Common Wealth

Between 1 and 3 million people, most of them children, die each year from malaria.

Asia: Every fifth person lives in extreme poverty, on an income below one dollar a day.

East Africa: The poorest people live in the desert or on semi-arid land that makes up almost 40 per cent of the land base of this part of Africa.

 

Ours is the generation that can end extreme poverty.

If we adequately support the right policies we can achieve the MDGs by 2015 and end extreme poverty by 2050.