Letters

Questions for the UN

THE EDITOR, Madam:

A United Nations' (UN) sponsored report stated that in the coming decade more than five million people can escape from poverty and tens of millions can avoid certain death if certain rich countries keep their promises to vastly increase development aid to the world's poorest countries.

My questions to the United Nations are:

Isn't it a figment of one's imagination to think that promises of aid made by leaders of rich countries will be met?

Can poverty be eradicated from earth when it is a known fact that 300 people control the earth's wealth?

Can poverty be erased when 100 men control more wealth than 3.5 billion people across the world?

Will poverty go away when the yearly salary of one CEO of a company in a developed country surpasses the gross domestic product of Etherea?

Can poverty ever end when every year 2 million girls fall into prostitution across the planet?

Isn't it transparent that some leaders' way of stemming poverty is to allow 3.45 million girls under the age of 15 to die from lack of proper antenatal care during pregnancy every year globally?

My thought for every person across the planet is, "In the minds of the poor one road leads to hope the other to despair, so it's good to be aware".

I am, etc.,

ALLAN MARTIN

Namibia