Sent: Your education messages to USAID

For last week’s ONE Act a Week, we asked you to write a personal note to USAID Administrator Raj Shah and call for a US pledge of $375 million for the Global Partnership for Education at Tuesday’s replenishment in Copenhagen.

In just three days, we received 130 awesome messages from our ONE members. We sent those messages to Administrator Shah on Monday afternoon in this tweet:

To which Administrator Shah responded,

And we are happy to say that your actions had an impact on ensuring that over the next three years, 25 million children in developing countries will have the opportunity to complete primary school. With the help of your messages of encouragement behind USAID, the US made their first-ever pledge to the Global Partnership, promising to contribute $20 million in 2012 and to continue to work toward increasing access to education for all.

Thank you so much to everyone who took action last weekend. Your participation truly made a difference! Check out this PDF of all the messages we sent to Raj Shah, and find more info on what the Global Partnership for Education replenishment means here.