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We march to end child poverty
04 Oct 2008
Community Links supported the national 'End Child Poverty' rally this weekend. Local families joined us as we wore our special t-shirts, carried banners and gave out leaflets to call on the government to ‘keep their promise’ and halve child poverty levels by 2010 and eradicate it by 2020. The government needs to have programmes in place, adequately funded in the budget, by spring 2009. With an uncertain financial situation, the government has to take action, and quickly which it will only do with significant public pressure. This is why Community Links supports the Campaign to ‘End Child Poverty’.
Community Links and local residents attending the End Child Poverty rally were also part of the national ‘Need not Greed’ campaign, which originated from the grassroots experiences of people in Newham. ‘Need not Greed’ is about understanding that people trapped in poverty work cash-in-hand out of need not greed, and require support and guidance to make the transition into formal work and out of poverty. The campaign seeks to change attitudes to people working cash-in-hand. Policy changes are need to encourage parents to come forward and formalise their informal paid work, which in turn will increase their income levels, so lifting their children out of poverty and social exclusion.
Maeve McGoldrick, linksUK Campaigns Coordinator says, “our work and research over the last 30 years shows that poverty has a life time impact on our children and young people. A child that grows up lacking resources and educational and employment opportunities, becomes the next generation of struggling parents, so the cycle continues.”
Read more about the march and watch a video on the linksUK blog. For more information about 'Need Not Greed', contact Maeve McGoldrick.
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