The fight to make poverty history continues. With the buy in from celebrities and President Bush, Uganda are making huge dents in the statistics of AIDS amoung adults. 10 years ago as much as 15% of the adult population had AIDS, today the percentage is down to 5.
This is great news and credit is due to Citizens of Uganda, volunteers and campaigners like Bono.
Read about this here
ALSO! its world day to overcome extreme poverty on the 17th October. You can sign a peition, use the info and resources to shout it out in your school, workplace, home, flat, youth group etc. You can raise money, choose to sacrifice something in order to live more simply and give more to those who need it. There is heaps of ways we can OVERCOME EXPREME POVERTY. Be a part of the change... this world needs you.
Find out more here
We've still got a long way to go.
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