Save The Children global meeting on poverty held in Streatham (From Your Local Guardian)

Save The Children global meeting on poverty held in Streatham

6:00am Saturday 20th March 2010 in

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Young people from across the globe met in Streatham to say to politicians more needed to be done to pull young people out of poverty.

Save the Children held a meeting for its global panel members - who had flown in from as far afield as Bangladesh, Columbia, Nigeria, and South Africa - at Dunraven School.

The Streatham parliamentary candidates were invited to hear representations from the young people, aged between 12 and 19.

Neider Bisbiscus Marcillo, from Columbia, said: "I would ask politicians to try and save the lives that are lost every day because lives depend on the policies they make."

A Save the Children spokesperson said: “The high number of children that live in poverty in Streatham has made it a key target for Save the Children’s pre-election campaign, with 55 per cent of children living in low income families.”