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On Friday 12th August 2022, the international advocacy organisation, Global Citizen officially launched their Global Citizen Festival: Accra, taking place on 24th September at the Black Star Square at the Kempinski Hotel, Accra.
Global Citizen is an international advocacy organisation and a global movement with a mission to defeat extreme poverty NOW, defend the planet, demand equity and achieve the U.N. Global Goals.
The organisation researches and selects causes to support, and then suggests actions for its members to take in support of those causes.\u00a0This can include sending tweets to organisations like the\u00a0United Nations\u00a0in support of reducing pollution, signing petitions to support gender equality, sending pre-written emails to politicians to increase international aid, or providing rewards to encourage people to get involved.
Dating back to its roots, Global Citizen was founded in 2008 as the Global Poverty Project in Melbourne, Australia\u00a0and has since opened additional offices in London, Berlin, Toronto, Lagos, and Johannesburg and is now headquartered in New York.\u00a0The advocacy organisation\u00a0in 2018 traveled to South Africa to celebrate Nelson Mandela\u2019s centennial. This year\u2019s Global Citizen Festival: Accra builds upon this continued expansion of Global Citizen\u2019s pan-African movement, following their recent festivals staged in South Africa and Nigeria.
The official launch event of their festival and expansion to Ghana was dubbed \u2018\u2019GLOBAL CITZEN FESTIVAL ACCRA\u2019\u2019 and held at the Kempinski Hotel \u2013 Accra on 12th\u00a0August 2022. Speaking at the event, Liz Agbor-Tabi, vice president global policy had this to say: \u2018\u2018\u2026We\u2019ve gathered today to share with you our exciting plans for the Global Citizen Festival: Accra, taking place right down the street at the iconic Black Star Square on September 24th\u00a02020. Black Star Square represents a beacon of democracy, independence, and equality. Built as a symbol of independence it will not only be hosting the Global Citizen Festival this year, but also Ghana\u2019s 65 Years of Independence celebrations.
Also present at the launch event was\u00a0the C.E.O and Co-Founder of Global Citizen Hugh Evans, the Deputy Minister for Finance Hon. Charles Adu Boahen, Bozoma St John, our Advisory Board Member and Ghanaian Diaspora, Gyakie, and Nakeeyat Dramani Sun \u2013 a rising young African star. Hugh Evans (CEO and co-founder) had this to say when he took the stage: \u2018\u2019\u2026\u00a0as we mark the 10th anniversary of the Global Citizen Festival, we\u2019re proud to be bringing the Festival to Accra \u2013 to add to the $41 billion in commitments\u00a0we have secured\u00a0over the past decade from governments, the private & philanthropic sectors, that have impacted over 1 billion lives\u00a0around the world.\u2019\u2019
Decades of systemic and political failures have led humanity into the midst of converging and rapidly deteriorating crises. The most marginalized populations are paying the price of the stagnant inaction of world leaders, and now millions of lives, and the future of our planet, are at stake.\u2019\u2019 He further said \u2018\u2019 Globally, the disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed nearly\u00a0100 million\u00a0more people into extreme poverty; I visited a community here in Accra yesterday who shared with me that petrol prices have doubled, the cost of milk has doubled in the past six months. This is going to affect everyone. It\u2019s not okay that the poor continue to bear the brunt of the failures of these systems \u2013 debt shouldn\u2019t be higher in the developing world than it is anywhere else in the world!\u2019\u2019
For his closing, the C.E.O reiterated Global Citizens\u2019 focus for this campaign which is calling on leaders to:
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Invest in the future of girls, because we know they are the key to ending extreme poverty;
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Close the climate finance gap, and deliver on the promises made in the Paris Agreement;
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Alleviate the global food crisis, by uplifting smallholder farmers across Africa; and
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Relieve the massive debts that are unjustly crushing economies,\u00a0because our collective future depends on it.
The honorable\u00a0deputy minister of Finance Charles Adu Boahen expressed Ghana\u2019s delight to host the Global Citizens festival. The country commits to working together with Global Citizens so we can help accelerate progress towards the realisation of the UN\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals\u00a0he said.
The Global Citizens Festival Accra launch would be climaxed with a music performance by an amazing lineup of artists including Usher, Gyakie (JACKIE), H.E.R, Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, Stormzy, Sza and TEMS. This music festival would be held at the Black Star Square on 24th\u00a0September 2022 and is a free ticketed event.<\/p>\n
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