Send your MP a quick message now to support the SCWC

Remember, remember 25 November…

And write to your MP about it today!

On that date, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Street Children will be hosting a special session on the Street Child World Cup.  In true SCWC style, presentation will be interactive, arty and fun – I can’t promise there won’t be chocolate footballs involved.

We want to ensure that the Street Child World Cup sticks in the parliamentary mind – especially as we want to encourage more effective funding of street child work from the Department for International Development.  Ensuring that our government listens to the experts – street children – when it considers this funding is part of this ongoing campaigning work.  The SCWC is all about listening.

So – you can help!

Your MP will have received an invitation to the APPG – but they receive a lot of invitations, and it might take a reminder from you - their constituent – to ensure that it gets into their diary.

It’s very simple.

1) Put your postcode into http://www.writetothem.com/.  It will bring up your MP’s name.

2)  Write to them.

You could say something like:

Dear (MP)

I am a supporter of the first ever Street Child World Cup, which will be held in Durban in March 2010. 

This event will celebrate the potential of street children and ensure that their voices are heard. It will launch a call for street children’s rights to be upheld all over the world.  The Street Child World Cup wants to ensure that street children’s voices are also heard by the Department for International Development and that funding for street child projects is effectively distributed and monitored.

On 25 November, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Street Children will be hosting a special session presenting the Street Child World Cup to UK parliamentarians and representatives from the embassies of each of the participating countries.  The meeting will be held from 3.30pm at Room C, 1 Parliament Street.

As your constituent, I would like to commend this meeting to you.  It will provide a chance to explore how UK parliamentarians and their counterparts overseas can use their positions to ensure that the rights of street children, some of the most vulnerable of their citizens, are recognised and upheld.

This is an issue of real concern to me and I would be pleased and grateful if you could attend the APPG meeting to find out more.

There, it couldn’t be simpler, could it?

Thank you!

Jenny