Five years ago today (3 February) Nelson Mandela challenged world leaders to make poverty history before a crowd in Trafalgar Square, London.
"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great," he told those assembled. "You can be that great generation."
His words were to echo around the world. In the UK and across the world they mobilised the Make Poverty History campaign – one of the biggest grass roots movements ever seen.
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