Comments on: “New Day, New Way” launches aid reform on the Hill http://www.one.org/blog/2008/06/10/new-day-new-way-launches-aid-reform-on-the-hill/ The Campaign to Make Poverty History Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:55:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: keystonemail http://www.one.org/blog/2008/06/10/new-day-new-way-launches-aid-reform-on-the-hill/#comment-546703 keystonemail Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:16:47 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2008/06/10/new-day-new-way-launches-aid-reform-on-the-hill/#comment-546703 I'd surprise chunk wasn't at raspberries, I’d surprise chunk wasn’t at raspberries,

]]> By: Debbie K http://www.one.org/blog/2008/06/10/new-day-new-way-launches-aid-reform-on-the-hill/#comment-546598 Debbie K Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:00:03 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2008/06/10/new-day-new-way-launches-aid-reform-on-the-hill/#comment-546598 Hey Porter, thanks so much for the first update from this forum. We value your ideas & input in the ONE Blog as Oxfam is one of the STELLAR partner organizations of ONE and has been essential in the movement to end extreme poverty for decades. I completely agree with your statement: "We need to change our approaches on the ground. Specifically, U.S. foreign aid must do more to put poor countries and poor people in control of their own future. True partnership means ceding a measure of control, something that is hard for Washington to do. It is the difference between charity and investment." To this end, I hope this forum is a success in redirecting U.S. foreign assistance into more NGO activities in the poorest parts of the world. It simply makes sense. But, I must stress ONE idea: without the re-authorization of PEPFAR, millions of people who would otherwise be around to partake in the fruits of Oxfam's hark work on their behalf will simply be gone - no longer living because they are not able to get the medications that they need to keep them alive & productive. So while all of you discuss alternatives to the present ways in which U.S. foreign assistance is currently distributed, I highly urge you and the others there from ONE to STAND UP & VOICE YOUR SUPPORT OF PEPFAR and attempt to garner the support of the Senators there to this action. It simply makes not a lot of sense to discuss alternatives to current U.S. foreign assistance distribution if millions of people will not be alive to benefit from it. ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE - debbie :) www.mpwn-uganda.org Hey Porter, thanks so much for the first update from this forum. We value your ideas & input in the ONE Blog as Oxfam is one of the STELLAR partner organizations of ONE and has been essential in the movement to end extreme poverty for decades.

I completely agree with your statement:

“We need to change our approaches on the ground. Specifically, U.S. foreign aid must do more to put poor countries and poor people in control of their own future. True partnership means ceding a measure of control, something that is hard for Washington to do. It is the difference between charity and investment.”

To this end, I hope this forum is a success in redirecting U.S. foreign assistance into more NGO activities in the poorest parts of the world. It simply makes sense.

But, I must stress ONE idea: without the re-authorization of PEPFAR, millions of people who would otherwise be around to partake in the fruits of Oxfam’s hark work on their behalf will simply be gone - no longer living because they are not able to get the medications that they need to keep them alive & productive.

So while all of you discuss alternatives to the present ways in which U.S. foreign assistance is currently distributed, I highly urge you and the others there from ONE to STAND UP & VOICE YOUR SUPPORT OF PEPFAR and attempt to garner the support of the Senators there to this action.

It simply makes not a lot of sense to discuss alternatives to current U.S. foreign assistance
distribution if millions of people will not be alive to benefit from it.

ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE - debbie :)
www.mpwn-uganda.org

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