International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

July 28, 2007 on 4:12 am | In family | 2 Comments

Who knew? There’s a www.Oct17.org, which is the home page for an apparently European effort to get a lot of people to sign a “Call to Action” that involves some vague sort of personal commitment to end extreme poverty. They have a podcast, which highlights the plodding difficulty of getting signatures from public officials and private citizens.

Poking around their site — a sort of cousin of this one, I supposed — I discover that Oct 17 became an official sort of day because of a UN resolution.

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  1. Plus there’s always the Loma Prieta earthquake anniversary…

    Comment by Raines — July 28, 2007 #

  2. Thank you for your comment about this special day. Today is the 20th anniversary of the World day to overcome poverty. Indeed we have this day in common. The 2nd common point is the fact that it’s a love story as well. A story of trust contract between 2 persons for you and rich and poor for us. With the hope that in this union, there could be finally only one humanity in this world.
    For a world full of the richness of everyone.
    (Sorry for my english) Thank you and happy anniversary!

    Comment by Oct17.org — October 17, 2007 #

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