Fifteen-year-old pupils gathered at Uncle Tom’s Hall in Orlando West to urge their leaders to take action.
This was part of the ONE Action/2015 campaign which thrives to eradicate hunger, poverty, inequality and dangerous climate change.
According to new research, almost a billion extra people face a life of extreme poverty if leaders duck key decisions on poverty, inequality and climate change due to be taken at two crucial summits in New York and Paris later this year, with billions more continuing to face a life of hardship.
That is the warning by more than a thousand organisations around the world.
More than 100 pupils were part of the thousand global development aid and philanthropic organisations campaign at Uncle Tom’s Hall.
Together, they were calling on local and world leaders to take urgent action to halt man-made climate change, eradicate poverty and address inequality, and to fight, with concrete measures, for a just and sustainable world.
The young pupils made a pledge which read: “This year, I’m standing with millions of global citizens to demand that we do all we can to end extreme poverty, eradicate preventable disease, and fight for (The change you wish to see). We can build a better world, and in 2015 we will demand better of our leaders,”.
The young people were given the opportunity to voice out their views and also to voice out what kind of world they want to live in.
Minister of Sports and Recreation Fikile Mbalula had a conversation with the young people about Millennium Development Goals.
