World Malaria Day at Texas State Capitol
On World Malaria Day last Saturday, ONE Austin jumped on board with the movement across the country. Imagine NO Malaria, an organization affiliated with the United Methodist Church threw a huge city-wide launch party with Jars of Clay as its host. Many other bands, organizations and churches showcased their efforts and unity in fighting for the cause, as well. ONE Austin became a part of this event at the Texas State Capitol and was able to spread the word of ONE to hundreds of people.
Maza, Dallas, Debbie and I were the main four volunteers at this particular event. With our enthusiasm and excitement, we soon had crowds of people surrounding our table to find out what ONE was all about. This excitement carried over to the new members who in turn signed up other new members! In all, we collected nearly 300 signatures. Our efforts were also showcased on Channel 8 News.
The event was such a huge success and everyone, both old and new members, are extremely excited to get moving and begin reaching great heights across the city of Austin, Texas. We have a great core group so far, and with the many members we recruited there is much to look forward to with ONE Austin spreading the word about extreme poverty solutions.
-Paulina Sosa, ONE Member Austin
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April 27, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Thanks Paulina for an excellent synopsis of the “Imagine No Malaria” Day event. There was an excitement in the air at the event which was contagious to everybody there. And it was SO GREAT for me to be surrounded by three other ONE members who are as passionate as I am to work together AS ONE in our community to promote the goals of of a world free of HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty!
The four of us will continue to stay in touch over the Summer (there is another event that I will participate in next month as a ONE member that I will invite all my fellow ONE members to) and build up for our involvement in the Austin AIDS Walk in October. This is the beginning of something MAGNIFICENT in central Texas.~
Here is the video footage of the news report that Paulina spoke about. For ALL of us in ONE, check out how the reporter made sure to highlight our info in her report. (Thanks Jennifer) :
http://news8austin.com/content/local_news/270559/through-fundraising–local-church-takes-on-eliminating-malaria
I only wished that I was in the pic with my friends above. When that pic was taken, I was actually on the other side of the table signing folks up for ONE & missed getting into it. No problem – Maza, Paulina & Dallas took ONE AWESOME PIC.
ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE – debbie
April 27, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Bravo Austin members! – Keep it going…