Hospitals & Asylums
Dear Friend:
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
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,
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
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.
ONE
REACTION TO G8
On
STATEMENT
FROM ONE:
"The ONE campaign is encouraged by the commitment at the G8
Summit to fighting the crisis of extreme poverty and global AIDS. We
welcome the pledges by G8 leaders to provide an additional $25 billion in
development assistance to address the emergency in
"These pledges are a positive step forward in a comprehensive
debt-aid-trade deal to reduce extreme poverty in the poorest countries. Based
on the outcomes of this summit, the
"ONE will continue to advocate for more and better aid, expanded debt
relief and trade reform that helps poor countries trade their way out of
poverty."
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. Or Hospitals & Asylums G-8 Page HA-7-7-05 with links to African
Social Security HA-7-6-5 and the Kyoto Protocol HA-1-7-05 that complement the
High Level Segment for the Substantive Session of ECOSOC HA-29-6-05
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michelle@data.org, ajansen@bread.org, one@data.org, david_b_nielsen@bankone.com