By: Carolina Grogan

WORLD POVERTY PROJECT Our vision  A world without extreme poverty within a generation. How we achieve it Campaigning for government, business and consumer action that will create important systemic change for the world’s extreme poor. Building a movement that engages and educates people, and supports them to take simple but effective individual actions for change

OUR HISTORY Developed 1.4 Billion Reasons – a multimedia presentation that explains the issues that contribute to extreme poverty, and what everyday people can do about them. Spoken to more than 100,000 people on three continents about the simple actions they can take to help tackle extreme poverty. Helped launch the international advocacy and fundraising campaign Live Below the Line – engaging more than 24,000 people with the lack of choice inherent in extreme poverty, and raising more than $5 million for anti-poverty initiatives. Grown political support for polio eradication and raised more than $118 million for critical vaccination programs through The End of Polio campaign.

Launched the Global Citizen platform - a tool to help people take action to fight extreme poverty. Held the Global Citizen Festival - a massive advocacy concert held in Central Park, New York to coincide with the 2011 General Assembly. The event brought together 60,000 change makers, and artists like Neil Young with Crazy Horse, the Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, John Legend, Band of Horses and K’NAAN. Run in partnership with top charities, the event helped secure $1.3 billion in commitments for projects helping fight extreme poverty.

WHAT WE HAVE DONE!  What it means to live in extreme poverty  Why the world can end extreme poverty  The barriers to overcoming poverty Live Below the Line is an awareness and fundraising campaign that challenges people to feed themselves with the equivalent of the extreme poverty line. It aims to give participants personal insights into the lack of opportunity and choice available to people living in extreme poverty, and to open a window onto the challenges faced by those living in extreme poverty. This campaign focuses on sharing the story of progress towards polio eradication, while aiming to build public support and momentum required to close the funding gap that is limiting global eradication effortspolio eradication

THANKS TO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Global _ Poverty _project GlobalPovertyProject