Poverty is more than lack of income or resources- it includes lack of basic services, such as education, hunger, social discrimination and exclusion, and lack of participation in decision making.

Age groups are affected differently when struck with poverty; its most devastating effects are on children, to whom it poses a great threat. It affects their education, health, nutrition, and security. It also negatively affects the emotional and spiritual development of children through the environment it creates.

Gender inequality plays a large role in the perpetuation of poverty and its risks; They then face potentially life-threatening risks from early pregnancy, and often lost hopes for an education and a better income.

Now it’s time to build on what we learned and end  poverty altogether.

Yes, it’s an ambitious goal—but we believe it can be done. In 2000, the  world committed to halving the number of people living in extreme  poverty by the year 2015 and we met this goal. However, more than  800 million people around the world still live on less than $1.25 a day—  that’s about the equivalent of the entire population of Europe living in  extreme poverty.