ONE at Faith in 3D
Over the weekend, Orlando ONE volunteers participated at the Faith in 3D conference held at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort. The conference celebrated students coming together to learn about world cultures and religions.
From Friday to Monday, we passed out literature on ONE and talked to many students of various faith backgrounds from across the country about how they can get involved nationally and in their local communities to help raise awareness about extreme poverty and preventable disease by speaking out and taking action on these vital issues.
We also spoke about ONE Sabbath, an initiative by ONE to help provide opportunities within the faith community to learn more about global health issues such as AIDS, tuber¬culosis and malaria, as well as help alleviate the suffer-ing caused by extreme poverty, unclean water and lack of educational opportunities.
We encouraged each person we met over the weekend to work with their local congregations to continue to raise awareness through ONE Sabbath or through other avenues about these issues and inspire others from their home cities to take action against poverty.
By the end of the weekend the more than 2000 conference attendees had received ONE literature as well as our signature white wristband! Way to go Orlando!
-Sara Paterni
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January 21, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Are tootsie rolls the official candy of the ONE Campaign? Just wanting to know because if they are then I’ll put some out at my next ONE booth coming up soon. (smile)
Great effort, Sara!
ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE – debbie
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January 21, 2009 at 10:34 pm
This is wonderful. I wish they could organize and educate against abortion.
January 23, 2009 at 1:28 am
Actually Debbie, the Tootsie Rolls are bribery. It doesn’t work as well as ONE dollar bills. I recommend them instead. I remember you mentioning some time ago that you have frequently gone into a little bit of debt to fund your table. If you’ll take out a small loan, change that into one dollar bills and give ONE out to everyONE that signs up for ONE.org, you’ll get a lot more signatures that way. And you’ll have helped your cause. If you do, post up the picture. I’d like to see it.