Opportunities—MDG updates, activities
Stand Up and Speak Out Against Poverty, Tuesday, October 16-Wednesday, October 17
On October 16 and 17, join millions of
people from around the world to Stand Up and Speak Out against
poverty and inequality.
In 2000, world leaders from 189 countries signed up to the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs )—a global commitment
to halve extreme poverty by 2015.
Last year, more than
23
million people in 87 countries stood up and took action to
remind them of this promise. It was the largest single
coordinated mobilization in the history of the Guinness World
Records.
In 2007, we are at half time—but the world is falling behind.
This year, you can join this growing movement of people calling
on our leaders to take action now.
Learn how to be a part of this here:
http://www.standagainstpoverty.org.
Eat In to Help Out—fun and support for the Millennium Development Goals, October 13-21
Eat In to Help Out week is coming, October
13-21, coinciding with the end of the
Jubilee Cancel Debt Fast (October 15); the
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October
17); the
Millennium Campaign's Stand Up Against Poverty (see above in "Opportunities").
Eat In to Help Out is when you host a dinner (or lunch or some meal) for your friends and then everyone puts the amount of money they would have spent "eating out" and you all decide where to send it to "help out" against global extreme poverty (send it to Episcopal Relief and Development, make a microloan through Kiva, support something in your companion diocese relationship, and so on).
Click here to register your Eat In To Help Out party with Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation now!