Halveer de armoede in de wereld: deadline 2015!!

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

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