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38 Million Speak Out for World Poverty Day
Last week over 38 million people around the world stood up to end poverty. It was World Poverty Day, and people spoke out against poverty in over 7,000 events in 110 different countries. In New York City people crouched down and then stood up together as a way to stand up and speak out. In Pakistan, people unfurled the biggest banner ever made against poverty. In Mexico, 40,000 kids held a rally.
The people at these events were trying to let the world know that over one billion people live in extreme poverty. 1.4 billion people don't have access to clean water to drink.
The UN Millennium Project has set a goal of cutting the number of people living in poverty in half by the year 2015. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that to succeed we need to train more teachers, nurses, and engineers, and that we should help poor countries to develop more to create jobs and raise incomes for the poor.
Another goal of the Millennium project is to stress equality between boys and girls. In some places girls don't get the same education that boys do.
Last year 23 million people stood up against poverty. This year's 38 million shattered that record. Hopefully, by 2015 as more citizens stand up they will help more people avoid a life of extreme poverty.
I'm Michelle and that's what happened in the world this week.
Let's play the pinpoint game and locate some of the countries that took part in the fight against poverty.
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