var markers = [
{
'abbr': 'Hunger',
'name': '
NIGER - Successive poor harvests put more than 3.5 million Nigeriens - about 20 percent of the country\'s population - at risk for chronic malnutrition and other dire health problems. Children suffer the most.',
'latitude':17.610991,
'longitude':8.08094,
'wp':'http://www.globalcitizencorps.org/issues.htm?page=issues_hunger'
},
{
'abbr': 'HIV/AIDS',
'name': '
ZIMBABWE - Seventeen year old Lynotte is one of Zimbabwes 1.1 million AIDS orphans. He is among the 83 percent of Zimbabweans who live on less than $2 a day.',
'latitude':-19.013281,
'longitude':29.14666,
'wp':'http://www.globalcitizencorps.org/issues.htm?page=issues_hivaids'
},
{
'abbr': 'Climate Change',
'name': '
INDONESIA - The most vulnerable communities today will be the most severely impacted by changing climate patterns. In Indonesia, these threats loom for those who are still recovering from the 2004 tsunami.',
'latitude':0.10974,
'longitude':113.917397,
'wp':'http://www.globalcitizencorps.org/issues.htm?page=issues_climate'
},
{
'abbr': 'Education',
'name': '
CHINA - Hu Yan has been out of school for 2 years. She is one of the 150 million people in China migrating from the countryside to cities in search of jobs and an education.',
'latitude':39.90601,
'longitude':116.387909,
'wp':'http://www.globalcitizencorps.org/issues.htm?page=issues_education'
},
{
'abbr': 'Water',
'name': '
JORDAN - Jordan has one of the worlds lowest levels of water resource availability per person – making it difficult for farmers to water their flocks and sustain their livelihoods. ',
'latitude':31.1847,
'longitude':35.7047,
'wp':'http://www.globalcitizencorps.org/issues.htm?page=issues_water'
}
];