Blog Action Day - If Bono can do his bit, then so can we!
Bono, rock super star and front man for the legendary Irish rock band U2, has recently been to New York for the Millenium Goals Summit or the MGS for short.
What is the MGS? It is where decisions are made and goals are set to help change the planet for the better and help millions of people in poverty. They have given themselves 15 years to complete their goals and so far they are halfway though that timescale. There were three goals that Bono wanted to achieve. They were to discuss how strong the poor are and how the rich nned to understand how fragile life is, release €1 billion in cash from the European Union Common Agricultural Policy. The British farmers will not qualify for it this year which is down to the high cost of produce in the UK but the farmers in Africa will certainly benefit from it. He finally wants to show to people what has worked and what hasn’t.
So what have they achieved so far? They have put money into the countries that have proved they want help and will do what it takes to improve their lives. This helps towards setting up busimess, getting farmers started and has even helped over 29 million children start school and get the education they want, need and deserve.
Bono has had various meetings with world leaders, politicians, NGOs and faith leaders like Gordon Brown and President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, to help stamp out poverty and raise more and more awareness on the issues that are affecting not just the under developed countries but across the entire planet.
Bono was interviewed before all the meetings started by Alan Beatty of the Financial Times. You can read the full interview at the Financial Times web site.
So what can you do to help? Today is International Blog Action day and it’s all about poverty. You can register your blog and add to the thousands of people writing on this topic today. You can help raise donations or just educate yourself on issues related to world poverty. The more people that are aware, the more people there is to help do something about it.
Visit the Blog Action site and take a look for yourself. Get as involved as you can and together we can all do our bit for our planet.