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Online Petitions
1. Tell Congress: Unravel the red tape, for the kids
Help end the bureaucratic standoff preventing the National Commission on Children and Disasters from doing its important work
Congress created the National Commission on Children and Disasters to find out what went wrong during the response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and how our government can do a better job helping kids affected by the next disaster. But their important work is stalled because of a funding technicality. Please contact your members of Congress today and urge them to untangle the bureaucratic knot holding up the Commission on Children and Disasters.”
2. Urge Congress to restore funding to Section 4
Recently, the administration eliminated Section 4 from its FY2009 budget request to Congress. The HUD Section 4 Capacity Building and Affordable Housing program gives communities nationwide the tools to become more desirable and productive places to call home. Habitat has already built more than 9,000 homes with the support of Section 4 grants, but without this funding, future Habitat homes are in jeopardy.”
3. Give women the right to own a home
Women do 66 percent of the world’s work, but own less than 15 percent of the world’s property. In many places, women cannot own or inherit property. This makes women more vulnerable to poverty, violence and HIV/AIDS.
If we are going to make progress toward ending global poverty, we have to start with women. If passed by Congress, the bipartisan Global Resources and Opportunity for Women to Thrive Act would be a giant step forward. As this critical legislation moves through Congress, please voice your support!”
4. Help Habitat for Humanity keep its AmeriCorps members
For more than a decade, volunteers from the Corporation for National and Community Service have partnered with Habitat for Humanity and its affiliates to build affordable housing for thousands of partner families. In the last year alone, they helped Habitat build approximately 1,900 homes.
Now those programs face steep funding cuts in the president’s 2009 budget proposal to Congress. Habitat and its affiliates rely on these programs for volunteers and financial assistance to help us serve families in need.”
5. Ask your members of Congress to support the Global Poverty Act
Ask your member of Congress to co-sponsor the Global Poverty Act (HR 1302). This important legislation would require the U.S. government to implement a poverty reduction strategy and to report to Congress on its progress on an annual basis. By asking Congress to co-sponsor the Global Poverty Act, you will be taking a crucial step to help improve the lives of the 1 billion people who live in slum conditions worldwide.”
