Sacred Heart Student Makes the Call
Sacred Heart University’s Mike Fazzino, the #4 ranked anti-poverty student advocate in the country, made the Foreign Affairs budget the focus of his school’s Top 10 project for the ONE Campus Challenge. Now he wants you to know why this budget is critical – and what you can do about it. –Emily Stivers
ONE members at Sacred Heart are used to hearing about budgeting. From balancing our own ONE Campus Challenge club’s stipend to weekly updates on SHU’s spending, we recognize the importance of proper finances. That’s why when we saw the opportunity to have our impact on the International Affairs portion of the FY2010 budget (The 150 Account), we jumped at it.
ONE has always taught us that our voices are powerful – which is why we incorporated this sort of lobbying into our final project. We couldn’t bear to see the $4 billion cut from the budget, so we stood behind the Kerry-Lugar amendment and started gaining support for it. The added incentive of a free ONE band for signing (along with the obvious fact we’re saving lives around the world) was enough to garner over 300 signatures on our petitions to Senators Lieberman and Dodd. ONE members at SHU even changed their Facebook, Twitter, and AIM status messages to reflect info on how to contact their local Senators through the Capitol switchboard.
You can join us to strengthen our impact. Please call your senators right now and ask them to vote for the Kerry-Lugar Amendment to restore the cuts to the budget and keep America’s promise to the developing world, helping end global poverty and preventable diseases!
-Mike Fazzino, Sacred Heart University
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