The ONE Campaign

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What is The ONE Campaign?
ONE is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans – ONE by ONE – to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. The ONE Campaign is engaging Americans through a diverse coalition of faith-based and anti-poverty organizers to show the steps people can take, ONE by ONE, to fight global AIDS and poverty.

Why is The ONE Campaign needed?
Right now, the US government is making decisions about how much money to spend on humanitarian assistance next year and the UK is poised to lead the world’s wealthiest nations at the G8 summit next July. By joining the ONE campaign, we will show our leaders that we want to do more to respond to the emergency of AIDS and extreme poverty. More>

The campaign was launched at a rally in Philadelphia with the help of U2's Bono

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What is the goal of The ONE Campaign?
The ONE Campaign seeks to give Americans a voice, to ring church bells and cell phones, on campuses and in coffee shops, for an historic pact to fight the global AIDS emergency and end extreme poverty. We believe that allocating an additional ONE percent of the U.S. budget toward providing basic needs like health, education, clean water and food, would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation of the poorest countries.

Who founded The ONE Campaign?
The ONE Campaign was founded by Bread for the World, CARE, DATA, International Medical Corps, International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, Oxfam America, Plan USA, Save the Children US, World Concern, and World Vision, and works closely with the National Basketball Association, Rock the Vote, and the Millennium Campaign.

How does ONE link to international agreements to fight poverty?
ONE links directly to the international effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. 1% more of the US federal budget would help save millions of lives and be a major commitment towards achieving the internationally agreed upon United Nations Millennium Development Goals. If it is delivered, we would achieve 0.35% of national wealth going to Official Development Assistance - half way to the international commitment to achieve 0.7%. Longer term, so long as we can prove the money is working, the goal is for the US to continue to increase effective assistance until it meets the international commitment to give 0.7% of the national wealth. This is an appropriate goals for ten years time, or 2015, the deadline for achieving the Millennium Goals.

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Who has signed The ONE Campaign declaration?
ONE participants include celebrities such as Bono, lead singer of U2 and DATA co-founder; Dikembe Mutombo, NBA All-Star and advocate for Africa; Michael W. Smith Grammy Award winning Musician; Agnes Nyamayarwo, Ugandan Nurse and Global AIDS activist, and representatives of national advocacy organisations such as Bread for the World, World Vision, GLobal Health Council, The Better Safer World Coalition, DATA and many others.

The ONE Campaign grew out of the Heart of America tour in 2002, in which a busload of citizens and celebrities toured the mid-West in support of a new U.S. initiative on global AIDS. The success of that trip insured that a new constituency of Americans were raising their voices for Africa and needed to be heard. Together with the Better Safer World Campaign, representing nine of the largest, most effective private aid agencies (with 3 million supporters) working together to fight global poverty, and Bread for the World, a Christian voice for ending hunger for more than 30 years, the ONE campaign got off to a great start.

We launched the campaign in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia on May 16 with the help of supporters like the NBA and U2's Bono, co-founder of DATA. Since then, over 100,000 people have signed the declaration to support an historic pact for compassion and justice – and help the poorest people in the world overcome AIDS and extreme poverty.

Please take ONE minute today and sign the Declaration.

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Brad Pitt and the ONE campaign visited Africa in November, 2004

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AIDS
More than 38 million people around the world are infected by HIV/AIDS, 25 million in Africa alone. Left untreated, AIDS leads to an early death for people in their most productive years who are needed to raise crops and families, teach school and care for the sick. For more information about global AIDS click here. More>

EXTREME POVERTY
Extreme poverty means living on less than $1 a day, unimaginable to us as Americans. ONE in five people around the world survives on this amount, with few opportunities to earn more. For more information about extreme poverty click here. More>

EDUCATION
Parents in Malawi know just as well as parents in Missouri that education is crucial to their children's future. But around the world, 104 million children do not go to grade school, because their parents cannot afford fees, books or uniforms for all their children. For more information about getting children into school click here. More>

Richard Stearns of World Vision helped launch the ONE campaign at a rally in Philadelphia...WATER
ONE person in seven has no access to clean water for drinking, cooking or washing. In addition to spreading disease, this has multiple negative effects –– girls growing up in villages without water are far less likely to attend school because they're too busy spending hours walking to and from the nearest water source. For more information about clean water click here. More>

CORRUPTION
While corruption is harmful to all governments, losing resources to corrupt leaders is particularly devastating in poor countries where ever dollar lost results in one less child in school or one less well dug to provide clean water. Approaches like America's Millennium Challenge which direct assistance to honest governments are the most effective, as is channeling assistance through private (and faith-based) relief and development agencies. For more information about fighting corruption in the poorest countries click here. More>

FOOD
Around the world, ONE person in seven goes to bed hungry each night. We need to address hunger not just by giving food, but helping farmers in poor countries grow better crops and helping countries build farm-to-market roads so farmers can supply distant cities. For more information about hunger click here. More>

ORPHANS
18 million children have already lost one or both parents to AIDS, 12 million of them are in Africa alone. Unless more is done, there will be 25 million of these children around the world by 2010. We have the opportunity to help. For more information about orphans, click here. More>

