Jane Roberts is an American woman and retired teacher who responded to George W. Bush’s defunding of the United Nation’s Population Fund (UNFPA) by co-founding with Lois Abraham a nationwide fundraising campaign. The campaign, called 34 Million Friends of UNFPA, solicited $1 donations for humanitarian issues and was enormously successful.
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Chapter 8
Jane Roberts and Her 34 Million Friends. The section begins with George W. Bush’s withholding of $34...
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