After Alicia Keys performed “Superwoman” MTV’s Shay walked around the audience to talk to folks.
One of the two students he stops talked about the ONE Campus Challenge. For the challenge, she explains, students receive points for raising awareness for ONE and the fight against global poverty. She gives examples of ways to gain points in the challenge, like writing Letters to the Editor of your local paper or having your dean declare your campus a “Campus of ONE.”
Bil Clinton: ‘We want to make a movement feel to this. Private people doing public work. You can work on a political campaign. You can get involved in a cause…
We live in a short attention span society. If you want people to do something, they have to know how to do it immediately…
Young people from the ages from 16-30 are more involved in the kind of work we’re talking about here tonight than at any time in history. We’re riding the tide…
I’ve got a lot of confidence in the younger generation. What the technology and the Internet and avenues like MTV give us is more and more ways to make an impact…
Find something you can give. Maybe it’s not food or money. Maybe it’s clothes you can donate. Find out what you can do.’
Bill’s goal: to get 100% of the young people to see this as a part of citizenship.
Nick from New Jersey University asks: “As college students, we’re incredibly busy. How do we find time to support causes like ONE.org.
Chris says: “I bet if you had AIDS, you’d find time to work on it.”
Bill Clinton, on a more serious note, says (paraphrased) “You start from where you are. Volunteer an hour, two hours a month. Just start. Don’t get hung up that what you can give isn’t enough. You have to start from where you are.”
Sway asks Chris Rock, what’s the reward for kids to do this work?
Chris jokes, “When you talk to kid, if you want them to go blank – just say “in the long run…”
Then Chris says, any time you help someone, you get a reward.
He mentions that he and his wife help out a village in Africa. And that his kids send their clothes to kids in Africa. Later, they get photos back of the kids in Africa wearing his kids’ clothes.
“And it makes you feel so good…A lot of people call you up for help, but they don’t really need help. When you help someone out who really needs it, you feel really good.” (fully paraphrased.)
ONE is campaigning to ensure that the Congressional budget does not cut foreign assistance programs like Feed the Future that help people break the cycle of poverty and hunger.
The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years. More than 11 million people, mostly nomadic pastoralists and farmers in south-central Somalia, north-eastern Kenya, and south-eastern Ethiopia, are severely lacking access to food.
2011 marks 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were documented. Take a closer look at the specific, achievable goals we must hit by 2015 to make this year the beginning of the end of AIDS.
As aid agencies warn more than 9 million people could be affected by a food crisis in East Africa, world leaders are failing to keep their 2009 promises to tackle the causes of chronic hunger and support farmers in the world's poorest countries.
After Alicia Keys performed “Superwoman” MTV’s Shay walked around the audience to talk to folks.
One of the two students he stops talked about the ONE Campus Challenge. For the challenge, she explains, students receive points for raising awareness for ONE and the fight against global poverty. She gives examples of ways to gain points in the challenge, like writing Letters to the Editor of your local paper or having your dean declare your campus a “Campus of ONE.”
Bil Clinton: ‘We want to make a movement feel to this. Private people doing public work. You can work on a political campaign. You can get involved in a cause…
