We are not a campaigning organization. We don’t advocate a specific solution to global poverty. We want people to ask questions and take action but we’re not pushing them towards any one single answer.
However, we’ve had a huge response to our films from people who’ve been prompted to take action.
We’re not endorsing the work of the organizations below, but they are good places to start finding out more about the issues raised in the films and getting involved in fixing them.
Every year 130 million babies are born. Their life chances are a lottery depending on where that happens. In Europe, six babies per 1000 will die before their first birthday. In Africa, it’s 82. In Sierra Leone, one in eight mothers die in childbirth. These are organizations committed to improving the situation for mothers throughout the world and providing equality of access to health care for all.
Medicine Sans Frontieres
Partners in Health
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Unicef
What can we learn from the history of poverty that will help us tackle it in the future? How can this knowledge lead to significant change? These are some organizations grappling with this big ideas.
Transparency International
Alliance 2015
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Whiteband
Inequality is destructive for societies at every level. In developed countries like America, the gap between rich and poor is growing. In emerging economies, like India and China, the very poorest aren't sharing the new wealth. These are organizations working for greater equality in society.
Transparency International
Global Poverty Project
The amount of money the developing world receives as aid is dwarfed by the amount flowing out: eight to ten times as much. Some of if it disappears through corruption and crime. Vast sums are lost through trade deals and legal tax evasion. These are organizations working for tax justice, greater transparency and an end to corruption.
Transparency International
Tackle Tax Havens
The Tax Justice Network
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Raising money for development is harder than ever, and people from both from the developed and developing world are skeptical of aid's effectiveness. It has the potential to achieve a great deal. These are organizations looking at how to make aid more effective and to tackle poverty on multiple fronts.
Global Poverty Project
One
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As food prices rise, fertile land is a valuable and expensive commodity. Companies from richer nations are buying up the land in poorer countries, often taking it from people who have farmed the land for generations but have no formal ownership of it. Is this a new kind of land grab or the only way to feed the world? These are organiations active in land, food and fair trade.
Alliance 2015
International Land Coaltion
The Fairtrade Foundation
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Via Campesina, the International Peasants Movement
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Education is aroute out of poverty for people everyhwere. Yet many young people have no access to education, or have to work to support their families. Equal education for all is a major goal that needs tackling at many levels. Find local organisations in your area or nternational groups.
Alliance 2015
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Global Poverty Project
Millions of women around the world are denied access to education and employment. This is a violation of their rights – it’s also stopping them becomign a major force for development and erradication of poverty. These are local and international organisations working to change the situation, Look for the organisations where you can get involved by starting with the links below.
Self Employed Women’s Association
The Barefoot college
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Whiteband