Ask the Senate to Pass the Durbin-Smith Amendment

by Danny Fisher

Please consider adding your name to the ONE Campaign’s petition to the U.S. Senate regarding the international affairs budget. The text of the petition reads:

    In the great American tradition of helping others help themselves, we, the undersigned, ask that the U.S. Senate pass the Durbin-Smith amendment to restore $2.6 billion to the international affairs budget.

This money is vital in the effort to “make poverty history.”

    Increasing the size of the international affairs budget is vital to increasing the amount the U.S. gives to poverty-focused development assistance. The international affairs budget funds all the proven solutions that we call for time and again: lifesaving AIDS medications, basic education, access to clean water, and many more programs like TASO [The AIDS Support Organization] helping people to work their way out of poverty.

Sign your name to the petition here.