Civil society within South Africa and around the globe are mobilising to prevent the World Bank granting a new $3.75 billion loan to energy company Eskom in South Africa to finance their investment in the Medupi coal-fired power plant. Jubilee Scotland is supporting this campaign as this debt represents yet another example of bad lending by an International Financial Institution, imposing a significant debt burden on a South Africa while not ensuring that the benefits reach ordinary people.

Jubilee Scotland welcomes the news that on the 26^th of February the second reading of The Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill was passed by Parliament and has now been referred to the committee stage.Congratulations to all our supporters who helped by putting pressure on MPs, to all those MPs who signed the bill, and to Jubilee Debt Campaign for leading the charge against the debt scavengers.<

9.2.10 After hard worldwide campaigning the G7 group have committed to the full cancellation of Haiti's multilateral international debt. The news is especially welcome after the mixed messages coming from the International Monetary Fund in the past two weeks. 

Debt campaigners spoke out against the IMF providing assistance to earthquake-stricken Haiti in the form of loans rather than grants, and the fact that instead of cancelling Haiti's existing debt they planned to extended it by $102 million. 

Jubilee Scotland is extremely grateful for the support of volunteers past and present, who have taken a full part in the development of the organisation. In return we are committed to providing solid and meaningful internships that will stretch and develop volunteers by giving them responsibility for specific areas of the organisation's work.

Jubilee Scotland is currently seeking a Media Intern to raise the profile of the movement in Scottish national and regional media. Please email the office at mail@jubileescotland.org.uk for an application pack. The application deadline is 24/03/10.