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Stand Up Against Poverty
Summary
What are the secrets for lasting change?
In 2006, 23 million people stood up ... in 2007 47 million people ... last year 116 million people stood up and took action worldwide.
This year Stand Up Against Poverty will take place against the backdrop of a financial crisis and stagnant global economy. Millions of people around the world will Stand Up and Take Action to show their support for the fight against poverty and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
To support Stand Up, One Just World will hold a special forum on three aspects of poverty – maternal and child health, poverty and disability, and water and sanitation – three areas that are crucial in helping the poor to become economically sustainable.
Currently:
- A child born in a developing country is over 13 times more likely to die within the first five years of life than a child born in an industrialised country.
- 10% of the world’s population (approximately 650 million) have a disability and about 500 million live in developing countries.
- 1 billion people worldwide do not have access to clean water and 2.6 billion suffer from inadequate sanitation.
These problems can be solved quickly and inexpensively if we take action. What are the best strategies for achieving success and lasting change?
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The Great Hall, University of Technology Sydney
Tower Building, 15 Broadway, Ultimo |
Date & time |
Wednesday, 14 October 2009 6:00 PM |
SPEAKERS
Fran Kelly (MC) - Pesenter, ABC Radio National Breakfast
Fran Kelly hosts ABC Radio National’s agenda-setting Breakfast program. A respected current affairs journalist and political correspondent, Fran has her roots in music, singing for several bands in the 1970s, notably all-girl new wave band, Toxic Shoc. She later moved to radio full time, first with triple j and then on ABC Radio’s flagship current affairs programs AM and PM. Fran spent 10 years in the Canberra press gallery, including two years as political editor for ABC TV’s 7.30 Report. Following a stint as the ABC’s Europe correspondent, she returned home in 2005 to host Breakfast.
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Rini Poespoprodjo – Paediatrician, Health Worker and Researcher, Timika, Papua, Indonesia
Rini is currently undertaking a PhD on the burden of malaria on maternal and child health at Charles Darwin University under the Australian Leadership Awards Scholarship Scheme. She has worked as a paediatrician, mother and child health consultant, and malaria researcher at Tmika, Papua. She has also worked as a Mother and Child Health Program Consultant for UNICEF Indonesia; as a researcher at the Indonesian National Institute of Health Research and Development in collaboration with Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin; and as a doctor and Head of the Kumbe Remote Health Centre, Merauke, Papua. Rini received her medical degree from Padjadjaran University, Bandung and qualified as a paediatrician at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. In 2005-06, she received the Chevening Award from the British Council Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme for a Master of Science in Mother and Child Health at University College, London.
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Ipul Powaseu – Executive Officer, National Research Institute, PNG
Ipul is a person with a disability who has been instrumental in working for the rights for disabled people in Papua New Guinea, particularly in access to public facilities and amenities and as a facilitator for national policy initiatives. Prior to her role at the National Research Institute, Ipul worked at the National Agricultural Research Institute where she was Senior Information and Outreach Liaison Officer. Before that, she worked with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community in Fiji, and was Head of the Scientific Liaison Unit at the Coffee Research Division of the Coffee Industry Corporation. Ipul has a Masters in Business (Communication Management) from Queensland University of Technology and a Bachelor of Environmental Science from the University of PNG. As Ipul herself says: “I have never seen myself as a disabled person. I believe that as long as I have the brain, I can contribute to nation building.”
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Matthew Bond - International Development Engineer specialising in water, sanitation & hygiene, and rural energy
Matthew is an engineer working in the field of international development. His areas of special interest are water, sanitation and hygiene, and rural energy. Matthew has managed, designed and evaluated water, sanitation and hygiene projects for a number of international NGOs including Oxfam, Plan International, World Vision and WaterAid. He is currently based in Melbourne but has lived and worked in a range of countries including East Timor, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, South Africa and Nicaragua. In addition to work with NGOs, Matthew has worked on projects funded by AusAID, DFID, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and UN agencies and also worked as a Water and Sanitation Engineer in Oxfam’s emergency responses in East Timor in 1999 and 2006.
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