State Rep. Cyr Says ‘Thanks’

Jul 28th, 2009 11:04 AM UTC
By Matthew Bartlett

ONE member and New Hampshire State Rep. Jeffery St. Cyr has an opinion piece in today’s Concord Monitor. In his piece he highlights the MCC, Global Fund, as well as agricultural development and basic education too.

Excerpts below, full op-ed here

Thank you to our U.S. senators for fighting against famine, starvation and preventable diseases.

As a member of the global anti-poverty advocacy group ONE, and as a New Hampshire state representative, I am proud of the continued leadership by New Hampshire’s senators in the fight against famine, starvation and preventable diseases like malaria – literally death from a mosquito bite that kills more people each year than the population of our state. While many issues divide people across party lines, in the struggle to save lives and safeguard security in the poorest places on earth, it is not a question of political party, but of political will and leadership.

One of the champions of the world’s poorest people, former senator John Sununu, recently went on a trip to Africa, where he saw U.S. programs that he helped create and champion while in Congress. Some of these efforts include prevention of mother-to-child HIV/AIDS transmission, disbursement of anti-malaria bed nets and infrastructure development.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has signed her support for the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria around the world, a program that has won bipartisan support in its responsible, accountable and results-driven approach to combatting some of the biggest plagues that needlessly kill millions of people in desperate, poverty-stricken countries. Shaheen has also co-sponsored the Durbin-Corker Water for the World Act, which would help coordinate efforts to bring clean water to millions of people deprived of this simple necessity to a healthy life.

-Matthew Bartlett

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