{"id":392491,"date":"2010-03-05T06:02:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T11:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=11349"},"modified":"2010-03-05T06:02:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T11:02:21","slug":"big-promises-our-pick-of-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/392491","title":{"rendered":"Big Promises? Our pick of the best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/generationwhy\/cgi\/process_comp\/photos\/2010\/03\/bp-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/generationwhy\/cgi\/process_comp\/photos\/2010\/03\/bp-2-180x127.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bp-2\" width=\"180\" height=\"127\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11360\" \/><\/a>We at Oxfam have invented a way for you to give a wake up call to world leaders.  In 2000, leaders of the globe\u2019s most powerful countries met and made some promises.  Some really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/get_involved\/campaign\/health_and_education\/big_promise\/index.html\">Big Promises <\/a>to the world\u2019s poor. They made a series of commitments that could significantly improve the lives of millions of the world\u2019s poorest people. Have a look at my other blog about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=11110&#038;v=campaigns\">Millennium Development Goals <\/a>(MDGs) for more information about them.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it would be complementing world leaders to say that progress, at this point in the critical time period, has been mixed.  Some improvements have been made around the world, including in education, but in other areas things have actually been getting worse.  <\/p>\n<p>We at Oxfam have asked you to respond. By committing to keep a promise, as part of the Big Promise, ordinary people are showing world leaders how it\u2019s done. And you\u2019ve responded in your thousands.  Big Promises have been made from Argentina to Australia. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the promises made so far are very sensible &#8211; Anita from Canada promised to donate as much as she could to charity while Matthew from Japan promised to contact world leaders several times a week regarding gross injustice across the globe. Others are a little less serious: Edith Gabriela from Mexico promised to make cookies for all her friends and family, while Claire from the U.K. promised to relax!<\/p>\n<p>My personal favourite? Gayle from Australia promised to do as much as she can to make sure her friends are happy and laugh. Gayle, I hope that you and your friends keep having fun while fighting world poverty!<\/p>\n<p>As for me? I jumped out of a plane &#8211; and it was one of the bravest things I\u2019ve ever done. Floating down over the twinkling lights of Swindon, through pink and purple-tinged clouds, I reflected that its not only keeping MDG promises that can be life changing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/get_involved\/campaign\/health_and_education\/big_promise\/index.html\">Make a Big Promise<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We at Oxfam have invented a way for you to give a wake up call to world leaders. In 2000, leaders of the globe\u2019s most powerful countries met and made some promises. Some really Big Promises to the world\u2019s poor. They made a series of commitments that could significantly improve the lives of millions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}