If you have not checked out the Make Poverty History website recently then do so.

If you are not able to get to Edinburgh this weekend (as I am not due to the double celebration of my daughters birthday and baptism)the MPH website gives you many other things that you can still do.

Last week I had a letter from my MP with updated information on the debt relief and aid situation. This encouraged me as he wrote because I had written a while ago (to which he had already responded)about the campaign. He was updating me further which I think shows that, at last, the government is taking this seriously.

I was in a discussion a little while ago who thought, in a very American way, that the situation was not as simple as Bob Geldof was outlining. I know I am passionate and sometimes idealistic (comes with being young!!) but it really is simple!

This weekend, and over the next few days, these 8 people have the power to change the world. How cool is that!! These 8 people can really make a difference; they can do what many only ever dream about – they really can be history makers. They can do down in history as the people who cared enough to act.

The decisions can be made. This weekend in my house there will be a candle burning as a vigil to remind us to offer up prayers. We need to be praying that these 8 leaders take the opportunity and change the world for the better.

The alternative really is too horrible to contemplate -as you read you can hear the alternative: every click, every 3 seconds, a dead son/daughter/brother/sister.

PRAY for the right thing to happen.