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Australia Connections Abound In “1.4 Billion Reasons” Presentation On Global Poverty Featuring Hugh Jackman

The Centre for Creative Communications at Centennial College in Toronto, Ontario, will present on Sept. 11, 2009, the North American launch of The Global Poverty Project‘s 1.4 Billion Reasons, a 90-minute slide show and film presentation based on leading research that articulates the facts of extreme poverty and demonstrates how everyone can be a part of the solution.

Australian Humanitarian Hugh Evans has founded The Global Poverty Project. Photo, Centennial College.

Hugh Evans, the 2004 Young Australian Of The Year and founder and former director of the Oaktree Foundation, an aid and development organization, has now founded The Global Poverty Project, a movement to take action to end extreme poverty.

“In the year 2000, 198 of the world’s leaders made a promise to improve the lives of the world’s poorest by 2015,” says Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and project advocate, in a video clip. “Nine years on, 1.4 billion people still live in extreme poverty. It’s time for us to re-energize this movement.”

The Global Poverty Project, which launched in July in Australia, also involves Chris Adams, co-founder of Participant Media and Executive Producer of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

For more information on the North American launch event, visit event details at Centennial College.