does this even work?
For those of you who read my blog, you know of my heart for the poorest countries in the world. You are also aware of my involvement with one.org, the campaign to make poverty history. I have had many people ask me, "Is one really making a difference? To answer that question, I have copied an email I just received from Katie Andrews. Katie is the One Organizer for our region. Please read all the way to the end, and take action ...
The Senate just passed the 2007 continuing resolution - 81 to 15! The House had previously voted in favor of it, 286-140.
So what does this all mean, and why are we so excited? I'll let the ONE blog explain:
As you might recall, if congressional leaders had gone ahead with their plan to pass a straight continuing resolution, federal funding would have remained at 2006 levels for all of fiscal year 2007, and critical poverty programs would have lost an expected $1 billion increase. Hundreds of thousands of people whose lives relied on that funding would have died.
ONE members came together, however, and called, faxed, emailed, wrote letters and even met with their members of Congress, urging them to recover as much of the money as possible. All in all, ONE members sent more than 200,000 letters urging Congress to fully fund the fight against extreme poverty in 2007.
This is a huge victory not only for people living in extreme poverty, but also for our campaign. These results show that all of your hard work really does make a difference. 200,000 letters will make anyone take notice.
I want to thank all of you that called, wrote, and generally got all up in your representative's grill on this one. Let's keep it up everyone, you really are changing lives...