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