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Hey PAOV,I think it’s safe to say that last Saturday was the best Global Citizen Festival yet.
Nearly 60,000 global citizens stood in solidarity with US Vice President Joe Biden, the First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama, Malala Yousafzai, Pearl Jam, Beyonce, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, and many others to launch the #GlobalGoals. The collective action of global citizens, artists, activists and world leaders set a precedent for monumental change over the course of the next fifteen years - and because of you, 92 million lives are set to be affected.
Click here to relive every minute of the #GlobalCitizen Festival and see the impact you’re making as a global citizen.
On the day of the festival, world leaders committed to ensuring a wide range of support to water and sanitation, education, girls and women, global health, food and hunger and the refugee crisis. World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim announced that the World Bank would lead in efforts to lift an additional 20 million people out of extreme poverty in the next 12 months. Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg committed to double her country’s contribution to the Global Partnership for Education, and increase sanitation funding by at least 6 million USD.
But that’s not all. Luxembourg committed to contribute 500,000 euros to help eradicate polio and European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans, committed to increase support for the refugee crisis by 500 million euros.
To see all the commitments made by world leaders, click here to watch the #GlobalCitizen Festival.
This is the real deal. You and thousands of global citizens around the world brought world leaders together to make change.We CAN end extreme poverty by 2030, and this year’s Global Citizen Festival showed us that some of the most powerful people on Earth are willing to make bold commitments toward making that happen when we call on them.
The rest is up to us: we’re not a generation of bystanders, and it’s our job to make sure world leaders keep their promises.
Thanks for doing what you do,
Tom and the Global Citizen Team
ps. To read more about the lives you affected by taking action, view this article here!
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