On Monday June 22, 2009, a team of ONE volunteers met with Congressman Aaron Schock (R-18) to educate him about ONE’s legislative initiatives and highlighted the 2515 ONE members currently in District 18. The team discussed President Obama’s FY2010 International Affairs Budget, and highlighted HR 2139Foreign Assistance Reform Act of 2009 requesting consideration of his co-sponsorship. Congressman Schock shared with volunteers about his visits to other countries while he was growing up and his firsthand witness of extreme poverty. He needed little convincing about the significance of ONE’s advocacy efforts in helping the world’s poorest people improve their own lives and communities, and readily understands the importance of maintaining results-oriented worldwide humanitarian efforts as essential to the building of a more stable world.

-Matthew Bartlett