Dear Mr Tony Blair, I am writing to you to support the pledge to make poverty history, and forget the dept to third world countries

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Meghann Thorp

19 Sandringham Close

Winsford

Cheshire

CW7 2RT

June 05

Tony Blair

10 Downing Street

London

England

Dear Mr Tony Blair,

I am writing to you to support the pledge to make poverty history, and forget the dept to third world countries. As a result to extreme poverty, a person dies every three seconds. The gap between the world's rich and poor has never been wider. Malnutrition, AIDS, conflict and literacy are a daily reality for millions.

This can be stopped now. The G8 meeting in Edinburgh can achieve the promise made in 2002 to third world countries to half poverty by 2015. You have the power to save lives and ensure that the other richer countries cancel the immense amount of money owed.

Only half of African children will complete primary school, 1 in 6 children will die before their 5th birthday and 35,000 people die every day. Surely that is enough information for everyone that things have got out of hand.

There are three main problems which have led to poverty which is prevalent