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Make Poverty History | Click | Gallery | Find out more
Did you know that every single day, 30,000 children die because of extreme poverty? In the time it took you to watch VEE-TV, 500 children died needlessly.
This week VEE-TV travelled to Tanzania, where we followed a team from Action
Aid as it set out to meet some of the world's poorest people and take their
stories and messages back to leaders in the West.
Action Aid is just one of more than 400 organisations across the world who have
joined together in the Make Poverty History campaign. The campaign has three
main aims:
• To rewrite the rules of world trade to
give poor countries a fair chance.
• To cancel their crippling debt.
• To increase aid and make it more effective.
We talked to Ronan Keating, one of the celebrities who have committed themselves
to the campaign. On a recent visit to Ghana with Christian Aid, Ronan saw the
effect of current trade rules on people there. 'I've had an unbelievable life-changing
experience,' he said. 'My duty to the people I met to speak out about trade
justice begins now that I'm back. Once people hear the message, I can't believe
people will turn away.'
To find out more, log on to www.makepovertyhistory.org
or check out our selection of other sources of information.
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