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In 1992, the UN General Assembly, welcoming the fact
that certain Non Governmental Organizations on the initiative of one of them
(the French based International Movement A-T.D. fourth World) had in many
states observed 17th October every year as a world day for
overcoming Extreme Poverty, Declared that date as the International day for
the Eradication of Poverty under (resolution 47/196 of December). The
observance aims 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.
In this forward GLOPEC has also marked this day as the
General Assembly for GLOPEC which will pronounce poverty Eradication
activities for the coming centuries.
Series of activities are being planed for the
celebration of this day in the form of seminars in schools, the general
Assembly meeting , CSO think-thank meetings, community women and girls
meeting, honoring of awards and finally lunching the coming Annual and
strategic (8) Eight-year Health Project which is aimed at improving results
before 2015.
Targeted Areas are:
There is the need to make the world know that this is
not a far away country issue and that poor African Countries stand the
chance to loose a lot of poverty is not carefully eradicated.
It is important for us all to understand that 75% of these related
diseases and death occur between the most economically active segment of a
countries population of which Ghana is a major Target. |
