It was an exciting Saturday night in Des Moines, Iowa this past weekend. Megan Berberich and I, members of ONE at Drake University, met with six presidential candidates at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition Fall Banquet/Presidential Forum. We had a chance to talk with Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann. With each conversation, we gave the candidate a ONE bracelet and asked them to support programs that promote agricultural sustainability.
Libby is back at it, delivering On the Record petitions to the Ron Paul and Rudy Giuliani campaigns in Iowa. Great work, Libby! Check back here often to find out the latest on the campaign and how you can get the presidential candidates to go on the record and commit to fighting extreme poverty and global disease.
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.
The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years. More than 11 million people, mostly nomadic pastoralists and farmers in south-central Somalia, north-eastern Kenya, and south-eastern Ethiopia, are severely lacking access to food.
2011 marks 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were documented. Take a closer look at the specific, achievable goals we must hit by 2015 to make this year the beginning of the end of AIDS.
As aid agencies warn more than 9 million people could be affected by a food crisis in East Africa, world leaders are failing to keep their 2009 promises to tackle the causes of chronic hunger and support farmers in the world's poorest countries.