Summit fails the poor of the world yet again
Once again, the world’s leaders have assembled, at phenomenal expense, and once again they have failed to achieve anything that will have any effect on the miserable lives of the poor.
The attitude of the wealthy countries, and that includes us, is contributing to the catastrophe of hundreds of thousands of people dying daily because we are not prepared to share the ample wealth of this world.
Perhaps more than food, water, shelter, medicines and education, the poorest of the poor need someone to take up their cause on the world stage, a champion who has the guts and the ability to shame the world into taking action rather than making yet more empty promises.
John O’Shea,
GOAL,PO Box 19,
Dun Laoghaire,
Co Dublin
