What

YOU can do

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is

man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Nelson Mandela

Choose a

Global Issue

to focus on

Then start your Campaign in School…

IDEAS…?Hold a quiz show assembly on world poverty: Hold a quiz show assembly on world poverty:

make it pupils versus teachersmake it pupils versus teachers

Film it for fun and don’t forget a booby prize!Film it for fun and don’t forget a booby prize!

Perform a drama about deaths from preventable diseases…

IDEAS…? CONTINUED

Act

out

a

‘race againstpoverty’

...educate everyone about how Fairtrade can reduce poverty!

Other school based actions… Run a Fairtrade cafe, serving

yummy hot chocolate and banana cake at lunch time and

…

Make your own slum!These slum dwellings were made by young people to show how 1 in 6 people in the world live…

Write a Write a poempoem or or songsong about about global poverty global poverty

Don’t perform a song if you can’t sing though. …..

……There’s enough of that on…

Do some

IDEAS…? street theatre in town

Get your message out to more people by …..creating a section in your school newsletter or website

Welcome to Blah Blah Arts and Community College

“ We hope that this will raise awareness about how 1 in 5 of

the world’s population live. I’m really going to miss chocolate though!”

Anna Martin, spokesperson for

the group

Undersize us!

A group of Sixth Formers have shown their

solidarity with the world’s poorest

people by vowing to live on 80p a day for a week!

Why not send your article to the local paper as well?

If you want something a bit If you want something a bit

more more MovingMoving … …

Get hold of 19 pairs of baby shoes and display them in the town centre to show how

many children die every minute from preventable diseases like malaria and diarrhoea

Join the Millennium Development Goals Facebook group…

… And make your own for your area or school.

To make sure your message gets across to bjkjkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkthe people in power…

Think about what other people in your community are doing

Or what they might want to do ….

Make a list of all the organisations in your community …

… and then map them to what you want to do

Contact your local church

To see whether they would like to work with you

Write to your local MP---

Tell them what you think.

AND

Dear Hilary Benn MP,

We are not happy with the UK’s progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. It is disgraceful that all over the world millions of children our age do not have the opportunity to go to school, and that they may be suffering from malnutrition or risk death from easily treated illnesses such as diarrhoea.

We would like to make our voices heard and tell the government to keep their promises to the developing world and keep pushing towards the MDG’s before it is too late.

Yours sincerely, all at Allerton High School.

‘‘We are the first

We are the first generation that

generation that can eradicate

can eradicate poverty and we

poverty and we refuse to miss

refuse to miss this opportunity’

this opportunity’Eveline Herfkins,

Eveline Herfkins,

Millennium Millennium Campaign

Campaign co-ordinator

co-ordinator

““Ending Ending

poverty is poverty is

not an act not an act

of charity. of charity.

It is an act It is an act

of justice.”of justice.”

Nelson Nelson

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What will YOU Do?