On September 7, ONE Campaign Miami made its second visit of the year to Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s office.

Daniel Pedreira, her Congressional Aide, received us graciously and was genuinely interested in hearing about ONE. After introductions, Adam explained ONE and our fight against extreme poverty and treatable disease. Adam, Alix, Hannibal and Michael each described the legislation we are supporting, including the GROWTH Act, Global Child Survival, the Education for All Act, and the Jubilee Act, and we asked for the Congresswoman’s help in getting this crucial legislation to the floor for votes.

Gail, from our local partner organization RESULTS came along and provided terrific reinforcement on the Global Child Survival Act. She also brought news that big increase in TB funding had passed Congress the night before.

We discussed the Millennium Development Goals and arranged to email the 2007 UN and DATA Reports on the status of extreme poverty in the world to the congresswoman’s aid Daniel Pedreira. Coincidentally, there was a great article that day about Save the Children, Bill Frist and ONE in the New York Times that I sent along too.

After our last visit, Rep. Ros-Lehtinen agreed to sponsor the GROWTH Act. We are hopeful for good results from this meeting as well.

-Alix Gordon – ONEmiami