it is targeting 50 years from 2023 to fight poverty eradication in Nigeria.
Bishop Joseph Vambe, ICOSD’s President, made this known in his seminar presentation on War Against Poverty and Inequality on Wednesday in Abuja, to mark ICOSD 2nd World Day Celebration.
Vambe said the organisation’s mission was in line with the UN’s agenda to fight the global poverty challenges.
ICOSD is an internaThe International Christian Organisation for Sustainable Development (ICOSD), an NGO says tional organisation, which represents the global voice of billions of people:- Christian, lawyers, scientists, Journalists, doctors, researchers, philanthropists among others.
ICOSD mission is to rise against global affliction, to change the current global poverty narrative from the church to the entire global community.
“This is a vision given by God in early 2015. The Christian vanguard and movement aligned to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal one (SDG 1) of the United Nations Global Goals by 2072 (50 years target).
“Today is our world ICOSD Day, we had the first one last year where we went to Kuchinkoro village to share with those in the IDP camps and also shared with some widows.
“ So this year we decided to meet together to share in knowledge, looking at global poverty and the need for us to key into some of the projects we have in ICOSD so that we can all live above poverty.
According to Vambe, poverty is the bedrock for global affliction and over 90 per cent of both personal and corporate socio-economic challenges in the global community are aggravated by poverty.
The bishop said bad governance, prejudice, violence, illnesses, sorcery, hell, corruption, slavery, dysfunctional families, divorce, low life expectancy, ignorance, injustice, marginalisation also contributed to the rise of poverty in the world.
To tackle the challenge, the ICOSD president explained that the organisation had designed some programmes for the uplifting of both urban and rural poor from poverty through unique projects to live above poverty and comfortably.
He listed donor specified projects, financial and wealth building intelligence project, church economic synergy project, good governance/leadership project, e-commerce multi-level marketing platform project, social community projects and the rest as some of the projects.
Earlier, Mrs Mary Agbo, the Deputy National Director on Programme and Strategy of ICOSD, said the basic significance of the seminar was to educate the ICOSD stakeholders to seek ways to eradicate poverty among Nigerians.
According to her, ICOSD has the projection between now and 50 years to strategies ways to execute its poverty eradication plans.
In his contribution, Mr Olanrewaju Osho, one of the participants, said the seminar was not only needed in the church but also by the larger society.
“This seminar is what we need, not only in the church, but in the Mosque, in the shrine, in the school and everywhere in Nigeria.
“We need this kind of revelational knowledge sharing platform so that Nigerians can understand that 131 out of 200 million Nigerians living below poverty is unacceptable.