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Here's an interesting campaign that our US partner organization ONE is participating in.
If you have a Twitter account, use the tag #apowerfulnoise and you will generate a $0.50 donation to the charity CARE, a partner in the fight against global poverty. It's all in support of a new movie coming out this week.
You can find out more about the 'Tweetathon' here
Want to follow Make Poverty History on Twitter?
Go to http://twitter.com/endpove
(Makepovertyhistory was too long for a profile name - too bad!)
If you have a Twitter account, use the tag #apowerfulnoise and you will generate a $0.50 donation to the charity CARE, a partner in the fight against global poverty. It's all in support of a new movie coming out this week.
You can find out more about the 'Tweetathon' here
Want to follow Make Poverty History on Twitter?
Go to http://twitter.com/endpove
(Makepovertyhistory was too long for a profile name - too bad!)
A great opinion piece in the Globe and Mail today, in which former Conservative Prime Minister Joe Clark says Canada should push the rest of the world to help poorer nations get through the current economic crisis.
"Let's trade on our G20 status to help the poor"
Check out the article here: http://bit.ly/16ErNO
"Let's trade on our G20 status to help the poor"
Check out the article here: http://bit.ly/16ErNO
Okay so Joe Clark doesn't look like this anymore. But he has better hair in this picture than our current PM.
We can bail out banks, but the poorest of the world are hit far harder - it's not just their 'profits' that suffer. Former Prime Minister Clark writes that we should help Canadians AND poorer nations get through the current tough times. Why don't we have a Conservative PM like that any more?
IF you like the article, make sure to email it to other people you know using the Globe and Mail website- the more people who email it the higher it gets in rankings on the Globe website, and the more people will read it.
If you are interested, join the discussion on the Make Poverty History Facebook page here:
http://www.facebook.com/ho
(you are a fan, right? ;)
Thanks, hope everyone is doing well,
Eric.
Back in 1989, federal politicians from all parties promised to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000. The latest report card from Campaign 2000 tells us that, nineteen years later 760,000 children are still living in poverty in Canada.
Send Prime Minister Stephen Harper a message to end child poverty by visiting:
http://www.makepovertyhist
Campaign 2000 has been tracking the numbers since the promise in 1989. What’s the big change since then? Virtually no change at all. Canada’s child poverty rate is 11.3% - almost 1 child out of every 9 – just about as high as it was in 1989.
What have the politicians been up to for the past 19 years?
And why haven’t more of us been reminding them loudly of their promise?
Countries in Northern Europe have child poverty rates less than 5%. The United Kingdom has a Poverty Reduction Strategy in place that cut their child poverty rate. We can do the same. Learn more about the issue here.
It’s time to send our politicians a message – we can Make Child Poverty History in Canada.
Read more about the Campaign 2000 child poverty report
One in nine kids in poverty
http://thechronicleherald.
1 in 9 Canadian kids still live in poverty: Report
http://www.canada.com/topi
Little progress on child poverty, threat increasing: Campaign 2000 report
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/s
B.C. records worst child-poverty rate for fifth consecutive year
http://www.straight.com/ar
Send Prime Minister Stephen Harper a message to end child poverty by visiting:
http://www.makepovertyhist
Campaign 2000 has been tracking the numbers since the promise in 1989. What’s the big change since then? Virtually no change at all. Canada’s child poverty rate is 11.3% - almost 1 child out of every 9 – just about as high as it was in 1989.
What have the politicians been up to for the past 19 years?
And why haven’t more of us been reminding them loudly of their promise?
Countries in Northern Europe have child poverty rates less than 5%. The United Kingdom has a Poverty Reduction Strategy in place that cut their child poverty rate. We can do the same. Learn more about the issue here.
It’s time to send our politicians a message – we can Make Child Poverty History in Canada.
Read more about the Campaign 2000 child poverty report
One in nine kids in poverty
http://thechronicleherald.
1 in 9 Canadian kids still live in poverty: Report
http://www.canada.com/topi
Little progress on child poverty, threat increasing: Campaign 2000 report
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/s
B.C. records worst child-poverty rate for fifth consecutive year
http://www.straight.com/ar
Congratulations to our American cousins on their choice of Barack Obama as President of the USA. Our partner campaign in the US, the ONE campaign, interviewed all the presidential candidates long before the party candidates were chosen.
So we have three videos of Barack Obama answering questions on what his administration would do about poverty overseas. It makes for really interesting viewing, and begs the question "What is our leader planning to do?"
Read more here:
http://www.makepovertyhist
So we have three videos of Barack Obama answering questions on what his administration would do about poverty overseas. It makes for really interesting viewing, and begs the question "What is our leader planning to do?"
Read more here:
http://www.makepovertyhist