Further Action
Take further action now to help MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY
Email Helen Clark today
Every 3 seconds, somewhere in the world, a child dies simply because they happen to be born poor. It doesn't have to be this way. We now have the knowledge and the resources to stop this, and politicians have the power to make it happen. But in order for them to act, they need to know that people care and that they want to see action.
Email Helen Clark now to let her now that you want to see action on poverty.
Email the Finance Minister
Last year the G8 promised to cancel the debt of 18 countries. Zambia is one of these countries. However, at least 40 countries still urgently need debt relief. There's still plenty to in order to end the scandal of poor countries living in debt.
Click here to email the Finance Minister
Email the Trade Minister
Unfair trade rules are one of the biggest barriers to overcoming poverty. The system works in favour of rich countries and keeps hundreds of millions of people from working their way out of poverty. This has got to stop. Our government has the power to help bring about the change that is needed.
Click here to email the Trade Minister
Email the Minister of Foreign Affairs
New Zealand is failing on the promises it has made to give 0.7 percent of its' gross national income to overseas aid. Our governments' overseas development aid spending is currently 0.27 percent – third lowest out of all rich countries. At this rate, we will not reach our promised target until 2050. The government must help MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY by fully committing to spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on overseas aid by 2015. Last year, many other donor countries have set timetables for reaching the 0.7% target by no later than 2015. New Zealand has not. In fact, New Zealand is now one of only six developed countries that have no such timetable.
Click here to email the Foreign Affairs Minister
Email the Minister of Social Development today
It is shocking that in a rich country like New Zealand, one in five children lives below the poverty line. Please email the Minister of Social Development to ask him to take action.
Click here to email the Social Development Minister
Wear a White Band
White bands are a key symbol of MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY. Join thousands of people across the globe and wear a white armband to show your commitment to changing lives of people living in poverty.
Stand Up!
STAND UP is a global advocacy effort to set an official Guinness World Record - the greatest number of people ever to STAND UP Against Poverty and for the Millennium Development Goals - on October 15-16 2006.
Click here to find out more about Stand Up!
Download our Petition
Collect signatures from friends, family, colleagues - anyone who cares about eradicating poverty. We need as many signatures as possible to show the government that New Zealanders do care and that we do want change.
Click here to download.
Tell People about Make Poverty History
Give a talk at your workplace, school or church about the Millennium Development Goals and the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY campaign.
Write to your MP
Email or write to your Member of Parliament. Make sure your local Member knows that you think that world poverty is something that that can be eliminated and that New Zealand has a responsibility to do its fair share to make sure this happens. Here's how to do it.
Download our Action Kit packages
Get Active
Some ideas about how you can take action:
• Set up a local MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY group to organise action.
• Encourage others to get involved with MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY.
• Support existing activities and campaigns that fit in with the messages of MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY.
• Ask shops to put white bands on their window dummies.
• Put White Bands on trees, lamp posts, and statues around your town.
• ‘White Band' a local monument.
• Organise a MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY stall in the town centre.
• Encourage local celebrities and sports teams to wear a White Band.
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