TRADE
As much as people in poor countries appreciate development assistance, no one wants to rely on a handout –– they want to trade their way out of poverty –– but international rules make it difficult. A fair trade system would give people in poor countries the chance to earn their way out of poverty by participating in the world economy. For more information about trade rules click here. More>

DEBT CANCELLATION
Every year Sub-Saharan Africa, the poorest region of the world, spends $14.5 billion dollars repaying debts to the world's richest countries and international institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Though we've made efforts to relieve them of these unpayable debts, many poor countries still spend more each year on debt than on health care or education. For more information about debt cancellation click here. More>

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By directing an additional ONE percent of the U.S. budget toward providing the most basic needs – and fighting the corruption that wastes precious resources –– we can help transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the poorest countries.





With an additional ONE percent of our budget:
•We can help prevent 10 million children from becoming AIDS orphans

•We can help get 104 million children into grade school.

•We can help provide water to almost 900 million people around the globe.

•We can save almost 6.5 million children under 5 from dying of diseases that could be prevented with low-cost measures like vaccination or a well for clean water.

•We can build a better, safer world for all.

30 million girls in sub-Saharan Africa dont have access to schools. Getting girls into school is one of the best ways to improve their futures, their health and the health of their families.



ONE percent of the U.S. budget is $25 billion, and redirecting that much money would have to be done over time. Directed to honest governments, private charities and faith-based organizations, this support would provide the tools and resources they need to really make a difference. American support would be part of a compact with poor countries who fight corruption and use their own resources to help their people out of poverty. American leadership would be an example for rich countries in Europe and Asia to do their share to help the poorest people in the world.

Bono and Michael W. Smith
Lead singer U2 (Bono) and Grammy Award winning Christian musician (Smith)
DATA official site

Cheating Kay

Cheating Kay's official website

George Clooney
Actor

John Cusack
Actor

Cameron Diaz
Actress

Perry Farrell

Jane's Addiction official website

Bob Geldof
Founder-Band Aid, Live Aid. Boomtown Rats

Danny Glover
Actor

Isaac Hayes
Funk Pioneer, Chef
Official site

jars of clay
jars of clay official website
jars of clay at Spirit Song Festival

Jimmy Eat World
In an LA studio
Official Jimmy Eat World site

Ryan Key
of Yellowcard
Yellow Card's official website

Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews Band Official site

Walter McCarty
Boston Celtic
Boston Celtics official website

Mary McClymont
President, InterAction
InterAction Website

Dikembe Mutumbo
NBA All Star
Dikembe Mutumbo Foundation

The Newsboys

Newsboys official site

No Doubt

No Doubt official site

Agnes Nyamayarwo
Ugandan Nurse
TASO official site

Brad Pitt
Actor

Relient K

Relient K official website
Relient K at Creation West Festival

Walter Salas-Humara
The Silos
The Silos offical website

Claudia Schiffer
Supermodel

Michael Stipe
REM
REM official site

Switchfoot
So Cal rockers
Official site

Third Day

Third Day's official website

Third Day at SoulFest

tobyMac

Offical tobyMac website

Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam official site

Kirk Whalum

Kirk Whalum's official website

Andy Zipf
Andy Zipf's official website

High Profile Signatories:
Claudia Schiffer
Eddie Vedder
Bono and Michael W. Smith
Jimmy Eat World
Dikembe Mutumbo
Dave Matthews
Agnes Nyamayarwo
Danny Glover
Isaac Hayes
Michael Stipe
Switchfoot
Bob Geldof
Brad Pitt
Mary McClymont
Kirk Whalum
No Doubt
The Newsboys
tobyMac
Walter Salas-Humara
Walter McCarty
Relient K
jars of clay
Cheating Kay
Third Day
John Cusack
Andy Zipf
Perry Farrell
Ryan Key
George Clooney
George Clooney
Cameron Diaz

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[Dapper Dan]

Bush proposes anti-malaria campaign in Africa

By Steve Holland 28 minutes ago



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush, under pressure to provide more help to Africa ahead of a Group of Eight summit next week, proposed on Thursday that Washington take on a greater role in combating malaria in sub-Saharan Africa as part of what he called a doubling of U.S. aid.

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With Africa a top agenda item for G8 leaders meeting July 6 to 8 in Gleneagles, Scotland, Bush said he would ask Congress to spend $1.2 billion through 2008 to help fight malaria, which claims an estimated 1.2 million people a year worldwide, 95 percent of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

In addition, the White House announced $400 million for an African education initiative over four years to help improve basic education for millions of African children.

Bush is under pressure to increase aid for Africa after having turned down a proposal by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to give the continent as much as $50 billion a year by making long-term aid commitments that would allow poor countries to raise money on global capital markets.

Blair, whose country holds the rotating presidency this year of the G8 grouping of wealthy countries, is still pushing for other nations to join in his plan after declaring 2005 a make-or-break year for plans to lift Africa out of poverty.

