We are here in Seattle right now, in what could be described as our first day off since the start of the U2 tour nearly four weeks ago, if we were really taking the day off. Instead, I'm using this time to finally update our blog and website to fill everyone in on exactly what we have been up to these last few crazy weeks...
Here is what has happened so far in an nutshell: Over the first 12 dates of this tour, we've gotten over 13,500 people to join the One Campaign (www.one.org) by signing the declaration and picking up literature and information from one of the two booths we have had and will have on each date of the U2 Vertigo tour this spring. Those 13,500 are people that have stopped by with us - thousands more have also texted their name to UNITE and joined the campaign via their cell phones. We've also distributed nearly 30,000 of the white ONE bands that show your support for the campaign to make poverty history. If you'd like one, again, stop by and see us at any U2 show this spring - they are a $1 donation and a great way to spread the word.
It's been exciting to take part in a campaign such as this, and even more exciting to see that our efforts are making an impact - we get to meet amazing people every single night that want to take the message of the ONE Campaign to everyone they know, taking stacks of our literature to pass out on their own, loading up on the white ONE band, ready to donate their time to us to make a difference.
The 'background music' we hear as we do our work each night hasn't been too bad either, we have gotten a chance to work with some awesome volunteers across the country that we can’t wait to talk about, and have already had our fair share of ‘on the road adventures and near disasters’ but more on all of that later...
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