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Bono and the Pope

U2 lead singer and humanitarian activist Bono has launched a $30 million effort to turn global poverty into a 2008 campaign issue. One Vote '08 held its kickoff event in Washington yesterday.

One Vote '08 has five achievable goals:

1 Save 15,000 lives a day by fighting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, three of the world's most devastating diseases.
2 Prevent 5.4 million young children from dying each year from poverty-related illnesses and 400,000 women from dying in childbirth each year.
3 Provide free access to primary education for 77 million out-of-school children with a special emphasis on girls.
4 Improve the living conditions of vulnerable populations by, for example, providing access to clean water for 450 million people and basic sanitation to more than 700 million people.
5 Reduce by half the number of people in the world who suffer from hunger, resulting in 300 million "fewer" hungry people each year.

Please volunteer or donate to this worthy cause, whatever your political party.

Go to the One Vote '08 website.