Monday, April 16, 2007

Take Action on One Campaign, just takes two clicks

If you don't know about the one campaign, it is a grassroots effort initiated by Bono, to get governments in the Western world to give 1% of budget to end extreme poverty in the developing world.

Extreme poverty is poverty in which people actually don't have enough to continue to live and breath. Currently, 2 billion (1/3) of world population live on less than 2 dollars a day (near extreme poverty), and 1 billion live in extreme poverty. (1/6)

See my friend, Shannon Smith's blog, click on my internet friends on the right, Shannon Smith, then look for the link to urge your senator to push this initiative in Congress. Actually, the US has already agreed to it, and we just get to hold our government to the commitments they have already made.

It only takes about 2 minutes.

If interested in learning more: watch passionate speech from Bono at NAACP awards

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