Without access to electricity, no people or nation can progress rapidly....everything helps and counts, , including this effort below....
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From:
Matt Leffingwell, ONE.org <one-help@list.one.org>Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:42 PM
Subject: SIGN THE PETITION: Electrify Africa
To: Mobolaji Aluko <
alukome@gmail.com>
 | Make the Electrify Africa Act famous.
| There are lots of famous Bills. Bill Gates. Bill Murray. Bill Nye the Science Guy.
But right now, Mobolaji, I need your help making another bill famous: the Electrify Africa Act.
Just hours ago, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Ben Cardin (D-Md.) introduced the bill to help make sure millions of people (and hospitals, and schools and small businesses) in Africa get access to electricity for very the first time. The same bill was introduced in the House of Representatives last month.
We're making real progress.
Let's show our love for this bill and help get it passed. Add your name to our petition here - and help make this bill a household name.
 | | | The petition says:
Dear Congress:
Please pass the Electrify Africa Act, a bill that will help provide 50 million people with access to electricity for the first time - at no new cost to taxpayers.
Why do we need to make this bill famous? Because right now, Congress has lots of issues and lots of groups fighting for its attention. We need to make sure energy access for 50 million African citizens stays at the top of their to-do list.
So here's the plan: First - we need to get more than 100,000 signers on our petition (an impressive number that shows lots of support). We've set a goal to deliver that petition in-person to 300 offices (that's a LOT of offices). Having worked on Capitol Hill for 10 years, I can tell you that this number of names and this number of deliveries will definitely get noticed, get talked about, and help keep our issue on the radar screen.
Automatically add your name to our petition here - and help us hit our goal of 100,000 signers now.
Famous bills, here we come!
Matt Leffingwell
US Government Relations Director, ONE  | | | | SPREAD THE WORD |  |  | | | Our mailing address is:
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