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Can a decision made in Washington DC change a child's life in Africa? It can and will, as our Congress considers how we best spend resources and balance priorities for the next year, both at home and around the world.

As ONE, we can encourage our Congress to represent our values and help people to help themselves, whether they're in New Orleans or Mozambique. As our government responds to the critical needs in the Gulf Coast, we can also make a difference in millions of lives around the world. This year, Congress will determine how we respond to one of the greatest opportunities of our lifetimes - keeping momentum going in the fight against extreme poverty and global AIDS.

We're going to need your voice in the coming weeks. Today, will you ask a friend to join ONE and help make poverty history?

Together, we're going to ask Congress to reach across political divides and make decisions that will keep life-saving AIDS, TB and malaria initiatives running around the world. Remember, AIDS kills 8,500 people every day, tuberculosis kills 5,000 and malaria kills over 3,000 in Africa alone - every day.

It's like having ONE dollar in your hand - and deciding how to best spend each and every penny so that you can help the most people. Currently, we spend far less than even one penny of every dollar of our federal budget on fighting global poverty and disease. This year, important decisions will be made about each of those pennies, pennies that have the power to put books in schools, help villages dig wells and bring medicine to the world's poorest people.

Stay tuned. Over the coming weeks, we will have a real opportunity to help millions of the world's poorest people, and it's going to be more important than ever that you make your voice heard as ONE.