Northern Ireland campaigns against poverty
Two events back Save the Children's campaign to end child poverty.
Monday 22 October 2007
Stand up, Sing out against poverty
At lunchtime on Wednesday 17 October, students of all ages joined anti-poverty campaigners on the steps of the Students' Union, Queen's University Belfast, to sing out against poverty. Choir of Glencraig Integrated Primary School sang 'Without Love' and the Séile Women's Singing Group performed 'Nkosi Sikeleli'.
Primary, secondary and grammar schools across Northern Ireland also took part in their own special assemblies and events throughout the week, using tailored educational resources provided by the local GCAP coalition.
Save the Children calls on Executive to Give Child Poverty the Sack
To mark the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Save the Children campaigners delivered sacks of campaign cards to the First and Deputy First Minister and to MLAs, urging them to make ending child poverty a key priority.
Over the summer, members of the public completed more than 6000 campaign cards at popular events across the country. The cards call on the First and Deputy First Minister to prioritise child poverty in the Programme for Government and Budget, to sign up to the UK-wide targets of halving child poverty by 2010 and ending it by 2020 and to involve children and young people experiencing poverty in developing actions to end child poverty.
Photo caption: Save the Children campaigners Corrine Heaney and Cherith Poots delivering sacks of cards to Stormont calling for the government to end child poverty in Northern Ireland.
