Happy New Year from Generation Why!
OK, so it was a couple of days ago now, but we all hope you had a cracking New Year, and a good break too. Whilst we acclimatise to the strange sensation of being at work again, we thought you might want to read our rather magnificent review of 2005. It was a truly amazing year, thanks to the incredible energy of 1,000,000s of people like YOU. The challenge is to build on that energy in 2006 - you can kick off by signing up to the "I'm In" pledge. As it says on the banners: "If you give a damn, give us your name".
One other thing: whilst we were idling at home on New Year's Day, we read this interesting piece in The Observer about celebrity and charity, the achievements of 2005 and where next for Africa in 2006. As it says: "In 2005, a generation primed for action got the politics of delusion. In 2006, it is time to take a lesson from a land whose many plagues rarely include star-worship." Just thought you might like to have a read, too.
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I think this article definitely understands the love-hate relationship between charities and Bob Geldof! We'll have to work twice as hard this year to keep up the pressure because the high profile of the campaign will disappear very easily.
By Edd,
January 03, 2006 3:47 PM
I totally agree with Edd that we will have to keep up the pressure because the year 2005 was very much the year of MAKE POVERTY HISTORY and it would be very easy for people to think that now that 2005 is out of the way, so is the campaign and the issues it stood for. This is not the case, and as the initial article stated, this is what we now have to build on in 2006.
Happy New Year everybody - lets make 2006 equally, if not more, successful as 2005.
By Mark,
January 03, 2006 4:54 PM
I hope, beyond hope that the 2005 campaign has installed a sense of awareness into people that will drive them to push the word poverty right out of the dictionary and into history.
Together we can achieve this! Each one of us has the power.
By G,
January 03, 2006 7:04 PM
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