UN Millennium Development Goal No.1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty has been observed by the UN every year since 1993, when the General Assembly, by resolution 47/196, designated this day to promote awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and destitution in all countries, particularly in developing countries - a need that has become a development priority.

At the Millennium Summit world leaders committed themselves to cutting by half by the year 2015 the number of people living in extreme poverty - people whose income is less than one dollar a day.

The theme for this year’s International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - “Working together out of poverty” - highlights the need for a truly global anti-poverty alliance.

On Friday 16 October - the Food and Agriculture Organisation's International World Food Day -  the National Library South Africa and visiting members of Library & Information Association of South Africa-Gauteng North Branch stood in unison with over 100 million people mobilized under the slogan “Stand Up - Take Action” at events in more than 100 countries around the globe between 16 and 18 October to to pledge their support, and demand that world leaders do not use the financial crisis as an excuse for breaking the promises they made in 2000 to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

[Picture right: Ms Shadi Matsemela reads the pledge to take action, with Mrs Happy Mphahlele in attendance]

[Picture below: attendees of the LIASA-GN meeting dons the STAND UP TAKE ACTION t-shirts at the Pretoria campus of the NLSA to show their support]

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MDGs in 11 South African Languages
More info on MDGs
Annual report on MGDs

Participants and fellow librarians were encouraged by the FOP project leader, Mrs Happy Mphahlele to  pledge their support and to work together with government to bring attention to this goal.

[Pictures above: FOP staff joins the National Librarian of South Africa, Mr John K. Tsebe (far right on the left picture) showing their commitment to the MDG1 cause. The staff members are ltr: Robert Lekgwathi, Happy Mphahlele & Shadi Matsemela]

An exhibition with documents from our collection on the subject was also displayed.

[Picture above: The FOP Project leader, Mrs Happy Mphahlele with the exhibition held at the LIASA-GN meeting in the NLSA's Pretoria campus auditorium]

For more information 
on the NLSA Foreign Official Publications Section, 
contact:

Mrs Happy Mphahlele
NLSA Pretoria campus
+27 12 4019712

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