Dear Zoltan,
I’m just on my way back from the G8
summit in Northern Ireland, and I wanted to get in touch about the
difference you made.
What an amazing two weeks –
350,406 ONE members called on world leaders to back Africa’s food
revolution and unleash a transparency revolution, and they acted!
Thanks to you and thousands of others,
we are a few steps further down the road towards ending extreme
poverty. 20 million children will now be helped to avoid chronic
malnutrition, and real steps forward have been taken on opening up
secret data, alongside increased natural resource, aid and tax
transparency.
Whether you signed our petition,
contacted your representative, or spread the word about agit8 and the
power of protest – this success is yours.
As ever, there’s a lot more to do to
achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty by 2030 –
leaders didn’t go as far as we’d like, for example, in cracking
down on phantom firms that rob Africa of its resources - but for
today, I just wanted to say thank you.
Here are just some of the brilliant
things ONE has been doing around the world ahead of leaders meeting
in Northern Ireland:
- In London, I presented your voices to Prime Minister David Cameron after Jessie J, Angelique Kidjo and many others performed live outside the Tate Modern as part of ONE’s agit8, calling on leaders to take action towards our goals
- In Washington DC, ONE members headed to the White House to hand in our petition
- In Paris, President Hollande personally received ONE’s petition, and European Commission President Barroso even took our record of protest songs all the way from Brussels to the summit!
- Just before leaders met, we took several transparency champions from Africa and Asia in to Downing Street to tell the Prime Minister face-to-face about the human impact of corruption and secrecy
I couldn’t be more proud of what
we’ve helped achieve so far, together as ONE.
Adrian Lovett, and the whole ONE team
PS. Find out more from inside the G8
summit here, and please do let us know the most memorable part
of the campaign for you too!
Adrian Lovett, ONE.org
