Will Make Poverty History be forgotten?

Well, let’s hope not, but one could see it happening. Here are various jumbled up quotes from articles I’ve been reading because my drawing is not going according to plan.

The UK is concerned that the international focus will move on from development now Russia has assumed the presidency of the G8

So says this Ekklesia report commenting on Gordon Brown’s article in last week’s Guardian. As Gordon Brown says:

In 2006 we will be judged not just on willing the millennium development goals but on delivering the resources to achieve them. All involved will have to prove that making poverty history is not just a passing fashion but a commitment for our generation.

To quote this piece in the Scotsman by Richard Saville-Smith of Save the Children:

Despite the clear demands of the public to end this injustice, world leaders didn’t do all they could to make child poverty history. Until no child goes to bed hungry and every child goes to school, gets treated when they are ill and is protected from violence, the campaigning must go on.

Together we will go on to hold leaders to the promises they made in 2005.