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Oct 7th, 2008 - 07:03:56 |
Owulezi
Amidst the great economic turmoil last week, the UN Summit in New York produced some notable outcomes for the world’s poorest people. We had ONE staff on the ground delivering our petition—with over 50,000 signatures—to the UN’s Assistant Secretary General and working with ONE co-founder Bono and fellow activist Bob Geldof to keep pressure on decision-makers throughout the week.
More important than the work we did though, are the results. Private sector donors and several countries including the Netherlands, Turkey, and China made commitments to agriculture. While this news marks good progress, it isn’t really comparable with the USD 1 billion we were asking for and we’ll have to keep working to get the funding necessary to end the global hunger crisis.
You can watch our inspiring new video, “Celebrate and Accelerate” that we used to motivate leaders and read more about the results—including a bold new initiative to eliminate deaths from malaria by 2015 and the World Bank committing USD 3 billion over two years for basic education – by clicking here:
http://www.one.org/r?r=65&id=611-2987369-RLlTtwx&t=2
Of course, more remains to be done. Donors need to lay out timelines for delivering the aid, and we need to make sure that in delivering their promises they don’t cut aid elsewhere. But in the meantime, I hope you’ll join me in a little muted celebration about these small steps forward in a difficult time.
Thank you,
Jul 1st, 2008 - 14:55:36 |
Owulezi
Hello and thanks for your interest in volunteering for ONE:
The upcoming election creates an amazing opportunity for ONE members
to take action with ONE Vote 08, our campaign to make global disease
and extreme poverty priorities in the 2008 presidential election.
Florida is a crucial state in this election and that gives us the
chance to use our voices on behalf of the world's poorest people.
To help get started, we are hosting a conference call for ONE members
interested in getting more involved with the campaign Wednesday, July
2nd at 7:00 PM EST. To RSVP for the call please click here:
http://www.one.org/event/GeneralEvent/468
After you RSVP, we will get you the call-in number and pass code. In
the meantime, feel free to invite your friends and family to join in
as well. We would like as many people as possible to join this call.
During the call ONE CEO David Lane and other ONE Vote 08 staff will
briefly discuss the campaign strategy, ways to get involved in your
community, and answer any questions you may have.
We hope you will join us Wednesday and we look forward to working
with you in the coming months.
Thank you,
Jedidiah Hall
Matt Haber
Florida Field Organizers
Jun 2nd, 2005 - 19:33:30 |
Cam
Discussion on Trade & Poverty
To follow up the IYPF's May 2005 Newsletter feature on fair trade, members of the IYPF network and anyone interested are been invited to join our Poverty Eradication online community and and network with others interested in poverty eradication generally, and the role of trade in poverty eradication in particular.
You can download the May 2005 edition of the newsletter here if you don't already have it (word or pdf available):
http://www.iypf.org/news.htm#latest
Upon joining the group, the 2 articles on trade and poverty that we printed in the newsletter will be sent to you as stimuli for your own thoughts and comments on trade and poverty.
We invite you to discuss the articles, post your own articles, opinions and resources, and connect with other young professionals around the world.
Also, we recommend you go to
http://projects.takingitglobal.org/Pov-Campaign
for more information and that you join up to this TIG project.
We look forward to your input and discussions!
The IYPF team
May 31st, 2005 - 17:48:31 |
Fi McKenzie
Hi everyone!
Just a quick note to say that there'll be lots starting to happen on this at the end of this week so keep an eye out! Looking forward to the progress we can make together!!!
Fiona
Apr 13th, 2005 - 04:14:46 |
Fi McKenzie
Good morning everybody!
First progress report/action update: We have eight people involved, which is truely fabulous but I'm sure there are thousands involved in TIG who would like to be involved but simply don't know that this projext exists. So, let's spread the word! Everyone and anyone you think should know about this, needs to know! Especially TIG members!
Thanks guys :o)
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