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"Stand up!" a great success

(Duisburg, October 2006) STAND UP is a mobilization initiative designed to coincide with global mobilizations around the International Day of Poverty Eradication and the White Band Day of the Global Call to Action against Poverty. It relies fully on citizen participation in that it mobilizes all individuals, everywhere, to take part in local, group events around the world through which they use their bodies (rather than their voices) as concrete symbols of MDG advocacy.

Kindernothilfe-Mitarbeiter bei der Stand up Aktion vor der Geschäftsstelle90 colleagues at Kindernothilfe's main office in Duisburg took part. Picture: Krämer 
Monitored by Guinness World Records the STAND UP challenge took take place between 10.00am (GMT) 15 October to 10.00am (GMT) 16 October. During this time thousands of people stood up all over the world. In schools, universities, offices, churches, town halls and at sporting events and concerts.

We were particularly pleased that so many of our partner organisations reacted to our appeal: 18 organisations from Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Malawi, Ethiopia, Zambia, Rwanda, Swaziland, Brazil, The Philippines, Indonesia and Bangladesh have already sent us information and photos.

On October 17, the UN anti-poverty day, the UN General Secretary Kofi Anan announced the number of people across the world who took part in "The Stand Up against poverty" event of the United Nation's Millennium Campaign:

Partner FCE Jimma bei der Stand up AktionPicture: Kindernothilfe 
23,542,614 people in 87 countries stood up to end poverty and to achieve the Millennium Goals set by the United Nations. At the same moment, Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, a former director of the United Nation's Environmental Programme (UNEP) announced the number of participants in Germany at the Federal Government's press conference: 151,331 people in Germany stood up symbolically to end poverty and to show their support for the UN Millennium Development Goals( more information at http://www.millenniumcampaign.de/). Among them were over 90 colleagues at Kindernothilfe's main office in Duisburg. Afterwards, Duisburg's lord mayor also took part in the follow-up discussions on the event with our board chairman Dr. Thiesbonenkamp

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