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City to join global campaign against poverty on Oct 17By A City Correspondent
GUWAHATI, Oct 4 – Students of Guwahati will take part in a worldwide campaign
against poverty to be jointly launched by The Art of Living and United Nations
Millennium Campaign (UNMC) on October 17.The joint effort is aimed at
eradicating poverty and inching towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
set by the United Nations. The MDGs include achieving universal primary
education, promotion of gender equality and empowering women, reducing child
mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
diseases, ensuring sustainability and developing a global partnership for
development.Art of Living’s North East coordinator Pinki Hazarika said that
along with the rest of the world, the students of the city will take the pledge
to eradicate poverty by standing up for two minutes.The ‘Stand Up’ campaign
would seek to mobilise public opinion to support the UNMC’s initiative to
achieve a poverty-free world by 2015. The Art of Living has taken the lead to
mobilise over four million people across the globe to support the vision to
defeat poverty.The Art of Living is going to organize several public events in
over 100 countries for people from all walks of life to take the pledge. The
‘Stand Up’ events would be held all over the world, from the busiest square in
the world, New York’s Times Square to the smallest school in the tsunami-struck
Ache province in Indonesia. The events would be in different forms such as
simple public gatherings, music concerts, group dances, rallies, carnivals,
street theatres and satsangs. The idea behind the ‘Stand Up’ campaign is to
remind the world leaders of their promise of achieving the MDGs and urge them
to show the necessary political will. The rich countries would be enjoined to
provide more aid, cancel debts and practice fair trade, whereas the poor
countries would be requested to save the lives of the poorest citizens and
achieve real transparency and accountability in utilization of resources.“In
the North East we are mainly targeting the schools,” said Pinki. Schools with
more than 500 students in the city are being approached for the forthcoming
programme.The Art of Living, North East has requested the people of the region
to come forward and make the world a more beautiful place to live.The ensuing
event is a follow-up to an alliance finalised in May 2007 between the Art of
Living and UNMC.
“In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble
like a blade of grass”
- Lakshmana
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