Poverty kills 50,000 people every day

At the start of the 21st century, 1.2 billion people live in abject poverty. More than 800 million people go to bed hungry and 50,000 people die every day from poverty-related causes.

Poverty exists because of the choices we make. It exists because we have:
- insufficient and ineffective aid
- an unjust global trade system
- a debt burden for poor countries that is so great that it suffocates any chance of recovery
- an unwillingness to invest enough in social development

It doesn't have to be this way. If we choose - if we have the will to act - we can make poverty history.

http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca

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