The Assembly of First Nations held a Day of Action today, holding a rally and march to Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Make Poverty History supports the AFN in their work on the Make Poverty History for First Nations campaign.
Find our more about the campaign here

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

English-language Click Ad with Canadian, UK and US artists. Produced for Make Poverty History Canada. 30 second version. 

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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