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G8 and The ONE Campaign

Published 13 July 2005 by will | E-mail this post

1.5 million people signed petitions online and over 500,000 wrote letters to president bush. at the the G8 summit the leaders agreed to forgive all of Africa's debt and double the funding that we send these countries. to quote the ONE Campaign site..

"For African nations fighting poverty and corruption, this means a $25 billion increase in aid and wiping out 100% of their debts. With this funding, Africa can halve deaths from malaria, put millions of children into school, and 10 million people across the world will have access to lifesaving AIDS drugs. Behind each of these numbers is one person, life that will be changed forever."

This agreement is a real victory for Africa - but promises made of words will only become promises for a generation if we keep watching, asking and acting. Much more needs to be done in Washington DC to turn these commitments into lifesaving programs, and the world must take new steps to make trade fair. More meetings will take place this year in New York and Hong Kong where a comprehensive debt-aid-trade deal can be reached and end global AIDS and extreme poverty in our time.

Please visit the ONE Campaign site.