Over 1,000 New Yorkers Train for Fight Against Global Disease and Extreme Poverty

New York, NY – ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History has traveled across the country hosting a series of training events to educate ONE members on the emergency of global disease and extreme poverty in Africa and elsewhere in the world’s poorest countries.  With stops in Denver, Houston and Minneapolis/St. Paul, the last Citizens’ Advocacy Training will take place on Saturday in New York City.  Including New York’s expected participants, almost 3,000 individuals registered for ONE Citizens’ Advocacy Training nationwide.

ONE members have already begun to organize around the 2008 presidential primaries and caucuses, engaging candidates in-person and online.  With growing numbers, ONE members continue engaging ’08 contenders.  Senator Sam Brownback, Senator Barack Obama, former Governor Mitt Romney, former Senator John Edwards, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Senator Hillary Clinton and former Speaker Newt Gingrich wore ONE white bands in support of ONE’s mission.

Reaching across political divides, ONE asks elected leaders and presidential candidates to do more to help America lead the world in saving millions of lives in Africa and elsewhere in the world’s poorest countries.  Through ONE.org and working on the ground in communities, colleges and churches across the United States, ONE members work to increase efforts to fight global disease and extreme poverty.