34 Million Friends

In  a July 2002 editorial  published in the San Bernadino  California Sun Jane Roberts wrote, " A week has passed since the Bush Administration decided to deny the $34 million dollars  voted by Congress for the United Nations Populations Fund. Ho Hum, this is vacation time. Columnists have written about it and newspapers have printed editorials of lament. Ho Hum. More women die in childbirth in a few days than terrorism kills people in a year. Ho Hum. Some little girl is having her genitals cut with a cactus needle. Ho Hum just a cultural thing. As an exercise in outraged democracy, would 34 million of my fellow citizens please join me by sending one dollar each to the US Committee for UNPA?"

That idea was the genesis of 34 Million Friends  when Jane and co-founder Lois Abraham - separately and not knowing one another had the same idea-- a grassroots effort, one dollar at a time to get 34 million American women to give one dollar each  to help provide reproductive health services to disadvantaged women around the world. To date their efforts have raised over $4 million dollars without the benefit of social media marketing or social media networks.

We, all of us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, MySpace, YouTube, Xtranormal,Digg, Hi5, DailyMotion........have the power within our networks to make the mission of two women a reality achieved. Go to www.34millionfriends.org to learn more.