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Election focuses on ONE issue

Charleston.net, October 14, 2007

Marie-Louise Ramsdale, a political consultant also working with the ONE campaign, said it soon hopes to involve middle and high school students in activities to highlight ONE's top goals: reducing global poverty; fighting diseases such as AIDS and malaria; and improving education, particularly for young girls in the developing world.

Like the presidential candidates, the ONE campaign is concentrating on the four early primary states: Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. It is financed by a $30 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The ONE campaign will try to raise its profile Wednesday with events nationwide to raise awareness on global poverty.

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