Our hard-won development dollars can be dramatically more effective. It's time to upgrade aid.

Thanks to a bipartisan bill now in the Senate, we can take an important first step towards better, smarter U.S. foreign aid. A delay on committee deliberation gives us a new chance to mobilize desperately-needed public support and push this bill through.

One click is all it takes to tell your senators upgrading aid is a priority for you:

http://www.one.org/us/upgradeaid/index.html?&rc=upgradeaidfb&t=UPGRADEAID

Here's what you're telling your Senator when you click the link:

"Please strengthen U.S. foreign aid by cosponsoring the bipartisan Foreign Assistance Revitalization and Accountability Act of 2009 (S. 1524).

S. 1524 gives the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) the tools and people it needs to keep fighting hunger and poverty around the world, and do it better. And it gives us new mechanisms to know what works and doesn't, so we can make sure our investments in the lives of poor people around the globe are making a difference.

Ultimately, that means better USAID programs to help the most difficult-to-reach farmers grow crops and feed more of Africa's 265 million hungry people. It means better support for treating 6.6 billion liters of water in Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, and Zambia. And it also means better immunization, polio eradication, nutrition, diarrhea and pneumonia care, and maternal and neonatal healthcare through USAID programs across the African continent."

With S. 1524, we can make our development assistance better and smarter so it helps more Africans lift themselves out of poverty. Just click this link to tell your senators to cosponsor this bill:

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http://www.one.org/us/upgradeaid/index.html?&rc=upgradeaidfb&t=UPGRADEAID

Thank You!

Source: ONE.org