The Global Poverty Project
Three months after its inception here in Australia, the Global Poverty Project was launched alongside the UN’s High Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals in New York on September 25 2008.
Speakers at the launch where Australian Foreign Minster, Stephen Smith; Director of the UN Millennium Campaign, Salil Shetty; CEO of World Vision Australia, Tim Costello; and Director of the Global Poverty Project, Hugh Evans.
The project already has backing from the Australian Government, the United Nations Millennium Campaign and the Mandela Foundation.
We are currently exploring opportunities for collaboration with many others including the Gates Foundation, the UK Government’s development agency DfID, U2 frontman and poverty campaigner Bono.
Research for the presentation and the film has commenced.
23.09.2008
Our new offices in Redfern.
We have gutted the whole space. Stripped it back. Painted it white. Removed the air conditioners. The idea behind this is to start from scratch. Like any brilliant idea, we will slowly build and create and decorate… we want this to be an organic creative process that includes all of TCO. In a way we are starting from scratch and looking to the future for bigger and better things. More shortly.
22.09.2008
Ooh. Look at us! We’ve gone all Change Agent-ish! TCO has embarked on a year-long research journey with the Global Poverty Project - headed up by long time TCO love Hugh Evans. GPP gets officially launched at UN HQ in New York later today and has already gained world wide recognition (see below). In addition to bags of research we are also going to be making an awesome presentation and feature length film out of the whole business! Think - An Inconvenient Truth with Paul Hogan’s accent… but better.
The thing that makes us so freaken warm inside is the speed in which this is happening! Over achievers like Hugh and Simon Moss make all of us feel uber lazer.
Keep your eyes peeled for the trailer which we will put up in the next few days - You can learn all about this amazing initiative that we are so damned proud to be a part of!!!!
