STAND UP - MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
Stand Up event draws over 65 people
Posted: Monday 5th October 2009 11:37 (Updated: Friday 23rd October 2009 13:15)
Over 65 people showed up on a rainy Saturday, October 17th to help Make Poverty History. The event included a reading of the anti-poverty pledge, music and speakers. They stood together with millions of people around the world, in solidarity, to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
Stand Up Against Poverty is facilitated in Canada by the Make Poverty History coalition. It is a worldwide call to take action against poverty and inequality and to fulfill the Millennium Development Goals. STAND UP is a unique global mobilization which calls upon civil society, schools, businesses, and NGOs to band together with the same message - that we must MAKE POVERTY HISTORY.
In 2000, leaders of 189 countries signed up to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a global plan to halve poverty by 2015. The STAND UP campaign strives to remind governments and policy makers of their promise. The promise to end poverty inequality and hunger. The promise to stop children dying from preventable diseases. The promise to ensure basic education for all children, particularly girls. The promise to stop women dying during pregnancy and childbirth. The promise to provide water and sanitation and to protect the environment. Together participants around the world STAND UP to make governments honour their commitments on more and better aid, debt cancellations, trade justice, climate actions, gender equality and public accountability.
This call to action has never been more relevant here in Canada. June 25-27 2010 are 3 big days for Canadians. When the world's richest leaders gather at a resort in Muskoka, our Prime Minister will be the host. Host countires of G8 meetings have a lot of say in setting the tone of each meeting. This is our chance to show the world that Canada in intent on Making Poverty History. The more people that onboard, the more of us working together, the more noise we can make to ensure that real and positive change comes out of the 2010 G8.