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Get On Board - ActionAid
As part of the Make Poverty History campaign an ActionAid team are driving a bus from South Africa, through Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya to bring the voices of people in Africa directly to the G8 summit in Scotland in July.
Thousands of messages and people’s stories are being collected in the form of pictures, words, audio and video bringing a new and personal reality to the issues of Aid, Trade and Debt and how they affect the lives of African men, women and children.
The team are giving a voice to people living with HIV/Aids who even if they can get the ARV drugs they need cannot take them as they do not have enough to eat, orphans, students, children who cannot go to school for the lack of a single dollar a month, single mothers, grandparents looking after their grandchildren, teachers who despair when poverty prevents children from coming to school and so many more.
Big Umbrella is working with ActionAid and has visited the bus in Tanzania to film and record some of the voices and messages at rallies in Dar es Salaam and Bagamoyo. We are developing both television and radio projects with the team in the run up to the Gleneagles meeting of world leaders.
Link here to the Get on Board web site and sign up for daily email diaries of the bus’s journey.
“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way, do not hesitate.”
Nelson Mandela
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