Make Poverty History – More Shocking Facts
Being Anti-Poverty Week, I thought it pertinent to highlight further shocking facts published in the Make Poverty History booklet:
- Each year, 17 million people die of diseases that we know how to cure.
- It is estimated that if the price of the 10 most important tropical commodities such cocoa, sugar and cotton, had risen with real inflation, the countries that produce these goods would have earned almost 5 times the total world annual aid budget in 2002.
- 20% of aid promised by the European Union arrives more than a year late – a year in which 11 million children will die unnecessarily.
So I urge you to Stand Up and Speak Out against poverty and inequality!
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