Manila, Philippines - 27 Filipino
artists worked together to promote the United
Nations (UN) in the Philippines eight-point
Millennium Development Goals (MDG) through music.
The album is entitled 'Tayo
Tayo Rin Sa 2015 - Sing the Songs. Find your
Voice. Change the World. It's your Choice'.
The strategy of using pop culture
to get its message across is part of the agency’s
continued efforts to bring awareness about the
MDGs to the grassroots level. The Anthem's message
is simple, namely that "we should all work
together to achieve the MDGs."
The Millennium Campaign informs,
inspires and encourages people’s involvement
and action for the realization of the Millennium
Development Goals. An initiative of the United
Nations, the Campaign supports citizens’
efforts to hold their government to account
for the Millennium promise.
The Campaign was launched in
October 2002, two years after 189 government
leaders from the highest political level of
almost every country in the world agreed at
the September 2000 Millennium Summit to a set
of eight time-bound targets that, when achieved,
will end extreme poverty across the planet.
Working at both the national
and international levels, the ambition of the
Campaign is to inspire a global movement to
achieve the Goals and eradicate extreme poverty
by 2015. Our premise is simple: we are the first
generation that can put an end to extreme poverty
around the world, and we refuse to miss this
opportunity!
Tayo-Tayo Rin Sa 2015 contains
nine tracks: "For A Better Life,"
performed by Gary Valenciano; "Bata Pa
Ako," by Julia Abueva; "Babae,"
by Lea Salonga; "Kung Sana’y,"
by Sharon Cuneta; "Sa Sinapupunan Ko,"
by Ai Ai Delas Alas and the Apo Hiking Society;
"Kalinga," by Kitchie Nadal; "Tuloy
Tuloy," by Spy, featuring Papa Dom; and
"Tayo Tayo Rin," the MDG anthem, which
also comes in an English version.
To help disseminate the songs'
messages, UN is distributing to the public for
free 5,000 compact discs of the album. Since
the album is not for sale, UN officials also
said these original copies can be freely recopied
for distribution and for public airing.
