For those involved with the Global Poverty Project, the 1.4 billion people living in extreme poverty worldwide represent 1.4 billion reasons to take action.
The Global Poverty Project took its message to UNC’s Student Union Tuesday as part of a nationwide tour to raise awareness about extreme poverty.
The project aims to end global poverty within one generation.
Aubin is part of a four-person group known as the “Road Scholars” that is spending the next few months traveling to more than 100 different universities, high schools and community groups across the United States to share the Global Poverty Project’s awareness campaign.
The goal of Aubin’s presentation was to challenge the assumption that the problem of poverty cannot be solved.
Shannon Heath, another road scholar, said it is the duty of the youth to work to absolve poverty.
“It’s the civil rights issue of our generation,” Heath said. “There is absolutely no reason that over one billion people should live in extreme poverty when the majority do not. If you say you believe in a certain cause, you won’t just stand around and allow it to happen.”
UNC nursing student Jamie Glover attended the presentation because of her interest in global public health.
“It definitely provided some good ideas on how to take care of poverty and health care problems on a global level, which may help us crack this on our smaller level,” she said.
