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Our ONE.org Experience
Hallo everyone and sorry for not having written for such a long time - but we have a good excuse. We were working hard, really hard. Just a couple of days ago, Rwanda had very famous and important guests, such as the potential future first lady Cindy McCain and the former president candidate Mike Huckabee. Additionally, there were several Senators and other important American politicians. But how is all this connected to us? It's as simple as we were organising their stay in Rwanda, together with the ONE campaign. ONE.org actually invited all those influencial people to Rwanda in order to show them progresses and deficits of the American development aid. For those of you, who never heard about ONE: it's a great thing! To be exact, it's a U.S.-based, nonpartisan, non-profit organization which aims to increase United States government funding for and effectiveness of international aid programs. It was co-founded by Bono, the lead singer of U2. ONE is supported worldwide by more than 2 million people and is able to mobilize important people, such as movie stars (Clooney, Diaz, Damon, Pompeo), musicians (Bob Geldorf) and politicians. Anyway, some of those guys were in Rwanda, and as a local tour operator aiming at sustainable development NDA was predestined to help organising this trip. It was extremly exciting and interesting to work with those people and see how advocacy works in reality. We were mainly responsible for the logistics but we also had to run an office, to which all those guys had access 24 hours a day. In september, ONE returns to Rwanda, most probable accompanied by some Hollywood actors. :) We will let you know!
So long: big hugs and kisses from Rwanda! Yours Ricarda and Tanja!
P.S.: Check out the following links to learn more about ONE - www.one.org and www.onevote08.org
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