N8ivWarrior: ONE Public Service Announcement

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ONE Public Service Announcement

Published Friday, December 01, 2006 by John Burkholder | E-mail this post

I am not a person to go around providing plugs for people or groups to provide their valuable time and/or money. But there is one group that is fighting to help end extreme poverty and they are asking for nothing but your name.

The ONE campaign is a worldwide campaign to end AIDS and extreme poverty. There are one billion people living on less than one dollar a day...$365 a year. Because of extreme poverty, one person dies every three seconds. If you can relate this to any death toll in any war (cite):

62,000,000 - World War II (1939–1945), (see World War II casualties)
36,000,000 - An Lushan Rebellion (756–763)
30,000,000–60,000,000 - Mongol Conquests (13th century)
25,000,000 - Manchu conquest of Ming China (1616–1644)
20,000,000–50,000,000 - Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864)
17,000,000 - Timur Lenk's conquests (1370–1405)
15,000,000–66,000,000 - World War I (1914–1918) (see World War I casualties) note that the larger number includes Spanish flu deaths
10,000,000-25,000,000 - Second Sino-Japanese War (1931–1945)
5,000,000–9,000,000 - Russian Civil War (1917–1921)
3,800,000 - Second Congo War (1998–2004)
3,500,000–6,000,000 - Napoleonic Wars (1804–1815) (see Napoleonic Wars casualties)
3,000,000–8,000,000 - Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)
2,500,000–3,500,000 - Korean War (1950–1953)
2,300,000–3,800,000 - Vietnam War (entire war 1945–1975)

The casualty count just last (1) year from extreme poverty:

10,512,000

People are literally starving to death and politicians across the world are not listening. Politicians hear your words about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan which affects our own Americans. But even in America, people are living in extreme poverty, and they are often overlooked.

ONE aims to help Americans raise their voice as ONE against the emergency of AIDS and extreme poverty, so that decision makers will do more to save millions of lives in the poorest countries.

This bring me to my point (as I almost always have one). Take action. They don't want money. They want your name. If you want to help further, visit ONE.

Did you know...

The Tsunami in 2004 that hit a large portion of the Indian Ocean claimed 229,866 lives. Nations all over the world contributed $7 Billion toward reconstruction. America contributed $35 million initially. After public outcry, America contributed $950 million.