International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

Poverty is a policy outcome, made by humans, fixable by them.

October 17 was declared the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty by the United Nations in 1992, following a commemoration held in Paris in 1987 where 100,000 people gathered at the Trocadéro to honor victims of extreme poverty. The day insists that poverty is not a personal failing but a