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Grassroots campaign raises $1M for family planning.(Chicago Tribune)
Byline: Barbara Brotman
CHICAGO _ When Lois Abraham, a retired lawyer, contacted the United Nations Population Fund last August to say she was going to ask 34 million people to contribute $1 each to make up for $34 million in funding withheld by the Bush administration, she was almost surprised someone called her back.
"I thought, `It's pretty amazing that they didn't chalk me up as some nut on the telephone,'" she said.
In fact, the fund _ known as the UNFPA, an earlier acronym _ was contacted about the same time by Jane Roberts, a retired French teacher and tennis coach with the same quixotic idea.
On Thursday, the two women and UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid announced that the 34 Million Friends of UNFPA campaign had raised its first million dollars.
The campaign has collected $1,004,558 from more than 100,000 people, most of it in the form of $1 donations.
"We are elated at the response of the American people, " Roberts said at a news conference held at the UNFPA's New York headquarters. "Even though our government has chosen not to participate in the work of the UNFPA this year, we the people are participating."
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