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Bryan Turner is the Founder and President of Students to End Extreme Poverty at Carleton University. He is based in Ottawa, Canada.
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Posted by Bryan Turner  |  Sep 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
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Impatient for Action

Last Monday I had the pleasure of attending the Second Annual Millennium Promise Partners’ Meeting. It was brilliant. I have never been in a room with so many people I had only heard about, read articles by and watched lectures from online. Perhaps most wonderfully, everyone seemed impatient for action. The setup was great. It allowed for sharing of ideas and I think it would have been hard not to come away even more inspired and empowered. The level of innovation was phenomenal. World leaders, powerful calls to action from all spheres of society, . . . [more]

Posted by Bryan Turner  |  Sep 15, 2009 | 4 Comments
Millennium Development Goals • Millennium Villages Project • Partners

Carleton University students fund Millennium Promise with tuition fee

Instead of fundraising, last year at Carleton University, Students To End Extreme Poverty campaigned to get a question to referendum whereby students would vote on whether or not they would pay an extra $6 per person annually in tuition fees to help finance a Millennium Village. We got 73% of the vote. The 20,000 students at Carleton now contribute over $120,000 annually . . . [more]

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