Over one hundred students rallied at Harvard University on October 17 to join over 100 million people worldwide in a movement called “Stand Up & Take Action Against Poverty.” The movement is a global initiative to fight poverty through the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals — the international development goals that the United Nations hopes to achieve by 2015. The eight goals include promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDs, and ensuring environmental sustainability. The rally was hosted by the Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa at Harvard, an on-campus student group that founded the Millennium Campus Network (MCN). The MCN is comprised of 11 student groups at 7 universities across the country working to end world poverty.

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