The phone-banking effort we completed in Pennsylvania last month made a difference in Pennsylvania. Although our numbers in Pennsylvania was not significant enough to deliver a victory to Senator Obama, our collective efforts to collect a database of Ethiopian-American phone numbers did not go unnoticed. We were able to reach a multitude of Ethiopian-American voters in Pennsylvania, our efforts contributed to galvanizing the Ethiopian-American community as they voted overwhelmingly for Senator Obama.
Now that we have concluded our effort in Pennsylvania, it is time to duplicate the effort in Indiana. There is a large Ethiopian community in Indiana, so we will conduct another phone-banking effort. Because the Indiana primary is less than two weeks away, we have to quickly collect the phone numbers and start making phone calls by Monday, April 29th.
Please email me at [email protected] if you plan on volunteering to collect phone numbers and contact information from the Ethiopian community in the state of Indiana.
I cannot tell you how heartening it is to hear an Ethiopian-American on the other end of the line and how happy they are to be called by a fellow Ethiopian. It is a special feeling for both parties involved. Please forward this to your friends and family, we have a tight knit and committed core of E4O volunteers, but we need to expand our numbers in order to be more effective at what we are doing.