The location of the event is Room #202 in City Hall (Mayor's reception room).
The event begins at 10:30am. Please plan to arrive between 10-10:15 so that we can make our presence as visible as possible.
Full info below:
Mayor Nutter to Declare Philadelphia a ‘ONE City’
ONE, launched in Philadelphia in 2004, joins again with city in fight against global poverty, disease.
Philadelphia, Penn.—On August 25, Mayor Michael A. Nutter will join local members of the global anti-poverty organization ONE to declare Philadelphia a ‘ONE City’ against global poverty and disease. Cofounded by Bono and other campaigners, ONE was launched five years ago in Philadelphia in an event at Liberty Mall.
With Mayor Nutter signing the ONE City proclamation, Philadelphia joins more than 130 cities across the nation working to mobilize public support behind initiatives to fight poverty, combat diseases like AIDS and malaria, put children in school and increase opportunity for those living in extreme poverty around the world.
The ONE City event comes five years after ONE was launched in May 2004 at a kick-off event and rally in Philadelphia. The event, held in front of Independence Hall, was attended by faith leaders, heads of leading anti-poverty organizations, African citizens and activists, celebrities and policymakers from the right and left.
Five years on, ONE is a grassroots advocacy organization with more than two million members, including thousands in Pennsylvania. ONE works closely with policy experts, African leaders, and anti-poverty activists to support initiatives that are saving lives and helping the world’s poor secure access to basic needs in order to make a better life for themselves and their children.
What: Philadelphia declared a ‘ONE City’
Who: Mayor Michael A. Nutter
Deesha Dyer, Philadelphia ONE Leader
Pastor Matt Staniz, Temple Lutheran Church, Havertown
Where: Philadelphia City Hall Room #202 (Mayor’s Reception Room)
When: 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Contact: Brian Sweeney, ONE Field Organizer, brian.sweeney@one.org , 717.644.3034
In just the last several years, America’s global poverty-fighting and disease-fighting efforts have delivered historic results. U.S. support for programs like PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria—initiatives backed strongly by ONE and its membership—have contributed to putting nearly 4 million people living with HIV/AIDS globally on lifesaving medicines, up from just 50,000 people in 2002. Millions more are surviving malaria thanks to the delivery of bed nets and medicines by U.S. and other donors. Some 34 million more children living in sub-Saharan African countries have gone to school for the first time, largely thanks to simple debt relief.
ONE is a global advocacy and campaigning organization backed by more than 2 million people from around the world dedicated to fighting extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. For more information please visit http://www.one.org/
Monica Staniz
