Global Perspectives

I had a great time at the Global Perspectives Conference. I went to the workshop about poverty and I saw the documentary. It was really interesting to learn about all of the poverty in the world, I feel like people do not think about it as much until the information is right in front of them. I don't remember what the names of the speakers were, but they gave us a lot of information. One of the things I found interesting was the fact about the four development traps keeping people in poverty. The four traps are  the natural resource trap, land locked trap, conflict trap, and bad governments trap. On average, conflicts cost countries 64 billion dollars a year. I learned that more than a billion people were in extreme poverty, making less than $1.25 a day, out of which, more than a million of these people are children.
This workshop made me think of a lot of the presentations we heard in class. A lot of the people in our class did presentations on world hunger, and child hunger. These things go hand-in-hand because when someone is making less than $1.25 a day cannot afford to feed themselves or their families. The "call to action" is to eliminate poverty world-wide by the year 2030. 
I think this is very important that poverty is eliminated because then governments can spend their money elsewhere. There will be less need for welfare and other things like that because people would be able to afford them without government assistance.