For months now, we’ve been asking our ONE members to give it all they have on our vaccine campaign. We asked our members to use every advocacy tool and skill they had to make sure that we won this important fight to save 4 million children in five years. Thanks to this hard work we generated more than 300,000 signatures on our petition.
ONE members sent hundreds of letters to members of parliament in the UK, and in the USA we swamped the Whitehouse with tweets. In South America our volunteers recruited thousands of new members who have added to the weight of our international voice. In Australia ONE members called and emailed the foreign minister’s office, and in Germany the outstanding youth messengers were hard at work gathering support.
Because of your skill at advocacy, your hard work and a ton of determination, it worked. We won!
On Monday in London, world leaders and private donors promised a remarkable $4.3 Billion over the next 5 years – this exceeded the $3.7billion that we hoped for. When Bill Gates announced he was contributing a billion dollars to the fund, he mentioned our campaigning work in his speech.
This really has been a historic week and our Executive Director Jamie Drummond made this video to thank you.
As a campaigner for ONE, I can’t tell you how proud I am of each and every one of you and you all should be very proud of yourselves.
It just goes to show that when we use our voices and work together, we can make amazing, lasting change in the world. So, give yourselves a well-deserved pat on the back and tell us how you feel in the comments below. Thanks to you, millions of kids around the world have a brighter future.
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20/06/2011 at 12:18 pm
AS an African and a Nigerian, I am happy that am a part of the thril, impacting, changing, giving hope and a future to the future leaders of our generation.
Can you facilitate a network of ONE members worldwide 2 facilitate interactions. We need 2 know ourselves.
THANKS TO THE SPIRIT AND THE LARGE HEART OF BILL GATE and others.
20/06/2011 at 12:36 pm
It is great to be part of atem that makes changes in the world inclusive of those who are poor. There are still greater things to. Thanks to Bill Gates and the others who were not mentioned individually. God bless you and may He abundantly bless you all
20/06/2011 at 1:57 pm
it brings a sense of humanity in joining hands so as to reduce poverty especially in Africa.I am really proud of this important discourse and feel very privileged in showing solidarity and commitment to woe world leaders.
20/06/2011 at 2:28 pm
Good job! But I need a Job. I’m a university graduate (History and International Relations) and also, I hold a diploma in French Language (A2).
See how best you guys can help.
Thanks.
20/06/2011 at 4:30 pm
This is really amaizing am so proud of being a one member.please keep up the good work.
20/06/2011 at 11:11 pm
My girlfriend and I are incredibly happy to see this happen.
Support ONE
Support Amnesty International
Make cruetly-free lifestyle choices…
Show respect and care for your others….
Live an awesome life!
21/06/2011 at 8:12 pm
When i joined one, it was partly the world cup fever. I didnt know that i was gonna be part of a team that changes peoples live. Am proud of the achievements of one members. May be we should have an anthem for one members!
22/06/2011 at 12:02 am
wow! Let’t do more
22/06/2011 at 12:17 am
wow! Let’s do more
22/06/2011 at 8:24 am
I’m happy that millions of lives will be saved, let us unite and continue the good work that we are doing.
22/06/2011 at 12:11 pm
I am very pleased.
But we should also campaign for clean water and good sanitation
22/06/2011 at 8:54 pm
Very good, glad to know that my contribution was useful for saving the lives of so many children!
23/06/2011 at 3:50 pm
“WE” helped make a difference in the world!
yes…. this makes me a little more human
23/06/2011 at 4:00 pm
Great Great work. Not just 4 or 5 countries but all the countries in the world should come on as one to support such causes, if they hope to remove poverty, hunger and diseases around the world.
23/06/2011 at 6:27 pm
i am glad and happy that am a member of one goal and a member that is helping the young ones to be free,thanks to the publisher of one,more grace to your elbow but please can you do me a favour ,how can all the members of one goal communicate with each other worldwide.thanks stay bless.
24/06/2011 at 4:55 am
with this achievement i believe we can do more. Thank God for one goal
24/06/2011 at 6:29 am
Wow! Thats awesome may God almighty bless bill gate and all other donors and also may God bless every ONE MEMBER AM PROUD OF BEEN A MEMBER, what about having an anthem? I think that will b good. GOD BLESS YOU ALL…….
24/06/2011 at 6:33 am
Wow! Thats awesome may God almighty bless bill gate and all other donors and also may God bless every ONE MEMBER AM PROUD OF BEEN A MEMBER, what about having an anthem? I think that will b good. GOD BLESS YOU ALL……. Long live ONE GOAL……
24/06/2011 at 6:35 am
Lets do more
24/06/2011 at 9:18 am
Hey, it is fantastic that we can impact so positively on this matter. I am just proud that i had my voice heard and to all the othe ONE members, i salute you!
