What It's About
Halving global poverty by 2015 and achieving the Millennium Development Goals by:
A child dies every three seconds as a result of extreme poverty. More than 1 billion people around the world live in abject poverty on less than $1 a day. About 800 million people go to bed hungry every night and more than 6000 people die from HIV/AIDS every day.
It doesn’t have to be this way
Make Poverty History is part of the Global Call to Action against Poverty involving about 80 countries that aims to end the injustice of poverty. It is the largest anti-poverty movement in history.
In Australia, Make Poverty History is a coalition of more than 60 aid agencies, community groups and religious organisations. The coalition seeks to ensure the Australian Government creates policies that: guarantee more and better aid, debt relief, fairer trade, help poor communities keep their governments accountable, tackle climate change and honour commitments made to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a global plan to halve poverty by 2015.
When the Australian Prime Minister signed on to the Millennium Declaration, he and all other world leaders declared that,
“We will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanising conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a billion of them are currently subjected.”
While there has been progress, the pace of action is too slow. If we fail, the poor will pay the price. If everyone who wants to end poverty speaks at the same time, Australian and global leaders will be forced to listen. So Join Us and Take Action to help end extreme poverty.
The Make Poverty History campaign is not a fundraising campaign. If you wish to make a financial contribution to help end global poverty, give to the existing poverty-alleviating programs of our members. You can also buy a White Band to help support the campaigning efforts.
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