Dropping Letters in Ohio
February 12th, 2008 at 4:59 pm | posted by Christopher Cooper, ONE member, Chillicothe, Ohio
On Friday, February 1st, I sent out an email to all the ONE members in Ohio. This message was a call to action urging members to write letters to Senator George Voinovich asking him to co-sponsor the Global Child Survival Act. Wondering if my hope for one hundred responses was perhaps unrealistic, I was blown away when the numbers came flooding in - 1,354 ONE members in the state of Ohio answered the call!
Today I was honored to represent the Buckeye State in the first letter drop for ONE in Ohio. I, along with ONE Field Organizer Katie Andrews, met briefly with Senator Voinovich’s State Communications Liaison Khisha Fallon to discuss the importance of child and maternal health.
As a ONE member, I’ve come to know that every year 10 million children die before their fifth birthday – that’s one every three seconds – nearly all of them from preventable or treatable diseases, like diarrhea, pneumonia and measles. Worldwide, more than 500,000 mothers die each year from complications during child birth. With this action today and actions just like this from ONE members across the nation, the prognosis for mothers and young children in the developing world can be a much more hopeful one.
Thank you ONE members in Ohio for helping me take a stand for children and mothers around the world.
-Chris Cooper, ONE Member (Chillicothe, OH)
February 12th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Way to go Chris Cooper! GO ONE!
February 12th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Hello Anyone,
I’m a disabled Ohio resident just wondering if or how I can become better informed of your work besides this site. I have delved into the archives and I’m reading but I’m looking for more up to date information for more opportunity to get involved. I don’t know exactly what I can do or what you need done but i obviously have internet access and can write emails or what ever else might be needed. I am starving myself and I know that no one cares but i’m an adult and children don’t understand this. They should never have to understand this feeling of deprevity. Just let me know how and if I can help spread the word of your works. Thanks in advance for listening.
Richard Price
bipkie@aol.com
February 12th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Thats awesome
February 12th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Awesome! Continue in your efforts to help those who are need. All that is necessary to start a movement is if ONE decides to make a loud enough nose. Continue makin’ some noise!
May 21st, 2008 at 1:47 am
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.