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End poverty 'In My Name', says YouTube

Launches a special channel with renowned NGOs to raise awareness around the UN Millennium Development Goals

Friday, September 26, 2008

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BANGALORE,INDIA: YouTube, Will.i.am, and renowned nonprofit organizations like Oxfam, GCAP, Save the Children and Comic Relief, have launched a special channel on YouTube titled 'In My Name' (www.youtube.com/inmyname).

This initiative is part of the global efforts to raise awareness around the UN Millennium Development Goals, said a press release.

"The deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals is September 2015 -- we must act now if we want to achieve these goals by their deadline," the site declares.

Users around the world can participate in this campaign. From now through November 1, 2008, users can visit www.youtube.com/inmyname to upload a video stating their name, home country, and a simple message for their government about the need to meet the MDGs.

"World leaders have come together in New York City to discuss the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight time-bound, measurable goals that they set in the year 2000 to combat global poverty by 2015. Today, we are halfway there," said the release.

Creative, compelling, simple, or wordy – each video provides a chance to join the video petition to end world hunger, adds the release.

At the end of the program on November 1 2008, a mash-up of the most powerful submissions from around the world will be broadcast directly to global leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, as proof that global citizens are holding them to their commitment to create a better world for everyone.

The video will also be broadcast at YouTube Live!, YouTube's first-ever live event, on November 22 2008.

©CyberMedia News

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girish said on 9/29/2008 1:09:55 PM:
its true that we realize our lives, once realization occurs then it gifts a drastic change

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Sabae said on 9/27/2008 8:56:56 AM:
If we learned to search for the unspun truth and divorce ourselves of accepting the "medias" waste of the gift of language, we WILL realize our world and the lives of every human is worth the effort it takes to make change. If change is the ONLY constant lets make it work for us!

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charles said on 9/26/2008 3:34:55 PM:
its good

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