Eight Millennium Development Goals were developed in 2000 with the objective of improving the lives of the world's poorest people by 2015. We have made great gains - more babies are receiving life-saving immunizations, more kids are in school and more people have access to safe water than ever before.

Despite these impressive gains, 1.4 billion people, roughly one-fifth of the world's inhabitants, continue to live in extreme poverty.

To achieve our goals and become the generation that eradicates extreme poverty, we need a unified movement of people around the world. The Global Poverty Project will catalyse this movement by creating a feature slideshow and film... FIND OUT HOW