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POWER IN MUSIC: Bono
Lead singer of U2
By: Nicole Bruno & Mimi Makabi

to fight H.I.V. and AIDS in Rwanda. Bono explains, "You know what's amazing? Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty."
 
In 2004, DATA and 10 other leading anti-poverty organizations joined together to create  ONE, a new, non-partisan campaign to mobilize a movement of Americans from all walks of life in the fight against extreme poverty and preventable global disease. By 2008, after working closely together, both organizations decided to join their complementary strengths into a united global anti-poverty organization, and then formally merged under the name ONE. “To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”

"The attention of the world might sometimes be elsewhere, but history is watching. It's taking notes. And it's going to hold us to account, each of us." Bono

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