BUTTERFLY HURRICANES
Here is some information and lists of organizations about the issues addressed in each artwork. Please click on the links to learn more.
Education Inequities
It is universally agreed that providing a quality education gives students a chance to excel, both in school and in life. Increasingly, children’s success in school determines their success as adults, determining whether and where they go to college, what professions that they enter, and how much they are paid. There are many factors preventing education from serving this role as “the great equalizer.” Schools serving low-income students receive fewer resources, face greater difficulties attracting qualified teachers, face many more challenges in addressing student’s needs, and receive less support from parents. This inequality of school quality is widely recognized.
Economic Policy Institute
Center for American Progress
United Nations – Education for All
Volunteers of America
Peace Corps
Hunger
The causes of hunger are many and varied. Some are of natural origin, drought, crop pests, natural disasters; others are created by humans, for example by war or over exploitation of natural resources essential to food production. Yet the most important causes of hunger have their roots in economic, social and political factors, having to do with the ways in which the production and distribution of food are organized in the world.
Feeding America
Child Hunger Ends Here
World Food Programme
Global Issues
Plastics Pollution
Plastic creates toxic pollution at every stage of its existence: manufacture, use, and disposal. Plastic is a material that the Earth cannot digest. Every bit of plastic that has ever been created still exists, including the small amount that has been incinerated and has become toxic particulate matter. In the environment, plastic breaks down into small particles that attract toxic chemicals. These particles are ingested by wildlife on land and in the ocean, contaminating the food chain. Harmful chemicals leached by plastics are present in the bloodstream and tissues of almost every one of us, including newborns.
5 Gyres
Plastic Pollution Coalition
Plastic-Free Guide
Green Mary
Surfrider Foundation