Why #Blogladesh?

We are out here telling our story to you for one simple reason. We want our words and our pictures to move you to action, to mobilise you to want to help us push for change.

How? At the end of September Nick Clegg is representing the UK at the UN Summit in New York. Here he has an unprecidated chance, along with other world leaders, to make increased International Aid a political and financial priority. The amounts of money we are talking are minimal. What we need are a will and a commitment for rich nations to start ACTING. Ten years ago the richest nations, along with the UK, committed to reaching the Millenium Development goals, to help eradicate global poverty, disease, and hunger. Our campaign focused on two areas – to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality. UN leaders are massively behind in meeting the targets set for 2015 and NOW is the time to act.

We want to send Nick Clegg to the Summit with a clear message: that nine million children under five still dying from preventable diseasesevery year is NOT RIGHT and that we want to see our country committed to helping making this a thing of the past.

We want you to Press for Change.

You can do this by signing our petition, either via facebook or on the Save the Children website. Share it with your friends and family. We already have 10,000 signatures. If each one of you got ten friends to sign we would already have reached our goal of 100,000 signatures.

And keep reading.

Later I have a story to tell you of what I am seeing out here in rural Barisal. Save the Children projects are WORKING. The cost is minimal yet the impact is astounding – I am going to SHOW you this. Projects like this are still in a minority in countries like Bangladesh. We need to give more people the hope and the chance for transformation I have been seeing out here. We need the UN countries to commit to the aid needed to make this happen.

The Press for Change campaign is a global campaign. All over the world people are adding signatures and thumb prints to their own petition. In down-town Dhaka we visited a shopping centre where people qued to make their mark and make their voices heard that they want change too.

Add you voice to their voice.

Because together we CAN make things happen. Enough voices shouting loud enough cannot be ignored.

Thank you.