Poverty Advocacy Videos That We Think Are Cool
Here at the Global Poverty Project, we come across great information and resources everyday. Over the coming months we will update you with all of these cool resources. To start with here are the videos that inspire and excite the staff at the Global Poverty Project.
The Girl Effect
In our opinion this is the coolest video advocating the end of extreme poverty. The clip is simple, yet it is extremely effective at demonstrating the potential social and economical benefits of women participating in developing societies.
We hope you love it as much as we do... it gives us goosebumps every time we watch it!
Celebrate, Accelerate
Our friends at the One Campaign developed this short video to show to a group of world leaders at the Secretary General's reception during the UN Summit for the Millennium Development Goals on 25th September 2008.
The video provides a great reflection on the progress that the world has made over the last decade on our way to achieving the MDG's; and then focuses on how we need to accelerate our past decades work.
For more of the One Campaigns videos, visit their youTube site.
The Universal Decleration of Human Rights
Similar to the Girl Effect video, this video promoting the Universal Decleration of Human Rights is extremely impressive in communicating its message.
Hans Rosling - Gapminder at TED conference
Through his (very cool) Gapminder software Hans Rosling so clearly and effectively communicates the progress of poverty and how countries are able to pull themselves out of poverty.
This site is definitely one of our favourites... Enjoy Hans' party trick at the end too!
The Miniature Earth
It's often hard to understand the true scale of extreme poverty. Miniature Earth is a video that takes a series of facts in the context of a single community of 100 people.
Miniature Earth, by way of simple facts and figures, gives a truly remarkable, yet undeniably clear, view of the world's population.