25/06/2011 at 12:36 am
Estou muito orgulhosa!! Sempre que necessário, contem com o meu apoio, fico muito feliz de saber, que ainda existem pessoas que se preocupam com o nosso querido planeta…
ONE sempre! ♥
25/06/2011 at 10:56 am
wow, its so so beautiful to be part of a course that will see to the eradication of disease, hunger,insensitivity, inequality(racial & religious) & possibly WAR from this our only Earth. May God Almighty bless Mr. Bill Gates & other willing donors real good for trying to make the ONE dream a reality.
25/06/2011 at 11:19 am
Good start. I hope this makes a real progress. Thank you for the chance to help.
25/06/2011 at 1:29 pm
we need your help for church building and children orphan home humble request to you in jesus name,
in HIS service .
pastor gollamudigeorge
25/06/2011 at 11:47 pm
i’m glad we’ve made a difference. and i’m privileged to be the part of the great team.
26/06/2011 at 2:25 am
We appreciate the great work you have being doing. I am glad to be apart of this great team, could the team also help us with monetary grant for further development of our production house in music
26/06/2011 at 3:08 pm
That’s feel great !!!!! ^^
26/06/2011 at 5:56 pm
me encantò el proyecto estoy muy orgullosa y feliz que sigan asì!!!!!!!!
26/06/2011 at 7:48 pm
It’s a honor to be a part of this human job, for a better world to live.
27/06/2011 at 2:48 am
Thank You
This is an important goal for all that love humankind
27/06/2011 at 4:06 am
….Am more than happy to hear the good news of succes,and may God continue to open door’s In were thir’s no hope for us in Jesus….AMEN.Am proud to be a member.One Love To My Fellow Members
27/06/2011 at 8:08 am
I am excited by the successful and fruitful effort made. Thank you all who supported this magnificent action. God Bless You All.
28/06/2011 at 9:42 am
one life saved is as good as saving the whole world the right of life means human rights the right of a child life is the first right of the child s rights. very child life is a hope for a better world
28/06/2011 at 11:24 am
My husband and I love the way you address all of us in such personal terms that make us feel that the little effort of reading your mail actually contributes to the Cause of the day. I also like the suggestion by other participants that we come up with our very own anthem. I believe this can be achieved by requesting sympathetic composers to come up with appropriate lyrics and we can all get involved by singing the chorus on-line and recording it for the world.
In the meantime, we are very proud to be part of ONE.com
29/06/2011 at 4:05 pm
good work, i’m glad it success
01/07/2011 at 9:40 am
It is always better that we share our wealth with everybody, it is wrong that some die for nothing just he/she is born in the wrong part of the world.
Let us share more and make ourselves habitants of the world and not just your own country.
02/07/2011 at 1:43 pm
support children as a future nation and women as Gods instruments of creation.
02/07/2011 at 1:45 pm
be blest to give to the needy.
02/07/2011 at 1:46 pm
thanks
02/07/2011 at 1:47 pm
tha nks
03/07/2011 at 4:11 am
hi,
It gives me great joy to be part of this amazing result, it’s really unbelievable to see what happens when people decide to get together and fight for a great cause. many of us may not think that by sumply giving our email to form part of an organization, may mean something, but if u truly believe in your heart in the cause that you area fighting for, things will fal into place and great things will come out as a result.
thank u for giving me the oppportunity.
Im a proud member =)
Ill continue to spread the voice!
K.
03/07/2011 at 5:20 pm
I feel great to be a part of ONE, we get and achieve by joining together and be strong to gether, count on me, I feel strong being a part of this solidarity
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09/07/2011 at 12:40 am
I think it’s awesome, i’m really happy to know that ONE is dong this things and others want to work with ONE to continue making this possible.
14/07/2011 at 4:43 pm
I´m happy to helping in this target, and people like you some day will change the world and we´ll be better humanity. Congratulations¡
16/07/2011 at 7:32 pm
I AM PROUD TO BE A MEMBER “ONE” MAKE HOPING WORK FOR PEOPLE OF THE WORLD WHERE THERE IS NO HOPE.. ONE SPIRIT ONE LOVE TOGETHER WE CAN RULE THE WORLD TO RIGHT PART OF SOLVING GLOBAL DISASTER WITH GRACE ABOUNDING FROM OUR HEAVENLY FATHER….GOD..!
THIS IS AN AWESOME RESULT ,,,,,,WE ARE GREAT ….ONE 11111111S
16/07/2011 at 9:14 pm
being ONE member is a privileged. its a great honor to be part of this organization…i cant imagine how my little action does a great impact for the others.
as long as 1NE is here…there’s still hope…just keep on dreaming and live by that dream…PEACE!!!
10/09/2011 at 8:54 pm
Dear Brothers,
I am very proud! ONE is a blessed mechanism to spread love, to spread the fairness among our brothers suffering from the terrible profits that arise from the selfishness. Lots of diseases are killing in virtue of the absent conditions within the poverty. Surely, the resources are elsewhere, and ONEs turn out to depict the lack. We are ONEs, but very important ONEs.