Michael Elliott, president and CEO of the UK-based ONE Campaign, an
international, nonpartisan, non-profit, advocacy and campaigning organisation
that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, has
issued the following statement following Nelson Mandela’s death:
“As Mandela said in his extraordinary 2005 speech in London’s Trafalgar Square,
‘Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be
overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.’
And he ended his speech with a call that moves us still.
‘Sometimes,’ Mandela said, ‘it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be
that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.’
One way to honour Nelson Mandela’s memory is to share those words to prove
every day that this generation can be the great one that ends extreme
poverty.’
Go to http://www.one.org/mandela/?
akid=4061.5010061.2kElfG&rd=1&t=3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=email
to pay tribute to Madiba.
