ONE member Nick Means was able to snap this quick shot of ONE member Jennifer Bryce banding Michelle Obama this week in Chillicothe, OH.

With the Ohio presidential primary on Tuesday, we’ll see being seeing more and more ONE members across the state showing the candidates that Ohio cares about global poverty and disease.

-Katie Andrews

Friday night, I had the pleasure of speaking at Donkey Coffee’s ONE concert featuring local talent in Athens, OH: Laura Nadeau, Zach Oden, Jake Householder and Victor Rasgaitis.

This hip fair trade coffee house has been a supporter of ONE for a long time now. I realized how much owner Chris Pyle is committed to educating his community to take action when I saw one of the coffee house’s rooms dedicated to social justice. In it you’ll find a ONE display and literature/posters from other great organizations that Donkey supports like Habitat for Humanity and World Vision.

But, back to the fun part—the music!! Check out this excerpt from Victor’s set and you’ll see how the musicians were able to incorporate the ONE message into the night.

This is just a reminder that whether you are a business owner, musician, teacher, student or none of the above…think outside of the box and you, too, can help make a positive impact on the world.

Here are some of the pictures: Donkey Coffee, Laura Nadeau performing, girl looking at ONE Vote brochure, and coffee mugs, Salinger and ONE.

-Katie Andrews, Regional Field Organizer (KS, OH, MI, MO, WV)

Finally! The campaign comes to the Buckeye State!!

Despite it being Valentine’s Day, ONE members were out on the campaign trail last night to see Senator Clinton and make sure the Columbus community is thinking about global poverty and disease when they cast their ballet during the Ohio Primary on March 4th.

It’s only the beginning in Ohio so keep any eye out for us during the next couple of weeks. Go ONE, Go OHIO! OH-IO!!

-Katie Andrews, ONE Regional Organizer

On Friday, February 1st, I sent out an email to all the ONE members in Ohio. This message was a call to action urging members to write letters to Senator George Voinovich asking him to co-sponsor the Global Child Survival Act. Wondering if my hope for one hundred responses was perhaps unrealistic, I was blown away when the numbers came flooding in – 1,354 ONE members in the state of Ohio answered the call!

Today I was honored to represent the Buckeye State in the first letter drop for ONE in Ohio. I, along with ONE Field Organizer Katie Andrews, met briefly with Senator Voinovich’s State Communications Liaison Khisha Fallon to discuss the importance of child and maternal health.

As a ONE member, I’ve come to know that every year 10 million children die before their fifth birthday – that’s one every three seconds – nearly all of them from preventable or treatable diseases, like diarrhea, pneumonia and measles. Worldwide, more than 500,000 mothers die each year from complications during child birth. With this action today and actions just like this from ONE members across the nation, the prognosis for mothers and young children in the developing world can be a much more hopeful one.

Thank you ONE members in Ohio for helping me take a stand for children and mothers around the world.

-Chris Cooper, ONE Member (Chillicothe, OH)