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1.4 Billion Reasons

Directed by Global Poverty Project

Synopsis

1.4 Billion Reasons is a thought provoking journey that explores how we can see an end to extreme poverty within a generation. Based on leading research, 1.4 Billion Reasons clearly articulates the challenges of extreme poverty and demonstrates that by making simple changes everyone can be a part of the solution.

About the director

Global Poverty Project

The Global Poverty Project was launched at the UN High Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals in September 2008 by Salil Shetty, Director of the UN Millennium Campaign, and Stephen Smith MP, the Australian Foreign Minister. Our vision is a world without extreme poverty within a generation.

• Global Poverty Project
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More Information

It explains how everyday actions – what you learn, say, buy, give and do – can create big opportunities for the world’s poorest.

That’s why our focus at the Global Poverty Project is educating people about what the issues are and what effective aid looks like, and why we work with organisations around the world to campaign for change on issues that we know need more attention – like improving maternal and child health, reducing corruption and ensuring that aid money gets spent well.

1.4 Billion Reasons was directed by Antony Harvey, who enrolled in at Bucks New University in High Wycombe in 2003, one of the most respected TV and film schools in the country. Here, he read Video Production and Creative Writing, graduating with honors. He is now a freelance Producer, Editor, Script Writer, and splits his time between his home in West London where he works, and his family home in Eastbourne.

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