World Poverty Day: 1.4 Billion Reasons

Launched at a high-level UN Summit in 2008, 1.4 Billion Reasons was put together by expert advisors, including Hugh Jackman and Jeffrey Sachs. Inspired by the impact of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, 1.4 Billion Reasons demonstrates that progress has been made in efforts to address extreme poverty and aims to re-inspire and equip individuals to take action. The vision of the Global Poverty Project (http://globalpovertyproject.com/) is of a world without extreme poverty within a generation.

There are 1.4 billion people in the world living in extreme poverty. That's 1.4 billion people living on less than $1.25 a day.

The Global Poverty Project has developed a multi-media presentation, 1.4 Billion Reasons, that is travelling the globe engaging and inspiring audiences to understand and get involved in the movement to end extreme poverty.

The presentation is built around five sections:

• What is extreme poverty?
• Can we do anything about it?
• What are the barriers to ending extreme poverty?
• Why should we care?
• What can I do?

1.4 Billion Reasons has been tailored to specific audience groups and delivered by expert presenters for between 45 and 90 minutes in workplaces, schools, universities, faith groups, community groups and at conferences to audiences of 100+ 

Please join us tomorrow...