YOUTH CAMPAIGNERS MEET VICE PRESIDENT DR. MUHAMMAD BILAL IN DAR-ES-SALAAM

  Vice President of Tanzania, Dr Gharib Bilal answering youth questions.

       

 Deputy Minister of Culture, Information, Sports and Youth, Juma Nkamia welcoming Vice President Dr Bilal. 

   Dr Sipho Moyo, ONE Afrika Executive Director giving opening remarks at action/2015 launch

   Margaret Mliwa, Restless Development Country Director speaking at the event.

 Some of the youth telling the Vice President their priorities    .

 According to new research, almost a billion extra people face a life of extreme poverty if leaders do not make key decisions on poverty, inequality and climate change at two crucial summits in New York and Paris later this year.

That's the warning by more than a thousand organisations around the world which are launching a new campaign called action/2015, calling on local and world leaders to take urgent action to halt man-made climate change, eradicate poverty and address inequality.

The new calculation released by the action/2015 coalition shows that the number of people living in extreme poverty – on less than $1.25 a day – could be reduced dramatically from over a billion to 360 million by 2030.

However, if leaders fail to deliver and build on the growing momentum for ambitious deals at the UN Special Summit on Sustainable Development in September and the UN Climate talks in Paris in December, and scale back their efforts, the number of people living in extreme poverty could actually increase to 1.2 billion by 2030. This increase would be the first in a generation (since 1993) and almost a billion higher (886million) than if resolute action is taken. Under this scenario, 1 in 3 of the world’s population would live under $2 a day.

Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Prize winner who put her life on the line for the right to education said; 

“2015 must be the year the world wakes up and delivers a safer, more just future for children and young people. We all must play our part in ensuring this is the case. Do not let this opportunity go to waste.”

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