The Global Poverty Project - you are invited!

Hi everyone,

Are you ALL ready?

The countdown is on to the Global Poverty Project’s launch of ‘1.4 billion reasons’! - 45 presentations in 42 days…

As you may have heard or noticed on the Youtube Featured page, '1.4 billion reasons' is a thought provoking presentation that encourages audiences to make simple changes to their lifestyles, enabling the world’s poorest to break the poverty cycle.



The challenges of poverty, hunger and disease loom large in the lives of hundreds of millions, exacerbated by rising fuel and food prices, triggering inflation that hurts those in extreme poverty the most. The astonishing and continued growth of China and India mask the reality that the world’s poorest billion people – those living on less than one dollar a day – remain on the edge of existence. The world has fallen significantly behind our goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015, yet the world’s attention and cameras have moved away from the issue.

With seven years to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, we are in urgent need of a reminder of the challenges of extreme poverty, and the opportunities and necessity of more concerted and effective action to support improved livelihoods for the poorest billion people on our planet.

The Global Poverty Project will catalyse the international movement to end extreme poverty by creating a 90 minute feature slideshow that clearly but deeply communicates the challenges and opportunities of extreme poverty, and what can be done about it. It will be simple yet sophisticated, accessible for every person and grounded in best practice and scientific knowledge.

The GPP will present on how your everyday actions – in what you learn, say, buy, give and do - is connected to ending extreme poverty. Small actions at your end can create big opportunities for the world’s poorest.

We are excited to present the info for the Sydney launch event:
10th July 2009
7 - 11pm
The Barnett Long Room, Customs House
Alfred Street Circular Quay


We look forward to seeing you at this exciting event!

Places are limited so you MUST RSVP by 30 June 2009 to secure your place to: sydney.rsvp@globalpovertyproject.com

Don’t forget to invite your friends and family and RSVP for them too!

This event is a FREE event. Check: out the FB invite at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119722557994

To everyone at Usyd, you guys will be lucky enough to have the GPP come to you! Keep an eye out for more info and save the 10th of August.

Hope you can all make it – we’ll be there for sure!