Bush said the United States will take action next year in Tanzania, Uganda and Angola to provide malaria assistance.

"America will bring this anti-malaria effort to at least four more highly endemic African countries in 2007 and at least five more in 2008. In the next five years with the approval of Congress we'll spend more than $1.2 billion on this campaign," Bush said in a speech to the Hudson Institute.

He said this was part of an effort to double U.S. assistance to Africa by 2010.

California Democratic Rep. Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record), ranking Democrat on the House of Representatives International Relations Committee, welcomed the announcement but said "it comes with no commitment to use new funding resources in the first year, so it will take money from existing health programs" for Africa.

"This is typical of the administration's rhetoric on African aid," he said. "This administration is playing a shell game with all assistance to Africa except its high-profile efforts on HIV/ AIDS."

Chad Dobson, U.S. policy director for the anti-poverty organization Oxfam, said Bush's pledge will mean an extra $900 million a year for Africa and this is a welcome first step.

"However it is widely calculated that $25 billion is needed annually for Africa so we hope the announcement today is just the beginning of a much bigger US commitment to fighting poverty," he said.

(Additional reporting by Tabassum Zakaria)

 

[Dapper Dan]

[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]ONE Reacts to President Bush’s Pre-G8 Africa Speech[/font] [font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
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Today, President Bush pledged to double American assistance to Africa over the next five years. The president will ask Congress for $1.2 billion on a five-year campaign to fight malaria, $400 million during the next four years to train 500,000 teachers and provide scholarships to 300,000 young people, mostly girls; and $55 million during the next three years to promote justice for women.

Statement from ONE:



Today, President Bush committed to helping overcome extreme poverty in Africa. The president's public commitment to this bold goal -- ONE's goal -- is very welcome. But it is the first step down a very long road, which must include significant additional funding to achieve that goal such as putting every child in school. The new U.S. malaria initiative is a very promising effort, and we also applaud the president's focus on partnership with African leaders, not paternalism. As billions take part in the Live 8 concerts around the world the world this weekend, we'll raise our voices as ONE to encourage our leaders to pay for and implement these bold commitments -- and do more.

 

[Dapper Dan]

Dear Friend:

Only hours from now, President Bush touches down in Scotland for the G8 Africa summit. Tomorrow, a delegation travels to this meeting with millions of letters from around the world, asking the G8 leaders to take up a new fight against global AIDS and poverty. Will they carry your signature and voice?

We only have 24 hours left: Sign the ONE letter to President Bush and join 390,000 Americans in asking for an historic debt, aid and trade deal for the world's poorest people.

At Live 8 this past Saturday, more than 1 million people from Hollywood to Hip-Hop to the Heartland called in one voice for an end to extreme poverty and global AIDS. In living rooms from Des Moines to Johannesburg, 2 billion people tuned into the concerts on TV and asked for real change in Africa.

Live 8 was not just about one Saturday. It was one day in a long walk to justice. Don't let this opportunity pass without taking a minute to change the lives of a generation - through something as easy as sending an email. We made a noise the world has never heard on Saturday, will President Bush and other leaders hear us?

Ask at least 3 friends and family to sign the ONE letter to President Bush today.

In the next few days, eight men will huddle around a table to decide the fate of millions of lives in a new and historic solution for those who need it most. Sign the ONE letter today.

Thank you,

The ONE Team

 

[Dapper Dan]

Dear Friend:

https://owa.roanoke.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.one.org/ActionEmail.aspx

This is a big thank you to all 1.5 million of you who joined together as ONE to do something extraordinary.

From the 500,000 letters you sent to President Bush to Live 8 in Philadelphia to the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, you called on eight men to do more to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty, and they heard your call. In Scotland this past Friday, overcoming the shadow of a tragic day in London, President Bush joined G8 leaders in an unprecedented deal to cancel debts and double aid to Africa.

For African nations fighting poverty and corruption, this means a $25 billion increase in aid and wiping out 100% of their debts. With this funding, Africa can halve deaths from malaria, put millions of children into school, and 10 million people across the world will have access to lifesaving AIDS drugs. Behind each of these numbers is one person, one life that will be changed forever.

For the first time ever, everyday Americans like you joined together to take a seat at the negotiating table, asking the world's most powerful leaders to do more to help the world's poorest people. Because you signed the ONE Declaration, wore the white band and forwarded emails to friends about ONE, you made a huge step toward making poverty history. We've come so far and still have far to go.

Keep the momentum going, email 3 friends about ONE today.

This agreement is a real victory for Africa - but promises made of words will only become promises for a generation if we keep watching, asking and acting. Much more needs to be done in Washington DC to turn these commitments into lifesaving programs, and the world must take new steps to make trade fair. More meetings will take place this year in New York and Hong Kong where a comprehensive debt-aid-trade deal can be reached and end global AIDS and extreme poverty in our time.

We can be that great generation. As ONE, let's keep up the positive pressure and make 2005 the year we joined together to make history.

Thank you,

The ONE Team

P.S. You can learn more about the details of the G8 deal by checking out the ONE.ORG G8 page.