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About ONE

ONE is an advocacy and campaigning organization supported by more than 2 million people and growing, from all walks of life all around the world, uniting as one against extreme poverty.

ONE’s promise to you if you sign here: your voice will be echoed and amplified by millions of others through ONE’s coordinated campaigns, will be heard by world leaders and will encourage them to adopt policies to save millions of lives.

Many great organizations have already been working for years to achieve great results in the fight against extreme poverty. These successes inspire us to do more:-

• With the help of people like you who have already joined together and taken action, communities in Africa have been able to enroll 29 million more children into primary school in the last 5 years. Thank you. This works! Now let’s help the 30 million kids in Africa who still don’t go to school, and the 40 million more around the world who also don’t get to go.
• With the help of people like you who have joined together and taken action, Africans have been able to put over 2 million more people living with AIDS on lifesaving medication in the last 4 years. Thank you. This works! Now let’s help get the medicine to the 5 million Africans who still need it.
• With the help of people like you who have joined together and taken action, increased resources now mean three million fewer children around the world die each year from diseases like malaria, measles or from malnutrition. Thank you. This works! Now lets help stop the unnecessary deaths of the 9 million children who still die from afflictions of extreme poverty each year.

At ONE we aren’t afraid of flash, but we prefer the hard facts about what works and what doesn’t. We fight for debt cancellation and for increased and more effective aid to fight extreme poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and diseases like AIDS. We also promote trade reform so that people in the poorest countries can earn their way out of extreme poverty. And we promote democracy, accountability and transparency in the poorest countries so that their citizens are in the driving seat of development, fighting corruption and holding their governments accountable. We campaign for justice, equality and long term solutions to extreme poverty.

Nelson Mandela called upon us all to be “the great generation to make poverty history”, and we still can be that great generation – if we work together as one.

Please join ONE. Because each ONE of us can make a difference. Because by raising our voices together as ONE, we can change the world