Great news from London regarding 1GOAL, ONE’s partner for the football World Cup.
South African President Zuma met today with UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and announced that South Africa will host a global summit on education during the World Cup this summer. Aaron Mokoena, South Africa’s football captain and 1GOAL Ambassador, who met with President Zuma said “I am delighted that the Government of South Africa had decided to host a summit for education for all children” and Her Majesty Queen Rania (Co-Founder and Global Co-Chair of 1GOAL) congratulated President Zuma and Prime Minister Brown on “their vision and commitment to make global education the greatest goal of the South Africa World Cup 2010.”
This announcement gives real political momentum to the campaign to ensure all children go to school, which would be an incredible legacy of the World Cup.
For more information on the campaign visit the 1GOAL website
The month of February means one thing in Italy – The San Remo Music Festival. The whole country stops what they are doing and comes together as one to watch the five day festival. What better opportunity for ONE to get its messages out and hopefully to influence the Italian government as chair of the G8 this year? With great help from some well-known Italian and International artists, we put together a bespoke Italian film for the festival – ONE Voice.
ONE Voice features some of the world’s finest actors, musicians and sports personalities talking about the campaign in Italian. Artists include: Ben Affleck, Antonio Banderas, Andrea Bocelli, Bono, Penelope Cruz, Matt Damon, Bob Geldof, Thierry Henry, Idris, Jovanotti, Laura Pausini and Giuliano Sangiorgi.
We were lucky enough to get the film aired live last night at the Festival and on RAI Uno (a major mainstream Italian TV channel). I’ve just found out that it was watched by more than 11 million people. So all the hard work everyone put in to make this a success has been worth it and hopefully more people will watch it going forward and therefore get involved in the fight against poverty.
ONE is campaigning to ensure that the Congressional budget does not cut foreign assistance programs like Feed the Future that help people break the cycle of poverty and hunger.
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