With over 23 million people standing up to be counted, Stand Up Against Poverty, Stand Up for the Millennium Development Goals, became “the largest mobilisation of people in the history of Guinness World Record Breaking”!
In almost 12,000 events spread across nearly 100 countries, people stood up together to tell their leaders in no uncertain terms: “We have to end poverty, illiteracy and disease. We have less than 10 years to go to achieve the Millennium Development Goals; we will not accept any more excuses”.
In Poland, on occasion of the International day for the eradication of poverty, ATD Fourth World oganised two Stand Up events, one in Kielce on the 15th October 2006 and one in Warswaw on the 17th.