By IAN FENTON
HAVE you ever wondered what you could do to help people living in poverty but haven’t been sure where to start? 1.4 Billion Reasons, a presentation brought to the University of Canberra by the Global Poverty Project and the Oaktree Foundation will not only motivate you to want change but will also show you how can help affect it.
The presentation will be held this Wednesday at 12.30pm in the UCU theatre in the Hub and is an event you should not miss
The presentation will lay out the hard facts of extreme poverty and present statistics and case studies from United Nations approved researchers that bring home the seriousness of global poverty.
It will also demonstrate how each of us can make small changes that contribute to achievement of the UN millennium development goals.
Global Poverty Project adviser and Wolverine portrayer Hugh Jackman has joined in the project to reenergize the movement towards the millennium development goals.
“In the year 2000 189 of the world’s leaders made a promise to improve the lives of the world’s poorest by the year 2015,” Jackman said. “Nine years on and 1.4 billion people still live in extreme poverty.”
The project is also supported by Minister for Foreign Affairs Stephen Smith and Member for Fraser and Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance Bob McMullan.
Smith said Australia shared the same ambition as the Global Poverty Project and is happy to support the initiative.
“It is within our capacity to send more children to primary school, to cut child mortality rates… to give more communities clean water and to stop more people from dying from preventable diseases,” he said.
Based on leading research the 90 minute presentation clearly articulates the facts of extreme poverty and how by making simple changes everyone can be a part of the solution.
The presentation will be shown in the UCU theatre on Wednesday 5 August at 12.30. The UCU theatre can be found between the Mizzuna Café and the old UCU bar.
For more information go to www.globalpovertyproject.com
To RSVP for the event just send an email to act-gpp@theOaktree.org.
