Lauren Laverne talks about ‘get together’

Lauren Laverne, famous DJ and television presenter, has spoken out about how getting together with friends can change the lives of women living in poverty.

While hosting the launch event for the Oxfam Get Together, she not only talked of her wish to ‘galvanise people to do stuff for Oxfam’, but later reinforced the importance of the campaign by tweeting ‘If your #gettogether raises just £46, that's enough for @oxfamgb to train one midwife and save LOADS of lives.’

At the Oxfam Get Together launch event in London, attended by many high profile and inspiring women including Miquita Oliver and Jane Shepherdson, Lauren Laverne showed us that hosting a ‘get together’ is the perfect excuse to catch up with friends whilst making a real difference. Your fundraising will support women like Sanatu in Ghana, where the track record for maternal health is one of the poorest in existence. Living in rural areas, illiteracy, a lack of understanding of their rights and a shortage of trained midwifes mean maternal health is fraught with difficulties and pregnancy can be a worrying, even dangerous time. Your support of Oxfam projects enable women like Sanatu to have a safe pregnancy and birth, living to see the face of their newborn child.

Laverne’s own ‘get together’ with friends is just one of many Oxfam is hoping to see in the run up to International Women’s Day on the 8th March 2012. She expressed her wish that others would follow in her footsteps and host their own event, urging ‘Please do a thing – it doesn’t matter how small it is, but please do a thing.’