Thursday, November 03, 2005
Have You Signed the One Declaration Yet?
Fact: 30,000 people will die today of preventable disease and extreme poverty
Fact: 70% of Sub-Saharan Africans live on less than $2 a day
Fact: 25 million Africans have HIV, over 2 million of them children
Fact: As Americans - citizens of the most wealthy and most powerful nation in the world - we have the power to change Africa right now with our voices.
Please, if you haven't already, take a moment to sign the One Campaign Declaration:
Fact: 70% of Sub-Saharan Africans live on less than $2 a day
Fact: 25 million Africans have HIV, over 2 million of them children
Fact: As Americans - citizens of the most wealthy and most powerful nation in the world - we have the power to change Africa right now with our voices.
Please, if you haven't already, take a moment to sign the One Campaign Declaration:
WE BELIEVE that in the best American tradition of helping others help
themselves, now is the time to join with other countries in a historic pact for
compassion and justice to help the poorest people of the world overcome AIDS and
extreme poverty.WE RECOGNIZE that a pact including such measures as fair trade, debt relief, fighting corruption and directing additional resources for basic needs - education, health, clean water, food, and care for orphans - would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the poorest countries, at a cost equal to just one percent more of the US budget.
WE COMMIT ourselves - one person, one voice, one vote at a time - to make a better, safer world for all.
