Twenty years ago today Bob Geldof asked the world to feed Africa today we’re trying to provide them with a fair and equal standing in the world.

Maybe it’s only with a rock show that spans the world, with figures that we can’t comprehend (the 5,000 people involved worldwide to make it happen, the London stage as high as five double decker buses, the miles of cables, the hundreds of satellite feeds) do we stand a hope of bringing the enormity of the issue home to people.

Simply put, during the time of the concerts 30,000 people died in Africa.

Maybe you watched the tennis at Wimbledon. That’s all the people watching on Centre Court. Dead. In one day. The same tomorrow. Then the next.

For me the most moving thing was seeing Birhan Woldu who twenty years ago was given ten minutes to live while her family dug her grave. Now she is a health, happy and beautiful 24 year old woman who is now at agricultural college and hopes to combine this with a degree in nursing to prepare her for work among poor farming families in the largely impoverished northern provinces of her home country.

Everyone deserves that chance at life.

So, stand up, don’t give up, get involved.

• Read the BBC Weblog of the event here

• Read the letter from Bob Geldof here

• Sign the Live 8 List here

• Mail your MP here

It’s really simple. We can fix it and I, for one, don’t want those deaths to happen any more.