23.5 million People Stood Up Against Poverty

October 15-16
Official Guinness World Record

A new Guinness World Record for the largest number of people to "STAND UP AGAINST POVERTY" was set on October 15-16, 2006. In just 24 hours, 23,542,614 participants took part in 11,646 events in more than 100 countries to demand action against poverty and remind world leaders of their promise to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015.

From cricket fans in India to school children in Gaza and the West Bank to crowds at a concert in a slum in Zimbabwe, people across the world stood together to send a clear message to our governments that we can and must do more to eliminate global poverty.  

In the U.S., NetAid teens from California to New Jersey organized STAND UP events in schools and communities. In Times Square in New York City, NetAid Global Citizen Corps leaders joined United Nations Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown, Queen Noor of Jordan, HH Swami Ramdev and thousands more to make their voices heard.

Launched by the United Nations Millennium Campaign, STAND UP is an initiative designed to coincide with the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) month of mobilization around the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP) on October 17. NetAid is a member of the Millennium Campaign and the Global Call to Action Against Poverty.