Progress – Thanks to you
Thanks to the action you took on fighting famine in the Horn of Africa, world leaders are responding to public pressure and coming forward to help stop the starving.
220,000 supporters who signed our petition calling on governments to provide full, immediate funding to the food crisis. Since our campaign launch two months ago, an additional $700 million has been committed for the crisis, and a further $970m promised, including increases from Australia, Germany, the European Union, African countries and others.
This past Saturday, our CEO addressed the UN Emergency Summit and submitted the petition you signed. “While drought may be act of nature, famine is not. More than 200,000 of our members have added their voices to a global petition calling for world leaders to act now,” he declared.
(ONE CEO Michael Elliott addresses the United Nations meeting)
But we cannot lose momentum. ONE will continue to campaign on this vital issue. We’ll increase our pressure on leaders of wealthy countries when they meet at the G-20 Summit, demanding that they keep their promises to ensure people across Africa are hungry no more. Watch out for this new phase of the campaign being launched next week with some high profile supporters.
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28/09/2011 at 11:20 am
I feel and want to do more to help. However ‘umuntu ungumuntu ngabantu’, i.e a person is what he/she is because of the neighbour, community & the world. I am proud to give back to a fellow human being.
28/09/2011 at 12:20 pm
I am from Pakistan . i did MA Social work . i want to do job in ONE International NGO . please tell me how i can apply . how to send cv to ONE International NGO .
28/09/2011 at 12:38 pm
I am happy to hear that the immediate crisis of famine is finally being addressed. However, we mustn’t ignore the fact that while drought may be ‘a natural disaster’, the increasingly longer dry spells in the Horn of Africa are a result of climate change – a man-made disaster.
Until the governments of the Western World seriously addresses global warming, we will only see more extreme weather and dire human crises. Immediate aid for ongoing disasters will always be necessary, but it is time we start investing in long term solutions to prevent disasters from happening in the first place.
As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
28/09/2011 at 3:25 pm
Es importante determinar como una medida de mediano y largo plazo en la región, como se pretende resolver el aseguramiento y suministro de servicios básicos a la población: agua potable y saneamiento. Pero sobre todo es determinante que el pueblo africano pueda alcanzar su bienestar por medios propios y participe en estas acciones. El apoyo del primer mundo es necesario en este momento, pero no puede permancer como el único para asegurar que estos desastres locales no se repitan.
28/09/2011 at 3:44 pm
together we are a force:)
We continue like this …
great work
28/09/2011 at 7:07 pm
I thank one for their efforts by going to the fatigue of humanitarian issues and I hope a gathering of world leaders to hear our voices so I hope to address the issues that stretched from the human hunger, poverty and wars to combine our voices to be one voice …. Yes to human … Yes, of humanity
28/09/2011 at 7:55 pm
I am happy to be apart of this initiative, however I feel like I need to do more. I would like to thank One for making this happen and keeping me updated with the progress.
28/09/2011 at 8:17 pm
Just a part of an iniciative against the selfish capitalism that is killing people. We have the power and the concience , too bad that we have no money and the ones who does dont have concience
28/09/2011 at 11:25 pm
G20 next call! We make our voice heard
Thanking those who work for us, a greeting to all!
28/09/2011 at 11:32 pm
Let’s hope that more people around the world add their voices to ONE. I don’t want my children to live in a dispassionate, ignorant world where a blind eye is turned to fellow human beings dying of starvation.
There are NO EXCUSES. We must act both collectively and individually – assessing our own personal circumstances and doing more to support charities such as Unicef and Oxfam. Here’s to a fairer world for all.
29/09/2011 at 1:33 am
I have the feeling that together we are more and we can achieve a lot of things. I’m very proud and happy for all the work that One did, do & will continue to do. Be a part of this make me feel grateful and joy. Thank you so much One.
29/09/2011 at 1:37 am
Be deeply grateful only to the Supreme ONE for all desires granted. ONE must be rich to live a really complete and successful life. The object of all life is development and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.
Man’s right to life means his right to have the FREE and unrestricted use of all things necessary for his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment. To live fully in soul, man must have LOVE; and LOVE is denied expression by poverty.
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created. In order to do this man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind and form a clear mental picture of the things wanted and do with faith and purpose all that can be done each day, doing each separate thing in an efficient manner.
–Science of getting rich, by Wallace D Wattles.
29/09/2011 at 2:53 am
I am very very happy to be apart of this ONE, however I feel like I need to do more something, I would like to thank One for making this happen and keeping me updating with the progress.I have the feeling that together we are more and we can achieve a lot of things. I’m very proud and happy for all the work that One did, do & will continue to do. Be a part of this make me feel grateful and joy and enjoy. Thank you So much ONE.
