushed another 100 million people into poverty this year alone.”

“suffered…”
A further 22 million women could fall into unemployment this year as a result of the current global economic crisis, the International Labour Office (ILO) has predicted.
http://www.twnside.org.sg/women.htm

“It was a big shock…. Not getting their nutrients – a solid meal”
For the first time, more than 1 billion people are chronically hungry, according to the U.N. FAO…Malnutrition is also the underlying cause of 3 million child deaths each year.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/AMMF-7WMS6D?OpenDocument&query=food%20crisis


“the loss is especially hard…”
“f the global economy were to rebound in 2010, sub-Saharan Africa would still be one of the world's poorest and most vulnerable regions, and have more than half its food insecure people, says an examination of the impact of the economic slowdown on food security.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85293


“despite its budget problems, Harvard has increased financial aid to students to $145 million this year”
Non-profit organisations and NGOs are laying off staff and cutting back aid programmes as the global recession bites, and the prospects for 2010 also look bleak… "In 2009, we’re estimating that giving from foundations will decline in the range of the high single digits to the low double digits," said Steven Lawrence, senior director of research at the Foundation Center, a leading US authority on philanthropy, noting that foundation assets declined double that amount, almost 22 percent, in 2008.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=84023


“We understand we have to give up something,” Mx. Flores said. “But students want to be able to say what they’re willing to give up and what they want to protect. As long as that’s part of the discussion, I think the process can be done peacefully.”
Tensions have remained high in Akobo County of Jonglei State, Southern Sudan, a week after inter-ethnic clashes left at least 185 people, mainly women and children, dead.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85669