TED Vancouvers Global Citizen message.
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Thank you so much for your continued support of the mission to end extreme poverty by 2030.
Some of the world's most engaging thinkers came together in Vancouver earlier this year for the annual TED conference and Global Citizen’s CEO Hugh Evans was invited to join them to give a talk making the case for global citizenship - and it just went live!
When Hugh was in high school, he took part in a transformative trip to the Philippines through a fund-raising scholarship, where he befriended... a young man named Sonny Boy.Sonny Boy lived in a landfill, and one night Hugh lay in the slum with him and his family on a concrete slab, half the size of Hugh’s bedroom back home in Melbourne. He asked himself, “why should anyone have to live like this when I have so much?”.
That empathetic teenager would go on to build a movement that mobilizes the kind of person you and I now call a “global citizen,” and as Hugh puts it “someone who self identifies first and foremost not as a member of a state, tribe or nation, but as a member of the human race.”
Global Citizen is for people who want to make their social passion part of their identity. As Hugh points out in the talk, “It’s not that people don’t want to act, it’s that they don’t know how to take action or think it will take no effect.”
We hope you enjoy the talk and share it with your network - we are really proud of how it spells out our mission and what everyday citizens can do to build a sustainable future.
Thanks for being you - Dominic and the Global Citizen Team
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