Prime and his team walked up a steep hill in Burundi to a neighboring town, their arms filled with stacks of ballots and pens.

It wasn’t election day, there were no bright campaign billboards, no radio spots telling Burundians to get out and vote.

And yet Prime’s team carried ballots door to door throughout the town. Grandmothers, grandchildren, peering at the bold checkmark strokes on tiny slips of paper.

This happened again and again, in different towns throughout Burundi — and in Nepal, India, Brazil, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Cameroon, Uganda, and Kenya. Every weekend since January 1st, 2015, teams of people have printed ballots, set up mobile Internet connections, and held voting drives in places and times that seemed quite random.

Teams of people who also seemed quite random — young and old, strangers who met over Facebook a few weeks before and old friends who have worked together for many years.

The same ballot, displaced across enormous distances, translated across disparate languages.

It doesn’t list names of politicians or legislative agendas — only 2 questions:

People aren’t voting policies per se but rather priorities — focus areas for Article 25 to take on in 2015.

Last October, we coordinated the first Global Day of Action for the Right to Health. Thousands of people in more in 65 countries organized marches and rallies to take a stand for their values. It was a declaration of both love and action — the beginning of a new era of global health advocacy. A time when people most affected by the global health crisis can finally have a say in what our movement should focus on, instead of high-level officials or steering committees that speak for the poor instead of letting the poor speak.

From January 1st until February 28th our Global Vote will be open and people will continue to walk up hills and down mountains, through fields and forests, to reach people that have been most marginalized from this movement, but have the most at stake: their lives.

The Global Vote is an open invitation to join a new kind of movement — a people’s movement — that can challenge social injustices at the root of the global health crisis.

A people’s movement is made of thousands of unique individual stories, fueling thousands of powerful voices.

Below are statements collected from Article 25 activists that give you glimpses into this story. They are our hopes, fears, and dreams. Our individuality and collectivity. Our past and our future.

We’re new to this work, but we’re ready for a long fight. And we aim to win.