Help the Oxfam Australia charity to demand world leaders keep to their word and provide decent health care for the world’s poorest people by knitting a patch for their giant baby blanket.

In the some of the world’s poorer countries, many mums don’t survive the birth their babies. In less than a year, half a million mums will die in poorly equipped hospitals because they can’t afford to pay health care fees. Numerous promises to end this travesty have falling well short in providing enough aid to deliver the medical services required to care for the sick.

Oxfam Australia is calling for knitters across the globe to help send a visual petition to world leaders in September 2008, to show that people won’t sit silently while this injustice continues. Oxfam are hoping for 250,000 ‘patches for poverty’ - one for every mum who should have survived pregnancy in the last six months.

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