UN anti-poverty campaigner wants better education for Pacific children

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Updated September 24, 2009 16:58:19

A United Nations anti-poverty campaigner says the Pacific islands have relatively few desperately poor or hungry people, but more effort needs to be put into things like education. Minar Pimple, Deputy Director for Asia of the United Nations Millennium Campaign says the definition of poverty is that someone earns less than one dollar and twenty five cents US a day, or doesn't get enough food to eat, and that may not cover many Pacific people. He addressed a Make Poverty History rally in Melbourne on Thursday as part of the Millennium Campaign's effort to draw attention to the issue of global poverty. Mr Pimple says the world is now capable of ending abject poverty, and the Pacific can play a vital role in that.

Presenter: Bruce Hill
Speaker: Minar Pimple, Deputy Director for Asia of the United Nations Millennium Campaign

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