Chris Daughtry

Daughtry, ONE Twin Cities and Minnesota Gather Momentum!

As Daughtry’s enthusiastic fans began arriving at Target Center on Wednesday evening, they were met by equally enthusiastic ONE Twin Cities volunteers.

Considering that Minnesotans traditionally volunteer at higher rates than the national average, ONE Twin Cities members were met with a receptive audience. After fairly brief and engaging conversations, concertgoers cheerfully pledged their support, and sported their new ONE wristbands!

Although each volunteer has a unique voice, unique words, unique story to tell, sharing Bono’s words captures the essence of their messages: “These goals—clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted, an end to extreme and senseless poverty—these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals, which this country supports. And they are more than that. They are the Beatitudes for a Globalised World.”

ONE volunteers are proud to have added another 231 members this week and thank their fellow Minnesotans for sharing in the vision!

–Kris Jernigan, ONE Twin Cities Member

ONE rocks with DAUGHTRY in Phoenix

Last week ONE volunteers in the Phoenix-Metro area met up at the DAUGHTRY concert to recruit new ONE members. Eight volunteers brought their energy and enthusiasm to encourage fans to make a stand against poverty and preventable disease. Over the course of about three hours, hundreds of DAUGHTRY fans from far and wide signed up over 365 new ONE members!

Volunteers gave out wristbands, stickers, pins, info booklets and flyers about an upcoming ONE workshop in Phoenix. DAUGHTRY fans were excited to sign up. In typical ONE fashion, those who joined came from all walks of life. Our first sign-up was a server from Saddle Ranch, and another was one of the arena security guards.

It’s no question that Arizonans are concerned about the moral obligations and national security implications of extreme poverty. Stable countries are able to meet the basic needs for their citizens to ensure international and cross border stability. Many people do not realize that 1.4 billion people around the world are not living under stable conditions. Last week at the DAUGHTRY concert, we added over 300 members to join ONE in an effort to make sure we do something about it. We will continue to make an impact on the hearts and minds of Arizonans at concerts, town halls, and around communities to make sure we grow the ONE membership base.

-Mathew Avrhami, Arizona ONE member

At the Daughtry concert in Fresno

I have been helping with the ONE campaign for a while now, but yesterday was my first time signing people up at a large scale event. What better way to start than at the Savemart Center in Fresno for a Daughtry concert?

ONE Fresno/Clovis took a group of 20 people, all passionate about ONE, to invite others to join. All of us, clipboards and wrist bands in hand, walked up and down the lines before the show, letting people know that their voices can make a difference. There were 6,500 people attending the concert and quite a few were very receptive to the mission of making poverty history.

Once the doors opened we set up a table inside and circled the arena spreading the word. All of us went out with the utmost dedication and enthusiasm rejoicing over every sheet we filled, and every wrist band placed on another person’s arm. In the end we signed up 674 people to join ONE in the fight against global poverty. I am proud to say that I was a part of something so spectacular and downright fun, and I can’t wait for the next opportunity to help!

-Danielle Minassian, ONE member Fresno/Clovis, CA

ONE’s Next Top T-shirt gets a shout out from Daughtry

Nov 20th, 2009 11:30 AM UTC
By Chris Scott

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Last night, if you happened to be watching Billboard.com’s live stream of the Daughtry concert, you might’ve seen one of the band members sporting a very familiar shirt.

Check it out:

An Evening Event for ONE

Just like at the Democratic convention last week, the RIAA will be hosting an event to celebrate ONE at the Republican convention tonight.

This time around the band DAUGHTRY will be playing and once again we’re expecting some influential members of the Party and media to attend.

We hope tonight’s event will build upon the work we’ve already done to bring the issue of global poverty to the forefront of this convention.

An Email From Chris

This morning Chris Daughtry of the band DAUGHTRY sent an email to all of our new Idol-watching members.

In it, he asked our new poverty-fighters to take their first action by urging the Senate to increase global AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis funding (by supporting the reauthorization of PEPFAR.)

See his email below. And sign the petition if you haven’t already.

Dear ONE Member,

My DAUGHTRY bandmates, Joey Barnes and Josh Steely, and I recently took a break from our tour to visit Kampala, Uganda. It was our first trip to Africa, and it was absolutely amazing.

It’s hard to put in words everything that we saw. We were inspired by the incredible spirit of the people we met—especially of the children—and struggled with the suffering that is part of the day-to-day life for so many.

But it’s not hard to take action. ONE is launching a petition campaign to tell our senators that we want them to support record increases in funding to treat and prevent the spread of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

Please sign ONE’s petition and ask your senators to join us in the fight against these deadly, but treatable diseases.

http://www.one.org/pepfarsenate

It’s pretty cool to know that the lifesaving antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) that were given out at the clinic we visited are paid for by a program that we are asking our elected officials in Washington to support.

That program is called the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief or PEPFAR and, since it was launched in 2004, it has saved millions of lives.

There are a lot of incredible success stories that come from American leadership against AIDS and I hope you’ll check out ONE.org to learn more. For now, I’m only going to throw one stat at you: 1.4 million. That’s the number of people who are on PEPFAR-funded ARVs today across the developing world.

But there is so much more we can do.

That’s why ONE is asking the Senate to increase investments in treatments and prevention strategies that work, from the $15 billion spent during the last five years to $50 billion for the next five.

The toughest moment for us on this trip came when we visited the home of an 18 year-old woman named Jacqueline, who is HIV positive and suffers from TB. Like so many people in Uganda, she is now taking antiretroviral drugs and medicine for her TB, but the side effects have left her unable to work.

This new funding expands the fight with programs that provide microloans and food aid for people in her dire situation.

Ask your senators show their support for American leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS by co-sponsoring this PEPFAR reauthorization.

http://www.one.org/pepfarsenate

If we can get this thing through the Senate, we’ll be that much closer to preventing millions of new cases of HIV/AIDS, giving AIDS widows and orphans a better future and stopping killers like malaria and TB.

Last night on Idol Gives Back, we played a song called What About Now. The title says it all. There is so much we can do now right now. That’s why it’s an honor for all of us in DAUGHTRY to be a part of ONE, this movement of millions of Americans all working together to save lives and change the world.

From all of us in DAUGHTRY.

Thanks,

Chris Daughtry, ONE Member

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