PUPILS from The Petersfield School joined millions of campaigners across Britain with their own call to "Make Poverty History". They made their voices heard in Petersfield on by wrapping a gigantic banner around the tower of St Peter's Church in The Square. Part of the school's citizenship programme this term has focused on teaching the children how young people around the world live different lives from their own, with 30,000 a day dying from easily-preventable causes. As part of their topic they made, with their teacher John Callaghan, a huge banner spelling out the message "Make Poverty History". After making the banner at school, TPS pupils, Mr Callaghan and John Eames, regional manager of Tearfund, climbed to the top of the church tower and wrapped their banner around it. It was a message they sent to Prime Minister Tony Blair at the G8 summit in Edinburgh on Wednesday of this week as he prepared to meet other world leaders to debate international aid for poor countries. Mr Callaghan said: "The pupils cannot understand why we don't do something to stop this. They have been so interested and keen to make a difference. Young people are the answer to the world's problems, and they just want to get on with it."
