Tearfund challenged the Make Poverty History campaigners to re-intensify pressure on the world leaders though the progress achieved at the G8 summit held 6th-8th July 2005 in Gleneagles.
During the summit G8 leaders agreed to raise aid for Africa to £28.8bn. However, activist must ask for faster and deeper progress in the push to make poverty history, Tearfund, the Christian relief agency says.
"There has been progress this week in addressing the awful and pervasive poverty in our world thanks to ordinary people demanding that politicians take action, but there is still a significant gap between what we are asking for and what the G8 have delivered this week," commented Andy Atkins, Advocacy Director of Tearfund.
"The G8 themselves acknowledge that the results from Gleneagles were not all that everyone wanted, but that the steps taken will save many lives. We must push the politicians in what remains of 2005 and beyond to take bigger steps forward."
Even though the agreement of leaders to provide aid ensures £28.8bn a year from 2010, still it is five years short of what Make Poverty History was campaigning for.
"Overall it is too little aid being delivered too slowly," says Laura Webster, Tearfund’s aid policy advisor.
"Even the United Nations says that this increase in aid will not be enough to meet the Millennium Development Goals of halving poverty by 2015."
