It was another wonderful evening in Accra city of Ghana, with an enormous supporters and wings of attraction sprouting all over the place, the people had a special day plus a superfluous turn up around the area; at the Black Star Square Accra Ghana.
The following items were prohibited by the authority:
- Glass bottles, plastic bottles with caps, metal cans
- Audiovisual material (professional cameras, video cameras, recording devises like DAT or MD)
- Pyrotechnic articles, candles
- Weapons, explosive, inflammable or volatile substances
Among many others, the people were trilled with happiness and joy seeing there favorite Artist performing on stage.
The Global Citizen campaign to End Extreme Poverty NOW marked a major milestone at the live and broadcast events Global Citizen Festival: NYC and Global Citizen Festival: Accra, on Saturday, Sept. 24, during which key commitments were announced as we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the festival’s impact and advocacy, through the hard work of many partner organizations.
The 2022 Global Citizen Festival saw more than US$800 million announced to end extreme poverty NOW and US$1.6 billion announced by the European Commission and Canada as part of the seventh replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight #AIDS, #Tuberculosis, and #Malaria on Sept. 21, in addition to the announcement of five companies signing on to the UN led Race to Zero initiative to reach netzero emissions by 2050.
Of this funding, more than US$440 million was earmarked exclusively to initiatives to end extreme poverty on the African continent, with the remainder intended to reach people around the world, including across Africa.
“It’s great to join you on the 10th year of this [Global Citizen] Festival,”
US President Joe Biden
US President Joe Biden said in a video address to Global Citizens on Saturday.
“Thank you for building this movement and making big things happen.”.
Joe Biden
From around the world, messages of support for Global Citizen’s End Extreme Poverty NOW campaign were received by President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, President of France Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez, COP27 Youth Envoy Dr. Omnia el Omrani, Taoiseach of Ireland Micheál Martin, Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros, COP26 President Alok Sharma, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, US Rep. Jamie Raskin, US Rep. Ann Wagner, and US Rep. John Curtis.
Amidst all the doomsday messages we hear today, hope lies in the fact that millions of citizens are rising up to take action, more than any other point in history.
“10 years ago, Global Citizen was just an idea and 10 years from now we’ll see a generation of Global Citizens running for offices, starting companies, and transforming communities,”
Hugh Evans, CoFounder and CEO, Global Citizen.
As part of the Global Citizen Festival campaign, Global Citizen partnered with GlobalGiving to create a Regional Response Network across sub Saharan Africa made up of vetted NGO partners, selected based on their ability to achieve tangible outcomes to achieve the objectives of our End Extreme Poverty NOW campaign.
Global Citizens have taken more than 2 million actions with Global Citizen in 2022 to help achieve Global Citizen’s mission to End Extreme Poverty NOW, more than doubling the record previously set by the international advocacy organization.
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