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Bill and Melinda Gates: The world’s priority should be poverty reduction in Africa

Bill and Melinda Gates say improving health and education in Africa should be the world’s priority.

“Decades of stunning progress in the fight against poverty and disease may be on the verge of stalling,” they write in a report released today (Sept. 18) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “If current trends continue, the number of poor people in the world will stop falling—and could even start to rise.”

Demographics are a driving factor: The world’s population is growing fastest in its poorest regions, notably parts of Africa. “The shift of where kids are being born is to the places where it’s the most difficult to get the nutrition, vaccines, and education to those…

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 Bill and Melinda Gates: The world’s priority should be poverty reduction in Africa

The world’s priority for the next three decades should be a third wave of poverty reduction in Africa,” the Gates write in the report, noting the two earlier waves of poverty reduction in China and India that have contributed to the emergence of over a billion people from extreme poverty over the last two decades.

PovertyCure

PovertyCure is an initiative of the Acton Institute that seeks to ground the battle against local and global poverty in a proper understanding of the human person and society, and to encourage solutions that foster opportunity and unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that already fills poverty-stricken areas of the developed and developing world.

Trickle Up

We help people in extreme poverty & vulnerability advance their economic & social well-being.

ActionAid

Poverty is a denial and violation of human rights. At the heart of ActionAid's work lies the core belief in each human being's fundamental right to food, shelter, work, education, health care and a voice in the decisions that shape their lives.

CARE

CARE is a global leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. We are known everywhere for our unshakeable commitment to the dignity of people.

Compassion International

Compassion International is a child-advocacy ministry that pairs compassionate people with those who are suffering from poverty. The ministry releases children from spiritual, economic, social, and physical poverty. The goal is for each child to become a responsible and fulfilled adult.

Concern Worldwide

Concern Worldwide works with the world's poorest people to transform their lives.

Cuso International

Cuso International is a not-for-profit development organization that works to eradicate poverty and inequality through the efforts of highly skilled volunteers, collaborative partnerships and compassionate donors.

Engineers Without Borders

We ignite positive change and empower people to tackle global poverty.

FINCA

To alleviate poverty through lasting solutions that help people build assets, create jobs and raise their standard of living.

Food for the Poor

By providing lifesaving food, secure housing, clean water, healthcare, emergency relief, micro-enterprise projects and education opportunities, we are giving the poor a chance at a better future, and showing them God’s love. Join us.

Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that helps families build and improve places to call home. We believe affordable housing plays a critical role in strong and stable communities.

Hope of Life International

In the hills and remote communities of Guatemala thousands of children are clinging to their lives. Malnutrition and preventable diseases weaken them each day. Their parents are too poor to help them—but you can rescue a child and nurse them back to health.

Innovations for Poverty Action

We discover and promote effective solutions to global poverty problems.

ONE

ONE is a campaigning and advocacy organization of more than seven million people around the world taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. We believe the fight against poverty isn’t about charity, but about justice and equality.

People Against Poverty

Our charity works with international and UK projects that we can personally engage with to help changes lives by releasing communities from poverty

Plan International

Since 1937, Plan International has been promoting the rights of children around the world. We work with our partners in more than 50 countries, making sure children in some of the poorest communities are safe and protected from violence.

Progressio

Progressio is an international development charity supporting poor and marginalised people, especially women, to empower themselves.

The Borgen Project

The Borgen Project believes that leaders of the most powerful nation on earth should be doing more to address global poverty. We’re the innovative, national campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign policy.

War on Want

War on Want works to achieve a vision of a just world, through our mission to fight against the root causes of poverty and human rights violation, as part of the worldwide movement for global justice.