Rudd in my Address Book

I received an exciting message today while I was doing some emailing: 1 contact has been added to your address book. This new contact is Kevin Rudd, MP.

I emailed Kevin Rudd this morning as part of the Make Poverty History campaign. It was pretty easy, really. I've subscribed to receive updates. Make Poverty History keep me in the know about what Australian leaders are doing about responding to the Millennium Development Goals and working towards ending poverty. As well as receiving info I'm also given ways to respond. So, today I wrote to Mr Rudd to say thank you for the ALP's promise to increase overseas aid to 0.5% of Gross National Income by 2015.

If you want to do the same send me an email and I will forward you the information.
Or check out the international Make Poverty History for yourself.

Here's a few more details from Make Poverty History:

On 4 July 2007, Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd MP, announced a plan to save more lives by promising to increase Australia’s overseas aid to 0.5% of Gross National Income by 2015 (which would increase the aid budget to around $8.8 billion dollars).

If delivered, the extra aid could allow Australia to fund programs to achieve all of the following: reduce child deaths by 140,000 each year, cut maternal deaths by 4,200, lead to at least 29,000 fewer deaths from AIDS and 31,000 fewer deaths from TB each year. It could also provide access to safe drinking water to almost 37 million people.

... In order to build on the momentum of this action, we need your help to:

1. Thank Mr Rudd and the Australian Labor Party for their commitment to poverty relief.
2. Invite the other political parties to match or better this important promise.

Seriously, if you have read this far, you are smart enough to write an email to your local MP : )