29/09/2011 at 5:32 am
Its a great news for us….& thank ONE team for updating…..
29/09/2011 at 12:55 pm
i am happy to be apart of this initiative, however I feel like I need to do more. I would like to thank One for making this happen and keeping me updated with the progress.
Thank you So much ONE. Pershendetje nga Kosova
29/09/2011 at 5:16 pm
I join with everyone in celebrating the progress made and look forward to overcoming the challenges to come. When you feed another, you feed the human spirit. Let’s all pledge to take action to feed the world.
29/09/2011 at 7:24 pm
Proud to be part of this. Ashamed don’t have done more. Hopefull to do better.
Go ahead. Stand up for their right.
Antonella
30/09/2011 at 4:05 am
Thank you One for this initiative and make me part of it. Please keep me updated.
Go ahead, Carmen from Argentina.
30/09/2011 at 3:17 pm
Thank you for the update, as always.
30/09/2011 at 4:29 pm
HAY QUE DETERMINAR UNA MEDIDA QUE INCLUYA A TODAS LAS PROBLEMATICAS DE LA REGION, ESTO DEBE DE REALIZARSE DE UNA MANERA TAL QUE DE UNA SOLUCION DE FONDO Y NO DE FORMA,(QUE ES LO QUE SE VIENE TRATANDO DE RALIZAR) YA QUE LAS POLITICAS PLANTEADAS SOLO ABASTECEN LAS NECESIDADES PRIMARIAS QUEDANDO FUERA DEL SISTEMA LAS SECUNARIAS QUE EN REALIDAD SON LAS QUE PERDURAN Y CON EL TIEMPO SE HACEN NOTAR MAS, GENERANDO UNA NUEVA PROBLEMATICA.
LO MAS IMPORTANTE ES QUE EL PUEBLO AFRICANO DEBE DE AYUDARSE A SI MISMO Y A LOS QUE QUEREMOS AYUDAR PARA SI PODER ENFOCAR MEJOR LA AYUDA ENVIADA.
LO IMPORTANTE ES NO CLAUDICAR EN LA LUCHA POR TRATAR DE ALCANZAR EL OBJETIVO FIJADO.
01/10/2011 at 7:38 am
I feel interested, eventhough much busy as an official, in reading ONE mails being sent to me. Its focus on fundamental needs fulfillment for the destitute in AFRICA is really praiseworthy. Hope, ONE should turn their eyes to ASIA as well in fighting against poverty.
Wishing ONE brightening….
01/10/2011 at 10:46 am
Muito obrigada por fazer parte deste movimento e por me manter informada. Gostaria de poder fazer muito mais, muita força ONE, por marcar a diferença e procurar transformar o mundo num sítio melhor.Incrível tudo isto existir em pleno sec XXI
01/10/2011 at 3:17 pm
I’m glad to belong in this team. ONE is enough to make the difference.
01/10/2011 at 5:48 pm
Hello,
The founds must be used to buy tools, make infrastructure (irrigation, roads etc), buy seeds…
This people must be helped in such am manner to make them able to grow their own food…
“Don’t always supply fish, Give them a fishing line…”
Marius, Romania
02/10/2011 at 3:02 am
We must go full steam for the G20!
03/10/2011 at 11:37 am
am proud to be part of ONE. we are people because of people ,so lets join hands to help each other because if people can die of hunger will you be happy to live alone? No.therefore lets work together because at the end of the DAY we are called people no matter rich,poor or previllaged.
TOGETHER WE CAN!!
04/10/2011 at 4:53 am
In my mind ,we can calculate our registrant ,and make up to a rescue team. we collect goods and materials from our own country .
04/10/2011 at 4:51 pm
Well done on all you have achieved so far. Lets keep going ! Its not time to stop now ! As long as people continue to die of hunger in our world, there is work for us to do. This time there really has to be change and the world has to listen. We are with you. Use us.
04/10/2011 at 11:41 pm
I’m so happy to hear that finally this famine crisis is being taken seriously by UN.
I’m very proud to be part of this initiative so please keep me updated.
Together we are ONE.
06/10/2011 at 1:56 pm
I have just put my 22 month old daughther down for her nap with a nice bottle of milk after her bowl of pasta safely knowing,as we say in Ireland,she has been fed and watered. To me all mothers should know this feeling not which child do i feed,in other words, which child lives and which one dies. I am very greatful to be part of this organisation and am only too willing to spread its word and wont give up. Tell everyone you can, dont sit and do nothing or leave it to someone else.