United Nations Development Group

Today, children across Asia are taking a few minutes of their time to wash their hands. It’s the highlight of a campaign organised by the United Nations children agency UNICEF to promote one of the most cost-effective forms of preventive healthcare.

Today’s Geo Quiz is about money. We Americans aren’t feeling very wealthy right now. Most of us are a lot wealthier still than most of the world’s 6.8 billion people. Most of them are poor. We want to know which are the 5 poorest countries of the world?

North Korea is allowing workers from the UN’s World Food Program to inspect areas of the country where food is scarce, and Stephen Haggard, author of “Famine in North Korea”

International aid experts say millions of people around the world are being pushed deeper into poverty and hunger by high food prices, but the aid groups that traditionally help to feed the hungry are also feeling the pinch