The BIG Hand-Over

Micah 2010 is an opportunity to encourage our leaders to remember their promise to bring half a billion people out of extreme poverty in our generation.

Politicians need to hear that we care and that we will hold them to account. They cannot push aside the Millennium Development Goals agreed in 2000 as "too hard" and we cannot let the promise fail because of apathy or corruption.

The Big Hand-over of 10 million handprints will remind our leaders that we have only five years remaining to meet our promise.

A church could invite their local politician to an event at the church and present the handprints or deliver their handprints to their politician. They may have a simple message, "Remember the poor" or they may have been trained in the messages of the national campaign. The more specific the message is, the more impact it will have.

A church which is not able to make contact with their local politician will send its handprints to the Micah Challenge office so they can arrange a handover with an appropriate Minister to talk about the 2 or 3 asks of the national campaign.

These meetings will take place in the months following October 10, 2010.

Together, all these meetings will contribute to our target of at least 1,000 meetings with political leaders in 20 countries.