Nick from New Jersey University asks: “As college students, we’re incredibly busy. How do we find time to support causes like ONE.org.
Chris says: “I bet if you had AIDS, you’d find time to work on it.”
Bill Clinton, on a more serious note, says (paraphrased) “You start from where you are. Volunteer an hour, two hours a month. Just start. Don’t get hung up that what you can give isn’t enough. You have to start from where you are.”
Clinton is thanking MTV for working with him on this project.
He says today young people have more power to make change than at any other time in human history – highlighting the impact of, among other things, the Internet.
He says if young people want to see the 21st century that they want to live in, we must do 3 things.
1. Make a contribution to society by doing honorable work
2. Be intelligent and active voters and participants in our democracy
3. Be civil servants
This is why they’re expanding the Clinton Global Initiative to young people: to “CGI U”
At the event – we’ll officially launch the ONE Campus Challenge – although we did go out of our way to leak it to our members and blog readers beforehand:)
The event’s set to start at 9 but a bunch of us ONE loyalist have been here for hours making sure to get the word about ONE out to the more than 1,000 young people attending.
In a moment I’ll post a few great shots of the crew and crowd. Even as I sit here, I see more and more people in ONE shirts walking by.
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