World Vision ‘Mount’ a G8 Summit Challenge to World Leaders

The World Vision charity sent their own light hearted message at Heathrow Airport to the world leaders who will be travelling to the G8 Summit in Canada. Supporters dressed as Canadian Mounties with world leaders faces printed onto masks in a bid to highlight the desperate need to help tackle the global child health crisis.

The G8 promised in their ‘Millennium Development Goals’ a decade ago to halve global poverty by 2015, yet despite progress, nearly 9 million children under the age of 5 die every year. Many of these deaths are caused by easily preventable diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea. The G8 needs to act now to fulfil their promises, and with only 5 years remaining, the clock is ticking.

The World Vision children’s charity will be pushing their message of change at the G8 meeting in Muskoka, Canada. Action, not words, needs to be taken today to give the children of tomorrow the opportunity at a better life. World leaders need to fulfil their promises of 2000 that global poverty would be halved. At the current rate of change, this promise looks a long way off and needs to addressed before it’s too late.

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