UN chief Ban Ki-moon has announced that he plans to co-host a UN meeting on poverty with the president of the (UN) General Assembly.
The meeting will take place on September 25th, during the general debate of the UN General Assembly which runs from September 23 to October 3.
September seems like far off, but hopefully it will give them time to plan the meeting and make it more effective.
The United Nations adopted eight goals “Millennium Development Goals” in 2000. One goal included halving the amount of people in extreme poverty and halving the number of people who suffer from world hunger by 2015. At the current rate, the world will not achieve the goals.
The world has enough resources to provide food, clothing, clean water, healthcare, and education for everyone in the world. I hope the people of the world start making it a priority to end poverty. We can do it. I hope we do.