Revolve in PA

Nov 13th, 2006 2:00 PM UTC
By Kim Smith, ONE Regional Field Organizer

Last weekend I had the opportunity to travel to Philadelphia, PA, to promote ONE at the Revolve Tour. Revolve is a national tour put on by Women of Faith each year and is a weekend of great music and inspiring stories for young women in grades 6-12.

ONE had a booth at the Philadelphia show and with the help of our great volunteers, Dave, Lindsay, Casey, Phil, Taryn, and Schaunel, we were able to get over 1200 young women and their mothers to join the Campaign! It was exhilarating to be part of a group that was able to get so many people signed up for ONE in such a short time.

The coolest part for me was the look on so many of the girls’ faces as we explained how they, as American teenagers, can help fight extreme poverty and AIDS around the world. The statistics can be staggering – every three seconds someone in the developing world dies of poverty and over a billion people around the world live on less than a dollar a day – and it can be easy for us to tune the information out. However there is hope and explaining to the girls how ONE person really can make a difference in the fight against the global AIDS pandemic and extreme poverty was exciting.

Our youth are the future, not only for America, but for the developing world as well, and they get it – they know they can end extreme poverty in their generation and are willing to use their voices and their time to make sure it happens.

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