A child dies every three seconds as a result of extreme poverty. Poverty is not inevitable. If we have the will to act — we can Make Poverty History.

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At the start of the 21st century, 1.2 billion people live in abject poverty. More than 800 million people go to bed hungry and 50,000 people die every day from poverty-related causes.

Poverty exists because of the choices we make. It exists because we have:

• insufficient and ineffective aid
• an unjust global trade system
• a debt burden for poor countries that is so great that it suffocates any chance of recovery
• an unwillingness to invest enough in social development

It doesn't have to be this way. If we choose - if we have the will to act - we can make poverty history.

Nelson Mandela speaks about the impact of Live 8 and Make Poverty History.

Sign the First Nations Petition to Make Poverty History at http://www.afn.ca/MPH/mph.htm

Make Poverty History raises the Minimum wage issue ahead of the October 10 2007 Ontario Provincial election.

Bill C-293 - The Better Aid Bill - is legislation that says that Canada will not spend aid money unless 3 conditions are satisfied:

1. that aid be used to eradicate poverty,
2. that its application will be consistent with human rights standards, globally accepted and recognized, and
3. that aid will be delivered in a manner which is consistent with respect for the ideas and the priorities of those who are actually living in poverty, the supposed beneficiaries of aid.

The better aid bill, it's called bill c293, if you live in the House of Commons, will create a whole new approach to spending Canadian aid. First of all, its sets up 3 main rules that the Minister of International Development Assistance has got to meet when she or he decides to spend aid money.