What was 'Get on board'?
As part of Make Poverty History and the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) ActionAid embarked on an epic journey across Africa in a small bus - a matatu, the most common form of public transport in Africa. The journey started in Johannesburg on 31 March 2005 and ended in Scotland on 8 July at the G8 summit.

Along the way 'Get on Board' visited people in the poorest parts of South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Thousands of messages were collected to give to the world leaders at the G8 summit as ActionAid believes that African voices must be heard in order to achieve real change for the millions living in poverty.

On the 8 July 2005 the bus drove all the way up to the G8 summit in Scotland where Brendan O'Donnell and Ivy Maina, who have been on the bus for the whole journey, gave the G8 their messages.