President Barack Obama & World Poverty

 

by Deborah Miarkowska

President Barack Obama is already giving signs that he is committed to the fight against extreme poverty.In his inaugural address yesterday, he said:

“To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world’s resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it”.
Please take a moment to send a thank you note to President Obama for his commitment and let him know that the world is watching, and hoping to see him follow through on his plans:

The administration’s new website, Whitehouse.gov, goes even further to spell out what we can expect from President Obama:

Obama and Biden will embrace the Millennium Development Goal of cutting extreme poverty and hunger around the world in half by 2015, and they will double our foreign assistance to achieve that goal. This will help the world’s weakest states build healthy and educated communities, reduce poverty, develop markets, and generate wealth.
U.S. ONE members have been working for a long time to encourage Obama to make these commitments. During the campaign, more than 100,000 members successfully urged then-Senator Obama to go “On the Record” with his commitments to fighting global poverty and preventable disease. Then another 100,000 strong petitioned him to make a statement about extreme poverty in his inaugural address and with his first budget request. Now that he’s in office, we’ll be working hard to encourage him to turn these historic commitments into action.

Perhaps there is something we can all take from yesterdays historical events when President Obama invited all Americans to make a difference, perhaps we all can?

Deborah Miarkowska

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