Economic Justice 2006

Helping individuals and communities break the cycle of poverty

Sponsored by The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

Winner

Shane Lunga Zimbabwe

Futures

Shane is Zimbabwean and is a scientist working in the civil service. He co-founded Zimbabwe Futures, an NGO focused on lobbying the British Government to provide the support package necessary to rebuild Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe currently faces high levels of poverty, hunger and economic collapse. Zimbabwe Future's key focus is to lobby ministers on policies that will encourage skilled Zimbabweans to return to home, help tackle the country's AIDS epidemic and revive the agricultural industry.

Finalists

Leila Deen

World Development Movement (WDM)

Leila has a background in student political activism and currently works part time at WDM as well as being an active member of WDM's Brighton branch. Her campaign focuses on the attempts by Western governments to force developing countries to privatise their water supplies, global debt cancellation and trade justice. The trade justice element of her campaign aims to secure open access to European and American markets for developing countries' products and an end to the export subsidies used by the US and the EU that help make their goods cheaper than those produced by poor countries.

Christine Kahmann

Action Against Hunger UK (AAHUK)

Christine gained her masters in International Development at the London School of Economics and is currently the Communications Officer at Action Against Hunger UK. She was recently responsible for establishing a new communication operation for the department. AAHUK raises awareness in the UK of the causes of hunger and seeks to alert the international community when food rights are violated. Her communication department has sought to raise awareness of the food security situations in a wide range of countries, such as Niger, Sir Lanka, Mongolia and the Congo.