6:00am Saturday 20th March 2010
By Matt Watts
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.”
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