You’re amazing. Thank you.
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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16/06/2011 at 4:54 pm
I am peoud to have played a part in this successful campaign, well done.
16/06/2011 at 4:58 pm
16/06/2011 at 6:26 pm
Of equal important,I have just heard the press weeks of the successful campaign that i am as of the done!
16/06/2011 at 6:37 pm
I would love to be more involved with ONE(participating in campaigns, conferences, workshops, events etc) if possible. I am from Nigeria and an undergraduate of Geology. I am about to start an NGO(Future Generations) aimed at helping children cultivate reading culture and learn a skill or two. So, I believe ONE.org will partner with us in the near future. Thank you ONE.org Team for all the efforts.
16/06/2011 at 6:51 pm
its about our effort not going in vain…Congrate
16/06/2011 at 6:59 pm
Brasil, sempre com um coração enorme ajudando quem precisa! ♥
16/06/2011 at 7:00 pm
This just Thanking every body and the Director of this charity you’re doing to the world we pray to God to continue blessing and adding more people to join you and this project.
16/06/2011 at 7:20 pm
Great Work!!!
May God showers His special BLESSINGS on you to continue this work!!!
Thanks a million!!!
16/06/2011 at 7:30 pm
Hello friends of the campaign! THANKS!
I have 16 years carolina’m from Uruguay, Montevideo
I tell them that for me this campaign is very important as it is very important to fight these diseases today live in this world.
I love everything that has to do with HUMAN RIGHTS .. For this reason I am studying 3rd in high school, to get started my specialty is sociology.
thank you very much for all the messages I send!
Salu2! AND LIVE THE CAMPAIGN ONE WITH U2!
16/06/2011 at 7:56 pm
Essa campanha foi incrível, mas tenho certeza que nós, membros da ONE ainda vamos conseguir muito mais para ajudar as milhares de crianças que precisam ser atendidas.
Continuemos assim!!
16/06/2011 at 8:09 pm
I love to hear about children -being saved and feed .take care -Jeannie
16/06/2011 at 8:29 pm
Great job pliz support countries like zimbabwe mozambique zambia and maliwi in africa we need you god bless
16/06/2011 at 8:42 pm
I am so happy to hear that! More actions like this and we can really change a world! Well we did in some point!
16/06/2011 at 9:56 pm
Todos nós, que acreditamos num mundo melhor, estamos de parabéns! Agradeço a ONE por me dar a oportunidade de participar desta e de outras campanhas e ajudar tantas pessoas. Que essa vitória nos dê mais entusiamo e inspiração para seguir na luta por dias felizes para todos!
16/06/2011 at 9:56 pm
Great job! I’m so happy with this. Thanks to ONE and to brazilian people.
16/06/2011 at 10:49 pm
We need more actions like that but doing a little we can do bigger. WELL DONE to everyone. Even living in London I was happy to heard about Brazil taking part, even been persuade.
16/06/2011 at 10:50 pm
Congratulations to all who voted! Together we can achieve our goals and make this world better for everyone. It’s a wonderful feeling to see our voices do matter.
16/06/2011 at 10:50 pm
fantastic work, just shows what a potential for change the organisation has. You can have all those dubious governments shaking in their shoes
16/06/2011 at 10:56 pm
¡¡¡CONGRATULATIONS!!!! YOU CAN ALWAYS COUNT WITH ME.
16/06/2011 at 10:58 pm
no thank you for believing in good people who voted, those who pledged and most importantly who started the organisation. oh and Dont forget the LORD JESUS is merciful always and he loves you keep up the good work voters and everyone else.
16/06/2011 at 11:04 pm
Parabéns a todos os membros da ONE!!!Espero que estejámos juntos muitos anos para poder ajudar a melhorar este mundo,principalmente as crianças…
16/06/2011 at 11:08 pm
É um orgulho ter tido a oportunidade de fazer parte deste GRANDE grupo! Ser membro da ONE é também uma responsabilidade… Together we can make things happen! Congratulations!
17/06/2011 at 12:19 am
Thank you very much everyone, is proud to be part of ONE. Let us fight for a better world. God bless you
17/06/2011 at 12:39 am
Thank you ONE members this is a start for a better and brighter world for us and the next generation. I will encourage more of my friends to join the org. God bless us all.
17/06/2011 at 12:43 am
just hope this continues growing day by day!!!
ONE members you’re doing and extraprdinay job! never quit
so glad I could help
17/06/2011 at 12:44 am
u can always count on me! best of luck
17/06/2011 at 1:23 am
Thank you!
Hope to continue.
17/06/2011 at 2:00 am
Es una excelente iniciativa para mejorar la expectativa de vida de miilones de niños desprotegidos.
Muy buen comienzo para ONE supporters.
17/06/2011 at 2:34 am
It is nice to see that humanity is still a part of our modern lifestyle. Let’s keep doing the best we can to preserve the well-being of those who can’t do it themselves
17/06/2011 at 2:52 am
congratulations for all of us!! who helpped this campaing be realized…is really a great feeling know that we are helping 4 milion lives.
I hope the ONE continues growing, and we, people of all the world, help it to be done.
we are doing an amazing job.
17/06/2011 at 3:17 am
Hi fro Argentina.
