Keeping the Pressure On

Jan 22nd, 2007 11:00 AM UTC
By Virginia Simmons

Last week, ONE members sent over 200,000 letters to their members of Congress and helped persuade 42 senators and 92 representatives to join the fight to save nearly one billion dollars in critical global poverty funding for fiscal year 2007.

Because it could be as late as mid-February before our leaders in Congress declare how much of this funding they will save, ONE members are writing letters to the editor today. One of the most read sections of local papers, these letters will keep the pressure on our elected-representatives and help spread information about this incredibly important, yet largely unknown, fight to save nearly a billion dollars for some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote an Op-Ed to the Washington Post last Monday, urging Congress to “remind the world of the good that can be done in the name of the American people.”

Over 350,000 people’s lives depend on this funding. Please join Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and thousands of other ONE members, by writing a letter to the editor to your local paper today.

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