Lucky To Be Me: tale om global ulighed

Ladies and gentlemen, parents, friends, boys and girls.

I have called my speech “Lucky to be me” because I think that we more think of us, than on some others. And it is a completely unheard way to think, in my opinion. Therefore I have chosen to write about such a world-wide thing, like the equality to life. We doesn’t live in a small world, where our town and societies are the only thing, there has a meaning. No, we live in a world where human beings here in U.S just can go over and get what they'll have to eat and drink.

We do not think of, that every day more than 1 billion people puts there life at risk because they drink unclean water, and how 25.000 people dies of unclean water every day! We doesn’t think on the 800 million people that go hungry all around in the world just now, and what they wanted to do just to get a bit of all our food.

Education, it's a word we use very much here, with all our schools and universities. Here in U.S almost all children’s get an education, some longer than others, but in principle an education. What we do not know is that there in the Third World are about 31 % illiterate persons, and that means that they cannot read and write. That would correspond, if there were 30 pupils in a class and 9 of them couldn’t read and write. And that it's a thing to consider.