Thanks to you for send me an email, I’m really proud of course.
I’m so happy to know that I can help just with a little bit, that’s incredible!
Congratulation!
XOXO
Love & Peace
17/06/2011 at 4:19 am
This is great news! Thanks so much, all of you who have been working hard on this, for making this happen. As a single, lone, taxpayer, I am glad to see our money going to such worthwhile efforts. When I think of these vaccines giving young people an extra chance at health, a little more protection, I realize that they will have that one more chance to grow up to become great people!
17/06/2011 at 6:21 am
Congratulations! I wish to tell you many many things but I don’t know very well english. So I send to you only positive energy.
17/06/2011 at 6:48 am
Thank you for all your hardwork and representing the children of the world as they are the future leaders and we must fight for them. As a South African I am proud to be part of the voices. May God give you more power to fight for the kids. God Bless ONE ORG
17/06/2011 at 7:00 am
This means that one day-soon- ‘MOST’ children, regardless of what part of the world they live in- will have an equal chance of survival. Let’s celebrate this, then get back to work and ensure ‘ALL’ children get the same chance.
Thanks and congrats to all that helped. There is still work to be done!
17/06/2011 at 7:06 am
I am so proud to be a ONE member , to make the world a better place for the entire universe , to care enough for the living. Keep up the good work . What you are doing is worth commenting on. God bless you All and keep you for more years to come.
Compasion is more powerful than anger. Loving one another is really what God want us to do.
regards
Pauline
God bless
17/06/2011 at 7:07 am
It is all very well saving all these people, but the world is so over populated surely money should be also being put into birth control. These people may be saved as babies, but their lives will be very hard, and they in turn will produce poverty stricken children.Give people a better life, without producing more heartache .Stop people breeding.
17/06/2011 at 7:13 am
I believe all children should be vaccinated from the main diseases (not the flu viruses because there is no such thing as a vaccine for the flu/cold). Diseases such as polio, chicken pox, measles, and mumps should be available to all children world-wide. May all animals and people be free from disease, and enjoy good, lasting health!
17/06/2011 at 7:20 am
Thank you all for signing the petition, God’s Richest blessings. Charmaine McDonald
17/06/2011 at 8:10 am
For the first time since I am in ONE organization I felt like I finally did something… Feeling I really needed. So hard to identify with people/institution I can´t “touch “, even if every day I work with suffering people; victims of violence, rapes, modern slavery. Few days ago I was in hospital with little girl from Africa and her mom. Doctors asked so many questions… Some were confusing, some impolite, some important. One of this questions was about vaccinations. She was lucky, had everything they needed. Safe. I am happy because of our success. Go on! It is a work to do. Just one thing: let´s put money or ask about money not only just to fix something, let´t put them to prevent and teach e.g. birth control etc.
17/06/2011 at 8:28 am
I am really elated by the commendation of the Director of ONE. I’m very happy to be a ONE member and I also thank my friend that brought me into ONE, thanks a million times.
I will like to do more for ONE in my locality. Once again thanks and God bless!
17/06/2011 at 8:59 am
A journey of one thousand mile start with step,Ladies and gently man we have achieve it and less do more to serve more of vulnerable children .
As the world celebrate AFRICAN CHILD yesterday i have been devastated by a situation that some children are in Kenya and also drought affected children in Northern Kenya lets the Executives present to the world leaders next time they meet and let it be prioritize it .
(i hope that our support over the next IMF Boss will left an impact and our views will be considered )
thanks to all the members and board directors
17/06/2011 at 9:16 am
I’m very happy to be a ONE member.May the Good Lord bless you in all your attemps to save the world.
Keep up the wonderfull works, God Bless!!!
Christine Minnaar (JHB SA)
17/06/2011 at 9:25 am
Together we can make a stand!
God bless the incredible work ONE does!
So proud!
x
17/06/2011 at 9:35 am
OBRIGADO ONE
Só espero que os Governadores Mundiais tenham em conta o esforço e a dedicação, de todos os membros desta fantástica organização, bem como de muitas outras e não se esqueçam do que prometem escondendo-se atrás de relatórios Económicos para justificarem esse incumprimento.
O nosso Planeta está Doente, mas não é só devido as doenças fisicas e mentais, está doente por Dinheiro, Ganãncia e Poder. Esqueçam tudo isto e lembrem-se acima de tudo sem Crianças não haverá amanhã e não Haverá Poder, Dinheiro ou onde e com quem Gastá-lo por isso e acima de tudo por todos os nossos Filhos. THANK YOU ONE, THANK YOU BONO AND TANKS ALL OF US MEMBERS.
17/06/2011 at 9:36 am
Pleased with the success!
There is still much to do …
Thank you all!
17/06/2011 at 10:10 am
I also thank all the members that took part for the successful of this project and all the Countries that had time spare and share. Keep up ONE and God bless you.
17/06/2011 at 10:45 am
for once a seeming victory
17/06/2011 at 11:04 am
Good luck with the roll-out of this campaign – long needed. Thank you.
17/06/2011 at 11:14 am
JAH DA ALMIGHTY BLESS u all for the good deeds that u guyz are doin. keep on keepin on!