"Eradicating Poverty is Like Eating Ice Cream"
The amount of money spent every year on ice-cream in the United States alone would make it possible, if it were added to what is now being done, to achieve the goal of access to primary education for all children.
This was how Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and well-known Christian, Paul Boateng illustrated the point that Millennium Development Goals (MDG) could be reached if rich countries really wanted to reach them.
Echoing sentiments expressed by U2 frontman Bono, in his recent speech to the Labour party conference, Boateng said; “We do not lack the awareness, we do not lack the science, we do not lack the resources. We have the technology, the medicine, the expertise – and the costs are not prohibitive. What the developed word lacks is the will to make reality of our Millennium promise.”