Posted to the web 3 July 2008 Global leaders will travel to the G8 summit in Japan next week knowing that the promises they have made to help end global poverty are threatening to amount to nothing more than a brief footnote in the history books. Without urgent action, the great tidal wave of optimism that was generated the last time the meeting was hosted by the Japanese in 2000 is in danger of dying away. Through our work with Oxfam, each of us has been involved in the ongoing fight to end extreme poverty. Whether in classrooms in India, orphanages in South Africa, camps in Chad, farms in Ethiopia or health clinics in Tanzania, many of us have witnessed at first hand that aid works; that ordinary people achieve remarkable things every day but also that there is a great deal more that needs to be done. The Millennium...
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