Striving Together to End Poverty
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- All people can contribute to the World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty. On a local level they can meet up to bring together their ideas for action.

- Personalities on a national or international level can show their support for the World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty by signing the Call to Action, by taking part in events on October 17, and by talking publicly about their involvement.

- The media can announce the World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty in their programmes and articles, and provide free advertising space.

- Public authorities can support the Day by publicising it, financing it or by providing material support.

- Individuals can financially support the Day to help cover its expenses, especially in collecting signatures for the Call to Action and the organisation of events on the World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty.

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In a women’s group of Tandale, we discussed about the question of money at school. Primary school is in theory free, but in fact we have to pay a lot of things. A teacher recently told some (...)
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Tandale - group 1 In our women’s group at Tandale, we discovered that we were many parents faced with the problem of not having the birth certificate for one or more of our children. One (...)
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I’m coming from Tandale and I am part of the women’s group that shared ideas and experiences about the education of our children. We all agreed that they have to behave well at home (...)
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