The Global Poverty Project is a community education group founded by Hugh Evans

Hugh Evans

Hugh Evans is an Australian humanitarian and the founder and former director of the Oaktree Foundation, for which he received the Young Australian of the Year Award in 2004. Evans worked in 2002 as the inaugural World Vision Youth Ambassador in South Africa. Evans stepped down from being Oaktree's...

 and Simon Moss that aims to increase awareness of, and action towards fighting extreme poverty

Poverty

Poverty is the lack of a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter. About 1.7 billion people are estimated to live...

 through a presentation entitled 1.4 Billion Reasons, patterned after Al Gore's

Al Gore

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....

 An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show that, by his own estimate, he has given more than a thousand times.Premiering at the...

, delivered around the world. Hugh Jackman

Hugh Jackman

Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theatre, and television.Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as action/superhero, period and romance characters...

signed on as a Global Advisor to the project, and is a public face for the Live Below the Line campaign sponsored by the project, which asks people to live on a small amount of money for five days to better understand the challenges of living in extreme poverty.