H street was the home to the Make Poverty History (MPH) campaign. This global movement that took place in order to present pressures to international institutions to eradicate global poverty. The policies posed would cancel the debts owed by heavily in-debt countries. They would also jump start the aid to these countries in order to make them participants in the global economy.
The campaign gained a lot of attention not just in the district but on the international scale as well. Through protests, celebrity endorsements and large out-door concerts all aided in the mass media attention during the time of the campaign. Trademark bracelets were made and handed out during the upstart of the campaign and became a link between people across the world that believed in this caused.
The Global Call to Action Against Poverty Coalition creators of the MPH are said to involve around 30 million participants from more than 200 countries. In other areas such as Canada, MPH focuses on ending child poverty in Canada.
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