Yesterday on my radio programme I spoke to Andrew Broadbent, the WA State Coordinator for Tear Australia about The Micah Challenge.
The Micah Challenge is a Christian response to world poverty. It’s an initiative that has brought together many aid agencies and church bodies.
Their website says; Micah Challenge is a global Christian campaign. Our aims are to deepen our engagement with the poor; and to challenge leaders to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and so halve absolute global poverty by 2015!
They outline a number of ways that you can stand up for those suffer daily through poverty including signing an online petition.
If you’re serious about making changes in our world I would strongly encourage you to get involved. If you’re not someone who considers yourself to be a Christian and you still want to hold our world leaders accountable for their decisions regarding poverty, The Micah Challenge is working hand in hand with the wider reaching Make Poverty History campaign.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
Do you think some of your friends would enjoy reading Standing against poverty? Please use the buttons below to share the post. Thanks.
At least in Australia we have the issue of poverty well in hand . . . well we must have, in the late 1980’s didn’t Bob Hawke (Prime Minister at the time) famously say “No child will be living in poverty by 1990”? So it must be true 🙂
I’m not entirely sure if Australia has the issue of poverty well in hand when you look at some communities and places, and read about families struggling to make ends meet…but then again, I’m not the expert on poverty in Australia.
Then again, there is a bigger issue at hand – that of thousands of children dying simply because the country they live in is so heavily in debt, it has no time for its own citizens.
Also check out Jubliee Australia
Sorry Mel, wasn’t meant to be taken seriously. This is kind of a running joke in Australia. Bob Hawke made this grand announcement that no child would be living in poverty by 1990, and, well, nothing changed!
It was a case of trying to come up with the most ridiculous, unattainable election promise possible. I think Bob won with that ridiculous statement.
It was one of those things that kept coming back to haunt him.
(And obviously still is coming back for him. 🙂 )
*the light dawns*
I really need to understand you strange Aussies more…;)