Interviews

Article by Precious Jempeji & Ashiya Mendheria 9r

We are Year 9 students from Preston Manor, and we called charity organisations to find out their views and opinions on Poverty. Firstly we called Roger Elbourne from the 'Make Poverty History' charity organisation, London branch, to ask him whether we were able to interview him. He willingly accepted.

His overall view was that: 'There is an impossible end to poverty; however in some countries in particular, it could end if their government put their minds to it'.

The 'Make Poverty History' organisation helps over 70 countries in Africa, Asia, and the UK. He also reckons that they are 'doing better than the government'.

The second person we spoke to was a staff member of the 'Oxfam' charity organisation and her overall opinion on Poverty was that 'The rules of unfair trade should be changed and the local government from their countries should set up health care services. Also poverty is possible to end if more people get involved'.

The 'Oxfam' organisation uses a range of approaches to achieve change and improve people's lives including saving lives through emergency response and campaigning to achieve lasting change.

We thanked these people for their time and help.