The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty has been observed every year since 1993, when the United Nations designated this day to promote awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and destitution in all countries, particularly in developing countries - a need that has become a development priority.
At the Millennium Summit, world leaders committed themselves to cutting by half by the year 2015 the number of people living in extreme poverty - people whose income is less than one dollar a day.
Resources
- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Find out more about International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
- Poverty Alliance
A membership organisation which acts as the national anti-poverty network in Scotland, working with voluntary organisations, policy makers and politicians at Scottish, UK and European levels.
- Climate Change, Poverty and Women
Suitable for ages 13-16, this set of resources from Oxfam places the focus of the impact of climate change on the world's poor and challenges learners to understand climate change as a controversial and contemporary human crisis that requires engagement and action.
- Make Poverty History campaign
Explanation of some of the issues behind the Make Poverty History Campaign and why it is so important, on the Oxfam's Cool Planet website for young people.
- Practical Action
This charity publishes a series of free leaflets for pupils about the technology-based project work of Intermediate Technology. They look at projects in Nepal, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and the UK.
- British Red Cross - Food and hunger briefing
This briefing is designed to help teachers understand the issue of food security.
- British Red Cross - Food in Africa
This lively, fast-moving, photo and video-based lesson provides a chance to reflect on some of the complex factors affecting access to food in a global world, in particular looking at the effects of conflict.
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