Stand Up Take Action 2008

The Millenium Declaration signed in 2000 promised to achieve the 8 Millennium Development Goals by 2015. These goals are: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability and develop a global partnership for development. Eight years later, awareness is more widespread, but we need to work on achieving these goals by 2015.

Half of the world's population lives on less than $2 per day and everyday, 50,000 people die because of extreme poverty. With all the technology that can empower us and is within our reach nowadays, regular people like me and you can work on changing that (you can also work on that if you're irregular or a just a victim of your fame).

This year between October 17 and 19, millions of people will STAND UP and TAKE ACTION against poverty and for moving with the Millennium Development Goals.
STAND UP TAKE ACTION is a global campaign to spread awareness and encourage people to take action and participate in making change happen.
Last year, over 43 million people in more than 100 countries stood up. This year, over 67 million are expected to STAND UP and TAKE ACTION.

The campaign is taking place in Lebanon through the Art of Living foundation. Schools in a lot of regions have been contacted to participate in the event. To see the events taking place in Lebanon, check out www.standagainstpoverty.org (even though last time I checked, it was not yet mapped).
Each one of us can contribute. We have to realize that we live on the same planet.

OK, enough with all the Jeffrey Sachs sappiness.
Point is: you can really make a difference, even in the slightest way.
So Stand Up and Take Action.