The Very Movement He Was Talking About

Feb 28th, 2007 2:00 PM UTC
By Elaine Van Cleave, Head of ONE Birmingham group, Birmingham, AL

This weekend I attended and spoke at the 2nd Annual Hunger Summit at Auburn University in Alabama. College and university students from across the U.S.A., from Georgetown University to the University of Idaho, attended the three day conference.

James Morris, executive director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest international food aid organization, spoke during the event. He told us that each year the WFP distributes food to about 100 million of the world’s poorest people; however, with 852 million hungry people on this planet, even the world’s largest food agency falls short.

Mr. Morris spoke passionately about the need for hunger and poverty to become a part of the national political agenda and told us that we need a movement to end hunger and poverty in this world.

The next day, I gave a presentation on the ONE Campaign.

In my talk, I identified ONE as the very movement Mr. Morris was talking about. I showed the ONE Vote Spot video produced by ONE for the 2006 midterm elections and told the students that ONE is growing everyday from its current size of 2.4 million members. Afterwards, I received a lot of positive responses and dozens of new members signed up for ONE.

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