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AAM Flower AAM and The One Campaign

AAM’s parent organization, the United Nations Association of the USA, has just joined The One Campaign, a national education and advocacy effort to rally Americans to fight global crises like AIDS, hunger and poverty. The One Campaign is named after its main goal: to push for the US government to earmark an additional one percent of the federal budget for the world’s poorest. This would increase US foreign aid assistance from 0.2% to 1.2%—the figure the United Nations has assigned as the share needed to “Make Poverty History.”

Over 700,000 individuals and organizations have already signed The One Declaration, which urges the government to increase its foreign aid spending by the next G8 meeting in July. These signatories include AAM's own Goodwill Ambassador, Heather Mills McCartney, as well as many others inlcuding Bono, Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, Cameron Diaz, Al Pacino, Alfre Woodward, Danny Glover, George Clooney, World Vision, Bread for the World, Oxfam America, Save the Children, DATA, CARE USA and the United Nations Millennium Campaign, to name just a few.

The goals of The One Campaign work hand-in-hand with the mission of Adopt-A-Minefield. Both campaigns address many of the same Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). For example, through clearance efforts and survivor assistance, Adopt-A-Minefield:

Saves the lives of countless men, women, and children;
Enables economic redevelopment by allowing post-conflict communities to reclaim; their land for farming, reducing poverty and hunger;
Promotes educational opportunities by making it possible for schools to reopen;
Ensures environmental sustainability by removing the hazardous pollution of landmines and UXO; and
Cultivates a global partnership for development by working with other organizations to make the best use of cleared land.

Learning to Walk Again (Wendell Phillips)

Supporting The One Campaign is an additional way for Americans to take action and to support the goals of AAM. Just as we are inviting The One Campaign supporters to join AAM’s efforts, we would also encourage you to visit The One Campaign website at www.one.org and to sign The One Declaration. Engage in advocacy for a better tomorrow, while simultaneously acting now to secure a better today.

“Increasing foreign aid increases the amount of money governments put toward mine action. Clearing minefields and survivor assistance address the same Millennium Development Goals that are being addressed by The One Campaign—poverty reduction; child health and survival; and economic development. Achieving those goals is in everyone’s hands. To make a difference today, right now, sign The One Declaration and join the efforts of Adopt-A-Minefield.”

—AAM Goodwill Ambassador Heather Mills McCartney


	Adopt-A-Minefield is a program of the United Nations Association of the USA in partnership with the Better World Fund, the United Nations, the U.S. State Department and other leading mine action organizations around the world.