TUMAYO TAYO
Labanan ang Kahirapan. Tuparin ang Millennium Development Goals.
(Stand Up Against Poverty, Stand Up for the Millennium Development Goals)
MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
On the two days prior to the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (Oct 17), people from all around our planet will rise as one in a GLOBAL BAYANIHAN effort to tell the world's leaders to keep the promises made in 2000 to make lives better and cut poverty in half by 2015.
Join 6 billion other voices speaking as one to MAKE POVERTY HISTORY! Join the TUMAYO TAYO PILIPINAS campaign and be one with our brothers & sisters across the globe in an advocacy effort to set an official Guinness World Record for the most number of people ever to Stand Up against poverty! Within a 24-hour period, people from all over the globe will physically and symbolically "STAND UP" to raise awareness of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to publicly demonstrate to policy makers the growing global support for the achievement of the MDGs and for the strengthening of development policies worldwide.
Participate by organizing your own Tumayo Tayo event within the allotted timeframe - 6pm of Oct 15 to 6pm of Oct 16, Philippine Time. Register your event at the website, www.millenniumcampaign.ph. Other contact details are indicated in the attached documents.
You may also opt to have yourself counted at the Tumayo Tayo Festival at the Marikina Freedom park; or any Tumayo Tayo event already registered at the website. Text your individual participation to 2948 (Globe, Sun, Touch Mobile) or 3940 (Smart, Talk & Text, Addict Mobile) using the keywords MDG REG
The Tumayo Tayo Festival will have a Rock Concert organized by Rock Ed on October 15, Sunday, from 4pm to 9pm, featuring:
� Juan Pablo Dream
� Up Dharma Down
� Radioactive Sago Project
� Monster Bot
� Giniling Festival
� Brown Man Revival
� Protein Shake
� Juana
� Paraluman
� Calla Lily
� 6CycleMind
� Sandwich.
October 16 , Monday, at the Tumayo Tayo Festival features an MDG Fair from 6am to 6pm, with launchings and exhibitions of MDG knowledge products, artworks, performance arts, film showings, etc; and with performances by Cynthia Alexander, Bayang Barrios, Bungkos Palay, and other artists.
WE ARE THE FIRST GENERATION THAT CAN ERADICATE POVERTY
For more information, visit www.millenniumcampaign.ph or email millenniumcampaign.ph@undp.org. You may also text MDG to 2948 (Globe, Sun, Touch Mobile) or 3940 (Smart, Talk & Text, Addict Mobile) for information, MDG updates and mobile content keywords.
"TUMAYO TAYO PILIPINAS! Labanan ang kahirapan. Tuparin ang Millennium Development Goals."
