Make Poverty History: the (brilliant) story so far
 As 2005 draws to a wintry close, and we build up to the WTO meeting in December (as well as White Band Day 3), we thought it would be great to look back at what Make Poverty History has already achieved this year. OK, so let's blind you with some magnificent statistics. The Make Poverty History coalition now represents 540 organisations, with a combined membership of a whopping 15 million people. A quite unbelievable 10 million white bands have been sold, and the Make Poverty History website has received 22 million visits - the highest for any NGO.
That's not all - 100,000s of people have taken further action to put pressure on world leaders and organisations to make poverty history. Over 444,000 e-mails have been sent to Tony Blair, asking him to put an end to global poverty. What's more, well over 200,000 online votes have been cast for trade justice, a significant part of the 650,000 votes to date.
And when you combine all this with the 20,000 people who braved the cold back in February to hear Nelson Mandela launch the campaign, the 25,000 who stayed up all night for trade justice in April and the 225,000 who took part in the Edinburgh rally before the G8 summit, not forgetting the 8,000 who got drenched lobbying their MP for trade justice the other week, and you've got yourself a pretty amazing year.
No doubt about it, all this popular action has really helped to raise awareness of the issues, and focus the minds of the world's leaders on what they should be doing about global poverty. The challenge now is to make sure they deliver.
Find what you can do to keep the pressure on and support White Band Day 3 here >>
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