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DEVELOPMENT REPORT :UN Honors Six Anti-Poverty
Broadcast: November 18, 2002
This is the VOA Special English Development
Report.
The United Nations Development Program recently
observed the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The goal
was to improve living conditions for the more than one-thousand-million
poor people around the world who live on less than one dollar a day.
More than fifty nations held special events.
For example, sports events were held in Togo. In Vietnam, there was
a group discussion about poverty and violence in the home.
The UN Development Program also honored six
individuals who have worked throughout their lives to fight poverty
in their communities. One of those honored was Edi Rama, the mayor of
Tirana, Albania. He helped launch an environmental program to clean
up the Lana River. The program is called Clean and Green. It has also
helped reduce the number of unemployed people
in the Albanian capital.
Maqsood Sinha and Iftekhar Enayetullah were
also honored. These two men have formed a non-governmental organization
in Bangladesh called Waste Concern. It helps communities turn organic
waste into fertilizer using a simple technology.
Grace Dotou was honored for her work in Benin.
She has trained unemployed girls and women to
collect used plastic bags and make useful products from them. The fifth
person honored by the UN
Development Program is from Chile. Pablo Sandor started an organization
that helps communities develop businesses while still protecting the
land. He also has established an environmental high school and a research
center. The sixth person honored was Aref Kodeih. He has launched several
environmental programs in Lebanon that have helped more than four-hundred-thousand
people.
The UN Development Program also gave a special
award to the head of MAC cosmetics company John Demsey. He was honored
for his work in the fight against the disease AIDS. He has given all
the profits from one of his company's products to a special AIDS program.
The UN Development Program hopes to end poverty
around the world by 2005. However, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says
this could be especially difficult in parts of the Middle East, Africa
and Latin America. The number of people living in poverty in those areas
has increased over the past three years.
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