This morning I joined Pembroke Pines Charter High School students Jorge Jurado, Andre Riley, Ruben Ferrer, Juan Noguera and their teacher Ms. Danielle DePas at the Miramar City Hall for a meeting with Mayor Lori Moseley.

Mayor Moseley listened enthusiastically as the students spoke about their efforts through the Pines Charter High School ONE Club to increase awareness in the community and with our local political leaders about extreme poverty and global disease, especially in Africa and developing countries.

We arranged the meeting with the intent to ask Mayor Moseley to declare Miramar a ONE city and to let her know about our efforts to get every Mayor in Broward County, Florida on board so we can put ONE Broward County on the map. Mayor Moseley not only agreed to issue us a proclamation declaring Miramar a ONE city, but told us she would go even further and present our request to the Broward League of Cities to help introduce this idea to other Broward County mayors.

We cannot thank her enough for her support! With Mayor Moseley’s help we are continuing to build the political will at all levels of government and across all partisan lines to ensure that fighting poverty and saving lives remains a priority for the U.S.

-Sara Paterni, FL Field Organizer