Recently ONE members Andrea Locklear, Kay Furlani, Duke Wooters, Cordelia Smith, Beth Rankin and I (Samantha Butisingh) met with Senator Launtenberg’s staff member Talia Young to discuss the work of ONE to make poverty history. We expressed gratitude and thanks to the Senator for signing a funding letter for the Global Fund and asked for his continued leadership on the Global Fund by getting the highest possible amount for the Fund in the State, Foreign Operations Appropriations Conference.We also thanked Sen. Lautenberg for his support for PEPFAR reauthorization last year and asked for his continued support through appropriations.

We hope to keep this line of communication that was established between ONE members and the Lautenberg staff open. It is from constant support from Senators, like Sen. Lautenberg, that we are able to achieve success in our effort to put an end to poverty, hunger, and global diseases.

We thank Ms. Talia Young for meeting with us and the rest of the Lautenberg staff. We are especially thankful for having Senator Lautenberg as a voice for the world’s poorest in the Senate.

-Samantha Butisingh, ONE Campus Outreach Ambassador for Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania