WE CARE!!!
Because . . .
- Almost 1 Billion people around the world are hungry (i.e. having insufficient food to sustain life);
- Over 2.5 Billion people lack access to clean water and/or proper sanitation;
- More people die annually from poverty related causes than AIDS, TB, malaria, natural disasters, and conflict COMBINED;
- Woman & children die needlessly during child birth and early childhood due to lack of basic medical care;
- Lack of education entrenches the poverty cycle; and
- Poverty exists in every nation in the world.
. . . and WE believe there are Basic Human Rights whereby EVERYONE has . . .
- sufficient food;
- clean water and sanitation;
- adequate shelter;
- access to basic education; and
- access to primary medical care.
WE, the undersigned, call upon all leaders EVERYWHERE to work together in a non-partisan, non-political manner to ensure that NO ONE GOES WITHOUT food, water and sanitation, shelter, basic education or primary medical care on their watch.