This piece, by 1,000 Days Executive Director Lucy Martinez Sullivan, was originally posted on Future Fortified’s blog. In my job as the executive director of 1,000 Days, I am an advocate for mothers and children around the world. But it wasn’t until I learned I was pregnant last year and then finally welcomed my first
Top photo credit: fashionlovespeople ONE Mom community blogger Elizabeth Atalay of Documama.org shares some creative ways on how to wear the Genet scarf, our exclusive Mother’s Day scarf made by fashionABLE. When my ONE fashionABLE Genet scarf arrived in the mail the other day (happy Mother’s Day to me!), I knew exactly who to turn
A few weeks ago, a few House Republicans introduced H.R. 1613, the innocuous sounding “Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement Act”. A little over four pages long, H.R. 1613 is primarily designed to provide Congressional approval to a US-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement (TBA) signed by both governments over a year ago.
For chef and ONE member Marcus Samuelsson, good nutrition is not something reserved for those who happen to be born in a certain part of the world. I was born in Ethiopia. But at the age of two, my mother died of tuberculosis. That’s when I was blessed with my first lucky break: I was
Adrianna Logalbo, campaign head of Future Fortified, witnesses a 26-year-old mother of six commit her family to good nutrition. Last December, I traveled to Kenya on behalf of the Future Fortified campaign, where I met several women who are nourishing the next generation. It was there I was reminded of the power that women everywhere have
Almost every week on the Frontline Health Workers Coalition’s blog, someone from our 30 member organizations tells another story illustrating the inspiring and tremendous impact frontline health workers are making in saving and improving lives around the world. What might not be as well known is that, according to USAID, 0.0000087 percent of the US budget in 2011 went to global health programs, including programs that help thousands of frontline health workers save millions of lives.
In partnership with One Acre Fund, we are following Anne, a smallholder farmer from Kenya, for a whole growing season. From planting to harvest, we will check in every month to see what life is really like for a farmer in rural Kenya. Catch up with Part 1. Written by Hailey Tucker. Anne at home in
More than half a million children still die from malaria every year. Any day a child dies of a preventable disease is not a happy day, but those working to fight malaria – and that number includes activists like you and I – should give ourselves a pat on the back for being a part of the political action that has increased funding for the work on the ground, enabling a 25 percent drop in malaria deaths globally since 2000. HBO’s Mary and Martha shows the reality of both the sickness and the activism involved.
San Diego, California is famous for its perfect weather and crystal blue surf. ONE volunteer Mama Marlaine (Marlaine Paulsen Cover) makes media headines each spring doing something no San Diegan ever did previously – she and fellow moms and daughters hit the waves wearing dresses for their annual Mother’s Day Fancy Dress Swims.
Haiti is at the forefront of one of the most important developments in global health. On Saturday, this beautiful country – devastated by earthquake and hurricane – will become the 14th GAVI-supported country to introduce lifesaving rotavirus vaccines into its national immunization program joining four other GAVI countries in the Americas region: Bolivia, Guyana, Honduras and Nicaragua. The introduction of rotavirus vaccine is a tangible symbol of Haiti’s effort to rebuild and protect its children. It is a remarkable achievement just three years after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake demolished the Ministry of Health, destroyed or seriously damaged 30 hospitals, and took the lives of 230,000 people, including some 300 health workers.
I wanted to take some time to write to you about something close to my heart – food. But it’s not just close to my heart, it’s at the heart of every family and has a prime place in our homes. It can bind us to the best bits of life. But right now we
Peace Corps Health Volunteer Alisa Langfords shares a personal story on malaria – which she learned about the hard way – for World Malaria Day, which takes places this week on April 25. Justice balances his little legs off the edge of my lap and giggles, seemingly unwitting of what happened last week – that his
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