World Debt Day

MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
Today is World Debt Day
Hi
Today is World Debt Day. And today - as on every day - the rich world will demand $100 million from poor countries in debt repayments while poverty is killing 50,000 people every day. What's the point of giving aid with one hand yet taking so much away with the other.
Seven years ago today, 70,000 people formed a human chain around the G8 summit in Birmingham to demand the cancellation of unfair debt. They didn't only make headlines - but made a difference. 12 months later, the same world leaders agreed to cancel $100 million of debts owed by the world's poorest countries. It was a triumph of people power.
In seven weeks the G8 returns to the UK for the first time since they were in Birmingham. Thousands will gather in Edinburgh on July 2nd to call on the leaders of the world's richest nations to Make Poverty History. You can be one of them.
The message is clear:Enough is enough. There needs to be trade justice, debt cancellation, and more and better aid for the world's poorest countries.
I was moved when Mr Mandela said "Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that generation". It feels like these chances don't come often but this is a real opportunity to make changes in the world.
To find out how you can be involved in the Edinburgh Rally, click here.
Thank you
Dido
P.S. Movie director Anthony Minghella made this film to highlight the craziness of Africans giving us in debt repayments MORE than we give them in aid. Watch it, and if you can, send it to a friend and urge them to join us.