Poverty-Fighters Networking in Boston
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The Millennium Campus Network held a conference this past weekend to discuss global poverty and health. ONE’s former intern, Sam Vaghar, helped create this new network of Boston area colleges and universities, and their conference hosted over 700 students and included top global health experts like Ira Magaziner, Dr. Paul Farmer, as well as an event with musician John Legend and Dr. Jeff Sachs.
I attended the first day of the event at MIT and immediately noticed a few ONE shirts and many, many ONE bands. After opening statements and a very good speech by Sam, the keynote address was given by former presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards. In his speech, Sen. Edwards spoke about his travels to Uganda and the extreme poverty he witnessed in Africa. He spoke about the need to fight AIDS and malaria to help bring stability to poor nations and citied America’s moral standing in the world.
After his speech, I was able to briefly speak with Sen. Edwards and thanked him for raising the issues of global poverty while on the campaign trail. We even talked about the global poverty speech he gave in New Hampshire.
From the campaign trail to the colleges campuses, people everywhere are organizing and realizing that in today’s world, that we have the resources to fight global disease and end extreme - less than a dollar a day - poverty.
-Matthew Bartlett
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April 23, 2008 at 7:58 am
I am impressed with the of initiative you have started. I am Kenya citizen living in Kibera slum. I founded a youth organisation called Pamoja Youth Foundation while in high school. The word Pamoja means ‘together’. One of its aim to form a network of young people globally and to help empower youth both socially and economically. I would love to partner with and host you in kenya.
May God bless you all.
Raphael
April 28, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Go, Sam!!
April 28, 2008 at 5:12 pm
… and Matthew!! This is great.
April 29, 2008 at 9:02 am
I am very much interested in partnership with people like you. Please contact me to see how we can partner and work together.E-mail raomosh@yahoo.com
February 25, 2009 at 10:55 pm
I am glad that The Millennium Campus Network is a great initiative and I believe that it will go a long way in touching the lives of many people.
My name is Ian Krop and am a Programmes Coordinator of O-YES (Organization of Youth Empowerment and Solidarity) an NGO in Kenya. O-YES is involved in empowering young people in Kenya by training them on essential skills of life e.g. Communication skills, Writing skills, Science of Job, Work of Life, Interpersonal skills e.t.c.
We also have a programme for empowering young people which is Youth Empowerment and Capacity building. Here look for attachments for young people who are at college, university levels so that they get to become interns and learn the necessities of the job market. In this, it will prepare them for the job market. We want our members to become Job creators and not Job seekers.
I would love to partner with The Millennium Campus Network in addressing issues of Poverty in Kenya. For more information, my e-mail address is krop@oyeskenya.org
Thanks
Ian Krop