Happy International Day for the Eradication of Poverty! Observed by Blog4dev, world Bank, YALI and FMJIG in Angola
This year's theme is “Building forward together: Ending Persistent Poverty, Respecting all People and our Planet.”
The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is an international observance celebrated each year on October 17 throughout the world. The observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty can be traced back to 17 October 1987. On that day, over a hundred thousand people gathered at the Trocadéro in Paris, where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948, to honour the victims of extreme poverty, violence and hunger. They proclaimed that poverty is a violation of human rights and affirmed the need to come together to ensure that these rights are respected.
The observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty in Angola.
In reference to the International Day for the eradication of poverty celebrated on October 17, the Global Peace Chain Ambassador Sofonie Dala has joined the YALI committee of Angola in partnership with the World Bank, Blog4dev, FMJIG and the Mindset office, to hold in this area, a roundtable conversation under the theme acting together for environmental resilience".
The objective was to address climate change in the process of poverty eradication and food production, as well as to analyze the current situation of social phenomena such as hunger and poverty in Angola.
Dozens of young people who worry about climate change and poverty joined the event that took place in Luanda Island Forest.
An excursion was held, in addition to the roundtable conversation where the prelector was the environmentalist José Silva, from the Ecological Youth association.
October 17th presents an opportunity to acknowledge the effort and struggle of people living in poverty, a chance for them to make their concerns heard, and a moment to recognize that poor people are the first ones to fight against poverty.
The World Bank (WB), which in 2013 had set a target of reducing extreme poverty to a maximum of three percent of the world's population by 2030, now states that the pandemic and global recession could cause more than three percent of 1.4 percent of the planet's inhabitants fall into this situation.
The goal established in 2013 became unattainable. This would require implementing significant policies and making substantial changes in the current world economic system.
The crisis caused by the new coronavirus “intensifies the vulnerabilities and inadequacies of the global food system”, which represents all the activities and processes of production, distribution and consumption of food.
As of 2021, over 17.6 million people in Angola lived in extreme poverty, with the poverty threshold at 1.90 U.S. dollars a day. The number of poor people in the country has been following an upward trend. In 2016, there were around 13 million Angolans in extreme poverty. By 2025, it would increase to 19.2 million.
October 17th is a date that forces deep reflections on the delicate moment that humanity is experiencing, marked by a pandemic that shook the world economy and accentuated the great gap between rich and poor.
The event also had the support of the forum of women journalists for gender equality, and had the active participation of the Ecological Youth of Angola.
Participation of the poor themselves has been at the center of the Day’s celebration since its very beginning. The commemoration of October 17 th also reflects the willingness of people living in poverty to use their expertise to contribute to the eradication of poverty.
The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty! Observed by Blog4dev, world Bank, YALI and FMJIG in Angola
