Publication Date: 04/25/2003

Description: Press conference to announce plans for the first $1 million and the campaign’s next phase. Jane Roberts, 61, of California, and Lois Abraham, 68, of New Mexico, did not know each other in July 2002, but they had the same indignant reaction when the United States Administration rescinded $34 million in funding approved by Congress for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. They emailed friends urging them to send in $1 and contact other friends to “help right this terrible wrong”. Thus, the 34 Million Friends of UNFPA Campaign was born.