MP's call to fight poverty
Wigan MP Neil Turner is urging people to back a promise to fight global poverty.
He wants people across Wigan to go online and back a new campaign to turn a promise to tackle global poverty into a law.
The website is part of a campaign to put the Government's promise to raise international development aid to 0.7% of national income by 2013 into legislation.
Mr Turner said: "People across Wigan are proud of what we've achieved and the help we've given to people living lives of poverty in developing countries.
"We've campaigned to Make Poverty History and kept our promises through this global recession.
"I am urging people to go online and join me in backing globalpovertypromise.com
"Aid increases and debt cancellation have helped to get 40 million more children into school, while the number of people with access to AIDS treatment has increased from just 100,000 to more than four million."
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