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Positive Steps Oldham Backs White Band Day
Medtia Place, home to local independent organisation Positive Steps Oldham, joins St Paul’s Cathedral, the Sidney Harbour Bridge, Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and the Trevi Fountain in Rome today, as it sports a huge white banner in support of the Make Poverty History Campaign.
Coming just 5 days before world leaders arrive at Gleneagles for the G8 summit and a mere 24 hours before Live8 concerts are broadcast around the world, this first White Band Day mobilisation marks the occasion when millions of people will call on their leaders in developed countries to honour their promises on more and better aid, trade justice and debt cancellation.
Campaigners across developing countries will also reiterate demands on their leaders for transparent poverty reduction initiatives and challenge them to aggressively fight corruption.
Tim Mitchell, Chief Executive of Positive Steps Oldham, said: “Positive Steps Oldham is devoted to helping people overcome their barriers and fulfil their potential.
“In the developing world poverty is a matter of life and death but also robs people of the possibility of fulfilling their potential. We feel it is important for us to lend what support we can to this hugely important campaign and in doing so demonstrate to the young people that we work with that it is possible to make a difference.”
Positive Steps Oldham (formerly OEBGS) in an Oldham-based not-for-profit company that delivers an integrated range of young people-focused services. These services include Connexions, the information, advice and guidance service for all 13 – 19 year olds and Oldham Youth Offending Service, which works to reduce youth crime.
Also managed through Positive Steps Oldham (PSO) are Oldham Teenage Pregnancy Partnership, working to reduce teenage conception rates, and Oldham Drugs and Alcohol Action Team, a strategic partnership that seeks to combat drug and alcohol-related harm.
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