The founding editor of New Internationalist magazine talks about his subsequent work campaigning with UNICEF – and his latest novel.
How did the idea of New Internationalist (NI) magazine first arise?
At the time, we were campaigning door-to-door in British universities to ask students to give one per cent of their income to organizations such as Oxfam. Thousands of doorstep conversations showed us that nearly all students, including ourselves, knew next to nothing about world poverty.
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