Emily Walker

Some of these may be a slight exaggeration… 1. Bumper stickers trump road safety. 2. Your email inbox looks like this: 2. You prefer wristbands to bracelets. 4. LiveAid is your favorite concert of all time. (Bonus points if you were actually there) 5. You have 1 suit. And it’s for lobby visits. Photo Credit: ONE.org

The story behind our new favorite product – Bureh Belts!  When Bureh Co-Founder Dan Heyman needed a belt last minute, he didn’t expect it to inspire a fashion-forward, socially conscious movement. Launched this past fall, Bureh now inspires employment and entrepreneurship across Sierra Leone, an African country otherwise lacking in self-start-up and Westernized business opportunities.

In case you’ve forgotten… Mother’s Day is this Sunday. Why not use this year’s Mother’s Day as your big chance to honor mothers all around the world? Dozens of our partner organizations, including (RED), Every Mother Counts and Shot@Life, are mobilizing around the special day to raise awareness around women’s issues. Take a minute to

This past week we got the chance to chat with Kavita Gupta, an awesome ONE member from the University of Texas at El Paso and the ONE member of the month for April. She took a few minutes out of her incredibly busy schedule on campus to fill us in on her experience with the

Reuters: Madagascar President Rajoelina to Run in July Vote, Breaks Promise Not To – Madagascar’s president Andry Rajoelina will run in July’s election, an official list of presidential candidates showed on Friday, reneging on an agreement he would not do so. Rajoelina, who seized power in a coup in 2009, had said in January he

BBC: How can Africa move away from aid dependence? – Much of Africa relies on foreign aid, despite economic growth in parts of the continent significantly outpacing the global average. With many Western donors re-examining their foreign aid commitments as a result of economic downturns at home, changes are afoot and new alliances are being

NYTimes Magazine: Is It Crazy to Think We Can Eradicate Poverty? – At a news conference during the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in late April, Jim Yong Kim held up a piece of paper with the year “2030” scribbled on it in pen. “This is it,” said Kim,

Reuters: Africa rising? 2012 is continent’s worst year for violent conflict with 10mln displaced – With the outbreak of war in Mali and an upsurge in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 2012 was a violent year for Sub-Saharan Africa. The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) hit 10.4 million at the

AP: Report: 260,000 Died in Somali Famine – The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and under, according to a new report to be published this week that more than doubles previous death toll estimates, officials told The Associated Press. The aid community believes that tens of thousands

Financial Times: Africa bears burden and leads the charge – Effective national policies and control interventions have saved more than 1m African children from malaria death in the past decade. African progress against malaria has been made possible by a convergence of political commitment, shared investment and technical consensus on how to tackle the disease.

Reuters: Overseas development aid can help EU growth – Budget cuts and slowing growth have led European governments to consider cutting funding for overseas development, a move the EU’s development commissioner regards as short-sighted, arguing that Europe gains from spending abroad. Funds must be used effectively and aid carefully targeted, says Andris Piebalgs, the Latvian

Devex: US involvement is key to ending extreme poverty post-2015 – Engagement of the U.S development community and the leadership of the U.S government in the post-2015 process is necessary in order to end extreme poverty within two decades. Progress on achieving the current Millennium Development Goals gives leaders and citizens the confidence to dream