1. What YOU can do

2. 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

3. Choose a Global Issue to focus on

4. Then start your Campaign in School…

5. IDEAS…? Hold a quiz show assembly on world poverty: make it pupils versus teachers Film it for fun and don’t forget a booby prize!

6. Perform a drama about deaths from preventable diseases…

7. IDEAS…? CONTINUED Act out a ‘race against poverty’

8. ...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 …

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

10. Write a poem or song about global poverty Don’t perform a song if you can’t sing though. ….. ……There’s enough of that on…

11. Do some IDEAS…? street theatre in town

12. 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?

13. If you want something a bit more Moving … 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

14. 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…

15. Think about what other people in your community are doing Or what they might want to do ….

16. Make a list of all the organisations in your community … … and then map them to what you want to do

17. Contact your local church To see whether they would like to work with you

18. 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.

19. ‘We are the first generation that can eradicate poverty and we refuse to miss this opportunity’ Eveline Herfkins, Millennium Campaign co-ordinator “Ending poverty is not an act of charity. It is an act of justice.” Nelson Mandela

20. What will YOU Do?