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Youth parliament > Youth MPs > Middle North Island > Mrs Jill Pettis
Mrs Jill Pettis - List MP for Labour
Applications for this MP have closed!. This MP nominated to select their Youth MP from the Whanganui electorate
Mrs Jill Pettis' Youth MP for Youth Parliament 2007 is;
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Alex Clark
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| Age: |
18
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| Home town: |
Wanganui
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| High school: |
Wanganui High School
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| An issue I feel strongly about: |
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I believe that all New Zealanders need to make a more unified
commitment to impoverished nations overseas, as this is what we
promised to do as a nation by committing to the Millennium Development
Goals (MDG) over 30 years ago. As part of the MDG, New Zealand promised to
commit 0.7% of our GDP to overseas developmental assistance, however we
currently only give around 0.23%. Other countries, such as Norway, are
well above this value already giving 0.87% of their GDP in overseas
assistance. A tiny shift in our lives of relative luxury in order to
give, will shift the lives of many impoverished people past the line of
suffering and death. We may not be able to completely eradicate poverty
from the world, but we can eradicate poverty from the worlds of so many
individuals. If we can do this without significant changes to our own
lives, then what's the big hold up? We need to give more, and this
needs to be done soon. |
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