Some ONE volunteers and I just returned from an amazing forum in Norfolk, VA! We heard from some incredible panelists on collaborative, sustainable health care in the developing world at the Physicians for Peace Global Health Forum 2009 at Norfolk State University. Global health expert and humanitarian Dr. Paul Farmer gave the keynote address. Dr. Farmer is founding director of Partners in Health, an organization that works with poor communities worldwide to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease. He was glad to receive another ONE band from his “ONE peeps”, as he put it, and smiled for a picture with ONE volunteers and Brig. General Ron Sconyers, President and CEO of Physicians for Peace (left). General Sconyers has partnered with ONE before as a panelist in the ONE Town Hall discussion at Old Dominion University last month.

There is a lot of exciting advocacy work happening in southeastern Virginia where groups like Operation Smile and ONE partners Operation Blessing International and Physicians for Peace are headquartered – learn more and get involved today!

-Lauren Conn, ONE Field Organizer