Former S Club 7 star Rachel Stevens has given her support to the Make Poverty History campaign, after opening a display at the Oxo Tower on London’s South Bank organised by the Global Campaign for Education (which is part of Make Poverty History).

Thousands of cut-out figures, or 'buddies’, made by school children in the UK and around the world represented the one hundred million children who never get the chance to go to school.

In Rachel’s words: “The buddies made in this massive campaign are to show world leaders they must act to get every child into school.” She was joined at the opening on 16 June 2005 by pupils from Birkbeck Primary School and Langdon School and Kailash Satyarthi, chair and co-founder of the Global Campaign for Education.

Danish artist Olafur Eliasson created the setting for the buddies. His Weather Project (which became known as the Tate Sunset) attracted huge crowds to Tate Modern in 2003. Yellow Sunlight 2005, a big yellow light ball, was the centrepiece in a temporary dome built outside the.gallery@oxo. Inside the dome a white spotlight moved slowly over a field of thousands of buddies.