We have arrived in Chieti, organised forms of citizen participation in the G8 including NGOs and other groups are all staying 90Km from the G8 venue in an army training camp village. we are sharing dorm rooms and each day will be travelling 2 hours morning and evening from our accomodation to the G8 venue in L’Aquilla.

After a 4 hours drive to Chieti from Rome, in a car packed with campaign materials, we arrive and begin assembling our materials, preparing brieifng packs to help birng our message to around 2000 journalists attending the G8 as well as delegations. Our poverty hearings report will bring the voices of those living in poverty who have given testimonies as part of GCAP’s global hearings, while our press statements will react around the clock to developments as they happen.

The great part of GCAP is the way it still values traditional activism, in this photo as you see, two of GCAP’s co-Chairs - Kumi Naidoo and Sylvia Borren who will be key GCAP spokespeople at the G8 are also helping organise materials, servant leadership in GCAP is a powerful way of working.