By News Agency of Kashmir
Srinagar : Thousands of students, scholars and teachers of Kashmir University and its all affiliated colleges joined the “Stand up and Speak out” campaign at different venues in the varsity, here today, to mark the 20th International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
The “Stand Up, Speak Out” campaign is part of the UN efforts to promote the Millennium Development Goals of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education and ensuring a sustainable environment by 2015.
Vice chancellor kashmir university Prof Abdul Wahid Qureshi and Registrar Prof Syed Fayaz Ahmad also joined a stand up campaign at Ghandi Bhawan KU and spoke to the audience as well .
The Millennium Campaign is an interagency initiative of the United Nations that supports citizens’ efforts to hold their governments to accountable for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Working in more than 30 countries, both rich and poor, the Campaign partners with a wide range of partners at the international and local level to inspire grassroots movements toward the achievement of the Goals.
Besides a grand procession of students and teachers the organizers in collaboration with UNO organised a declamation competition on poverty themes, a film screening on poverty in collaboration with EMMRC KU , and books on poverty were displayed at various countries in collaboration with Alama Iqbal Library, a varsity spokesman told News Agency of Kashmir.
Speaking on the occasion, VC Prof Abdul Wahid said that given the strong and pervasive links between poverty and health, a commitment to health necessarily implies a commitment to reducing poverty.
“We need a commitment for the eradication of poverty”, he said and thanked the UNO headquarters new Delhi for their interest in Kashmir University and expected more collaborations of the nature in future.