Aussies Spearhead Global Poverty Initiative in NY

Interesting article in the Financial Review about a group of Aussies in NY city, spearheading the global poverty initiative.

When actor Hugh Jackman, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and rapper Jay Z appear before 50,000 festival-goers in New York this weekend to help fight global poverty, lurking behind the scenes will be a contingent of Australians central to the event. Most Aussies visiting New York are there to enjoy themselves, to soak up the live shows, the food and city life that are the good products of a compressed mass of humanity. A handful of Aussies get to work in New York, the lucky ones being shoe-horned into jobs with six-figure salaries, apartments and health insurance. Then there is Melbourne-raised Hugh Evans, chief executive of the Global Poverty Project. Evans, 31, along with Australians Simon Moss and Wei Soo, is creating a global movement of people aiming to eradicate world poverty. The annual festival at the iconic Central Park is the headline event for Global Citizen, the public-facing brand of the Global Poverty Project entity.

Like I always say, if you want something done properly, send in the Aussies. Or as Field Marshall Rommel said, “Give me a brigade of Australians and I could do anything!”