Poverty truth commision

I met Paul the other night at a unlock event in Glasgow.Paul works for faith in the community and is planning a Poverty truth commission event to be held in Glasgow on the 21 March 2009 venue tba.

The commission is inspired by the Truth and reconciliation commission of south Africa and the truth commission of Union theological seminary in New York.
the commission will listen to testimony from those most effected by poverty ,that will be followed by conversations with those who testify and others from poor areas to talk about there struggles and ways of overcoming them.The commission will having conferred together speak about what they have learned and what action they will take in response.They will also challenge everyone to dedicate there time to overcoming poverty.
There will then be a follow up meeting on the 21 October 2009 to look at what has happened.

I hope to be able post Paul's contact email here soon.for now there is a postal address.

Faith In the community
759a Argyle st ,
Glasgow,
G3 8DS
http://www.faithincommunityscotland.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=462&Itemid=39