Thursday, September 10, 2020
Fresh concerns about COVID-19’s ‘threat to zero poverty progress'
Six months after the World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 pandemic, the crisis is plunging millions of children into poverty and reversing decades of progress towards reducing extreme poverty. That’s the warning from World Vision in the lead up to the United Nations General Assembly, where it will celebrate the 75 years of cooperation that have led to continuous poverty reduction - until now.