Jania Ashlynn
Chris Martin and Hugh Jackman are hosting the Global Citizen NOW summit. The event is set to take place on April 27 and 28. This summit is filled with leaders in different creative spaces across the industry like activism, public policy, philanthropy, music, and entertainment.
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High-profile world leaders will be making an appearance at the summit. Mia Mottley, Nana Akufo-Addo, Erna Solberg, and Ursula von der Leyen.
Mission Statements
The focus of this year’s summit will be pursuing an end to extreme world poverty.
The Co-Founder and CEO of Global Citizen NOW, Hugh Evans, is focusing on eliciting meaningful policy changes from world leaders regarding women’s equality and prosperity, education, healthcare access & quality, water, and sanitation services as well as environment protection initiatives.
Evans offered a statement at the summit surrounding the intentions of the global officials.
“Decades of systemic and political failures have led humanity into the midst of converging and rapidly deteriorating crises – climate, hunger, health, war and conflict,” Evans shared, “The most marginalized populations are paying the price of the stagnant inaction of our leaders, and now millions of lives, and the future of our planet, are at stake.”
At the end of his address, he added, “We refuse to just stand by and watch! We refuse to accept the starvation of multitudes when solutions are readily at hand. We demand a secure future for girls everywhere. We demand governments keep their promises on climate funding. We demand relief from debts unjustly crushing economies. And we demand action NOW, while there’s still time to change our collective trajectory.”
Reaching Out
Jackman has been involved in several other philanthropic pursuits like the Red Cross, Elton John’s AIDS Foundation, and Elizabeth Glaser’s Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
Martin has engrossed himself in charities like Make Trade Fair, TheCarbonNeutral Company, and Amnesty International.
It seems as if both men are the perfect fit for co-chairs.
