World charity and aid leaders have come together to persuade governments to help fight against poverty. These leaders created a declaration with suggestions to pool the world’s money into a fund that will help the impoverished. One such suggestion is to cut down on military spending and use that money for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) to decrease global poverty and increase health. Professor Phil Batterham of the University of Melbourne in Australia received a Twitter notification from U.S. President, Barack Obama who stated that “… the American combat mission in Iraq has ended.” This will prove beneficial when the government can spend less on their military and pour more of the funds into the MDG accounts. Also, some UN governments will reconvene in October to deliberate about the $20 billion (USD) fund that is designed to contend with devastating diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Most of the delegates at the meeting agreed with the declaration with only a few who opposed it.
If I had been part of this convention, I would have honestly, gladly and quickly agreed with the suggestions to improve the world’s poverty status. Taking money and allocating it specifically to the purposes of better education, health care, and the general well-being of all the world’s people is an incredible task, but it seems to me that it is a completely viable one. The article stated that to fund all of the MDGs, we would have to cut the annual military budget by a tenth. Clearly, the resources to reduce the inequality exist. The next question I have is whether or not they will actually follow through with it. It would be a great start to closing the gap and putting a dent into poverty.
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