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Poverty Education Program

 

The Global Poverty Project's vision is a world where extreme poverty doesn’t exist.

We're working to make this vision a reality – by educating and mobilising citizens worldwide with our ground-breaking educational presentation 1.4 Billion Reasons, and providing audiences with easy everyday actions they can take to reduce the number of people living in extreme poverty.

In Australia, the Global Poverty Project we are building the movement to end extreme poverty with our world-class Poverty Education Program.

We’re travelling the nation and educating students about extreme poverty – giving Australian youth the knowledge and resources they need to become leaders in the movement to end extreme poverty.

Funds raised during our new poverty awareness campaign Live Below the Line will be used to reach additional schools, and inspire grassroots initiatives like the 250km fundraising trek that Mount Beauty Secondary students Lachie Ranton and Jack Simpson organised to engage their community and raise over $5,000 for Oxfam Australia’s overseas development projects.

Every $200 raised during Live Below the Line will allow us to travel to another school, and inspire 100 Australian youths.

Over one thousand Australians will Live Below the Line from August 2nd - 6th. support their efforts, and help us reach our target of inspiring 50,000 additional Australian students in the next 12 months, you can donate here.

*If you would like to book 1.4 Billion Reasons for your school, please fill in our booking form. You can find more information about the schools presentation here.

Posted by Renee Carr - GPP AU Marketing & Communications Manager in for column 1.4 Billion Reasons on Jul 18th 2010, 16:46

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I rcoekn you are quite dead on with that.
21/03/12 2:40pm - Posted By James - Reply to this comment
Well, with the cost of living aaylws rising and wages pretty much not, it becomes over the course of time very difficult to live off $1.50 a day, given for example the fact that in London, Ontario, and other major Canadian cities, an adult cash fare bus ticket is $2.75 cents one way. Also staples for a healthy diet namely fruit and vegetables and other expenses such as gas, hydro, coffee, clothing and basically almost everything else have recently been reported in the news as having increased quite dramatically and over a short time in their price . BUT it is possible to recycle coffee grounds and of course, we cannot forget the advice we received a number of years back to tighten our belts and to not complain about but to rather eat the dinted cans of tuna and be happy to have these things. I suppose we are pretty much in the lap of luxury though compared to those people who must walk for miles just for putrid water, so I guess poverty and hardship are all a matter of our perspective and what we are used to or what we consider acceptable standards of living ourselves and others on this planet we must all share.This is an acceptable and rational answer, but damn it, why is everything getting so darn expensive!?!!!!
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