UN General Assembly
2010

rural women. Today there are facilities that enable them to retain the added value that was previously in the hands of factories and producers, that is to say, those who control the money. We have also proposed a new definition of poverty, which is not the fact of having less than $1 a day. Poverty is a combination of deficiencies, such as in housing, decent food, access to school and health care. We are dealing with that by creating villages in which all those fundamental needs can be met. The Assembly knows about the Digital Solidarity Fund initiative, which we launched a few years ago to 15 10-54959 help bridge the digital divide between developed countries and underdeveloped countries. I would also like to report that we have launched the Eco-villages Strategy, which involves converting traditional villages to energy self-sufficiency by using clean energy such as solar or wind in order to lessen the degradation of our environment. Lastly, the initiative for complete equality between men and women in Senegal in all fully or