Halveer de armoede in de wereld: deadline 2015!!

16 June 2007 2 min read

In our luxury homes, food, clothing etc we forget that more than 2 billion people (that's more than one third of the total population) lives in extreme poverty. Extreme poverty means that you have less than one dollar to spend a day. 2 Billion people who do not have unlimited possibilities but have to fight for their lives every day. It is probably hard to imagine ( found it hard) but here are some extra facts about poverty for you:

One third of the human population has less than 2 dollars to spend a day
880 million people have no access to medical care
Of all children in the world two third receives no eduction and no food

All countries in the world signed a agreement to reduce poverty by the year 2015. For this they made an agreement on 8 goals. These goals are:

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop a global partnership for development

Are these goals realistic? Well I think they are but well have to work on it. Financially it is even very easy to realise the goals. Just think about that we, on an anual basis spend:

50 billion on cigarettes (Europe)
11 billion on ice cream
105 billion on alcohol
8 billion on cosmetics (U.S.)
and more than 1000 billion on military.

Watch the confronting movie totally in black and just with lines and speech. I ask the Dutch blogosphere to all put this movie on their blog and help the world become aware of the problems around poverty.

More information see Millennium Campaign