End Poverty?

It’s been a loooong time since we started to “make poverty history” or lobbied the G8, G20, G100 and every other gathering. Poverty has become a reality of our time and a part of the future of our children. Since we launched the Millennium Development Goals, 11 years ago, how many of these have been achieved?

Have we truly made steps to eradicate poverty? When we visit such places as Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Columbia we see that is not the case. Let me ask you something else: do you think we have managed to eradicate poverty in our own countries – Europe, America, Australia, New Zealand or Japan?

We want to achieve this not by talking, but by doing. Our boardrooms are full to the brim, while people out there build houses out of dust and mud.  We dust our bags, our offices, our homes, while people have dust in their food, drink, breath and life.

If we won t make poverty history, we have to start sharing what we have at home with the people whose real life is history.