ONE (SINGAPORE) MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
 

 
 

 

On 2 April, leaders from the twenty richest nations - the G20 - meet in London to discuss the global recession.  GCAP will carry the voices of 117 million people to these meetings and will urge leaders to:

  • Urgently address the food and energy crisis
  • Honour and accelerate the delivery of promises;
  • Ensure that the poor do not for the folly of the richest;
  • Empower women and children, who are most directly affected by rising costs.

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EVERY THREE SECONDS A CHILD DIES FROM EXTREME POVERTY

“Almost half the world’s population lives on less than two dollars a day, yet even this statistic fails to capture the humiliation, powerlessness and brutal hardship that is the daily lot of the world’s poor.”

Former UN Secretarial General Kofi Annan

“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.”

Nelson Mandela

Ours is the first generation that can create abundance and eradicate poverty. ONE by ONE . . . by ONE, we can Make Poverty History

It’s Time We Do Something About It… Together! Join us!

 

117 MILLION PEOPLE STAND UP!!
Nearly Two Percent of world Population
Guinness Record Shattered

Financial crisis or not, tens of millions around the world - including 14,514 in Singapore - have demanded that world leaders take urgent action to end poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
 
 

 

Foreign workers - some swindled by unscrupulous employment agents, others injured on the job - are stuck in administrative limbo.

They live in squalid conditions, sleeping on footpaths exposed to the elements with no privacy or even a place to bathe.

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ONE (SINGAPORE) 2015 Countdown Clock
Show world leaders exactly how long they have left, person by person, second by second, to meet the promise of the Millenium Development Goals.