Kids challenge G8 on poverty

May 11, 2005

HUNDREDS of children between three and 10 years turned up at the Get on Board campaign, challenging developed countries to tackle poverty in Africa.

By Fred Ouma

HUNDREDS of children between three and 10 years turned up at the Get on Board campaign, challenging developed countries to tackle poverty in Africa.

The campaign, led by Action Aid Uganda, aims at calling on the G8 leaders to end poverty through action.

Led by four-year-old Princess Sarah Katrina Ssangalyambogo, children in a distressing indictment recorded their voices and wrote messages on cards to be sent to the G8 summit in Scotland in July.

Many adorned red T-shirts inscribed with “Global Call to Action” and “Don’t Make Poverty, Make Poverty History” as they queued to cast their vote on how some of the problems could be solved.

Messages centred on debt cancelling, fair trade terms for Africa, universal primary education and accessing HIV/AIDS drugs.

The Nnabagereka, Sylvia Nagginda, said development can only be realised if the injustice that perpetuates poverty is democratically dealt with.

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