Comments on: Celebrity EDUN ONE Shirt Auction is Live!

By: msclone

msclone — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:14:03 +0000

i want to buy from your goods

By: Patria

Patria — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:59:28 +0000

It’s great to donate yet, I would like to see more homes, hospitals, schools, built closer together so people from other countries who are extremely poor do not have to travel as far. I would like to see the GOOD work and done intelligently and logically. You always see people walking for miles. Can’t someone see that building homes, schools, and hospitals, stores, etc closer together would makwe sense. It’s just a thought. I understand not everyone would benefit but if a good portion does, ” Why not”. Thanks

By: Lia

Lia — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:19:38 +0000

It’s great to see celebrities step up and do something good for this world.That gives their fans something to think about.
ONE is an excellent organization.Lets the people with less know that we care very much.

By: Kaoru Miyake

Kaoru Miyake — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:31:08 +0000

I have a reservation for a thing like an expensive champagne dinner. It does not make sense of having such luxury and supporting poor people.

However, this one states that ‘All of the proceeds from this auction go to ONE’. And so, I do not see anything wrong. It hardly cost any more than original T shirt to get celebrity customize them. Those people, who are not interested, can just donate the money. Fans of celebrities do crazy thing. I am a G4 fan in UK and they sold their signed giant poster for 250 Pounds (almost 500 Dollars) to raise fund for a charity. Not a bad idea to involve celebrities, who can influence and encourage their fans to support the charities.

By: Kaoru Miyake

Kaoru Miyake — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:29:50 +0000

I have a reservation for a thing like an expensive champagne dinner. It does not make sense of having such luxury and supporting poor people.

However, this one states that ‘All of the proceeds from this auction go to ONE’. And so, I do not see anything wrong. It hardly cost any more than original T shirts to get celebrity customize them. Thjose people, who are not interested, can just donate the money. Fans of celebrities do crazy thing. I am a G4 fan in UK and they sold their signed giant poster for 250 Pounds (almost 500 Dollars) to raise fund for a charity. Not a bad idea to involve celebrities, who can influence and encourage their fans to support the charities.

By: Debbie K

Debbie K — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:53:47 +0000

To Liz and Lucia -

Thank you for your support of EDUN and her sister organizations – it is VERY MUCH appreciated!

Our movement to make extreme poverty history is not perfect – Bono and the others who are our founders and our spokespeople would be the first ones to attest to that.

But it can not be disputed that in the last ten years, the international movement to make extreme poverty history has been VERY SUCCESSFUL in alleviating the suffering of MILLIONS of the world’s poorest people and in changing the perception in the richer countries that extreme poverty CAN BE STOPPEDwhile mobilizing public opinion in these countries to support our movement.

Our movement is strong enough to welcome a different perspective on our issues as long as those who question us can offer something better to replace what we have to offer the world’s poorest people.

Take very good care of each other, my friends. Blessings – not just for those who kneel.~

ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE – debbie

PS: Please check out this website – http://www.whiteband.org

By: Lucia Paiva

Lucia Paiva — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:12:54 +0000

Thanks Debbie for your comments…

And this goes to the EDUN protesters:
If you don’t want to buy the bloody shirt – don’t nobody needs to know about it, but don’t try to cloud anybody else’s eyes with your own doubts…

Let’s feed the world together as ONE,
Lucia

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:09:07 +0000

Thanks to everyONE who reads and understands that the remainder of the profits go to ONE!
Thanks to everyONE who continues to work hard to make poverty history!

By: Debbie K

Debbie K — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:36:22 +0000

THANK YOU VIRGINIA, BRIDGET, KIMBERLY & MICHAEL (amongst others) for weighing in during this discussion FOR EDUN – it is very much appreciated.

Michael – I feel your pain.

I simply don’t know what to say about this discussion except I have been wondering for a long while about some of the postings in the ONE Blog.

It seems like there are a lot of people who post in certain topic areas who appear to be coming into the discussion more to muddy the water than to provide clear thought.

I belong to a local organization in my area (Austin TX) which has a humanitarian relationship with Leostho. We raise money to fund certain programs for HIV+ women and their families.

Last year, the Ambassador from Lesotho came to our city to speak with business and other leaders in our community in an attempt to get more financial investment in her country.

I spoke with her for a long while and she noticed my white band that I was wearing. She asked me if I belonged to the ONE Campaign. I told her that I have been a faithful volunteer for ONE since its inception, going all the wayback to the start of DATA in 2002.

When I mentioned DATA, she smiled and told me just how helpful that they had been in trying to get more money put into programs to help her country.

I mentioned about EDUN’s work in Lesotho and the Ambassador smiled again and told me just how important ventures like EDUN are in bringing investment to her country and uplifting the standard of living of her people.

At the end of our discussion, I gave her a whiteband and we took several pictures together – proudly wearing our whitebands!

So when you SUPPORT EDUN or (RED) – you are supporting the People of Lesotho.

It is just that simple.

Take very good care,everyONE. Blessings – not just for those who kneel.

AS ONE, debbie

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