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Plans for Campaigning, Not Live Aid II
A Statement from Jamie Drummond, executive director of DATA, the group co-founded by Bono to advocate for Africa. DATA works closely with Bob Geldof:
"There are no plans currently for Live Aid 2. Live AID raised $200 million, but Africa and the poorest nations need more than $200 billion in additional aid over the next five years to truly beat AIDS and extreme poverty. Bono and Bob Geldof are both focused on campaigning in the run-up to the G8 to pressurize wealthy countries into giving more effective aid and debt cancellation and changing international trade rules so that Africa has a chance to fight AIDS and extreme poverty and earn its own way to a prosperous future.
In the U.S. those efforts are focused on the ONE campaign, an effort to get Americans ONE by ONE to support the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty and committing 1 percent more of the federal budget to effective assistance.
In the UK those efforts are focused on getting Tony Blair to commit the UK to giving 0.7 percent of its GDP in effective aid, and to ensuring that Blair's Africa Commission delivers a meaningful plan to help Africa achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015."
For more information, visit DATA.org and theONEcampaign.org or for media inquiries, please call 202/639-8010.
DATA's initials come from Debt AIDS Trade Africa, as well as DemocracyAccountability Transparency Africa.
-- DATA
A Statement from Jamie Drummond, executive director of DATA, the group co-founded by Bono to advocate for Africa. DATA works closely with Bob Geldof:
"There are no plans currently for Live Aid 2. Live AID raised $200 million, but Africa and the poorest nations need more than $200 billion in additional aid over the next five years to truly beat AIDS and extreme poverty. Bono and Bob Geldof are both focused on campaigning in the run-up to the G8 to pressurize wealthy countries into giving more effective aid and debt cancellation and changing international trade rules so that Africa has a chance to fight AIDS and extreme poverty and earn its own way to a prosperous future.
In the U.S. those efforts are focused on the ONE campaign, an effort to get Americans ONE by ONE to support the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty and committing 1 percent more of the federal budget to effective assistance.
In the UK those efforts are focused on getting Tony Blair to commit the UK to giving 0.7 percent of its GDP in effective aid, and to ensuring that Blair's Africa Commission delivers a meaningful plan to help Africa achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015."
For more information, visit DATA.org and theONEcampaign.org or for media inquiries, please call 202/639-8010.
DATA's initials come from Debt AIDS Trade Africa, as well as DemocracyAccountability Transparency Africa.
-- DATA
