Emmy Award-Winning actress Claire Danes unveiled Save the Children’s unique visual petition in Grand Central Terminal in New York City on Monday, September 20. Danes, along with three million people over 40 countries, lent their thumbprints to Save the Children’s EVERY ONE campaign. Jasmine Whitbread, CEO, Save the Children, and local New York children add their support to this initiative that pressures world leaders to do more to stop children dying needlessly of preventable and treatable causes. For more information, please visit http://www.everyone.org/ for the global EVERY ONE campaign and http://www.goodgoes.org/ in the U.S.
The thumbprints will be handed over to a high level representative of the United Nations, which hosts a summit this week to review progress on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed targets to tackle poverty. Save the Children is calling for an action plan to be agreed to by all governments, to reach the Millennium Goal of cutting child deaths by two thirds by 2015. Hitting this target would save the lives of 15 million children by 2015, the charity said.
Hopefully all the world leaders at this weeks UN summit will hear the plea and Help The Children. Call your world leaders and tell them to just do it!
Most info taken from the press release I received at the event.
She is beautiful now – one of those ladies who just gets better with age. 🙂 Looking forward to hearing more about the Save the Children campaign.