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Roger Thurow interviews a small farmer in Kenya for his book, “The Last Hunger Season”.  Travis Roberts, a member of the Faith team at ONE, recaps ONE’s recent conference call with agriculture expert and activist Roger Thurow. When the harvest runs out, before the next one begins, smallholder farmers in rural Kenya face “the hunger

Saving Mothers, Giving Life was launched in June 2012 with the goal of supporting countries where women are dying at alarming rates during pregnancy and childbirth to aggressively reduce maternal mortality. This post, which reflects on the program on its 1-year anniversary, was written by Celina Schocken, director of Saving Mothers, Giving Life. No woman should die

Photo credit: David Youmans For the past five years, a group of San Francisco engineers from Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA) have partnered with a Tanzanian community thousands of miles away to harness the sun’s energy to provide electricity to the town and meet the villagers’ basic human needs. Kelsey Gross, EWB-USA communications coordinator, shares their story.  Community

ONE staffers with White House Chief of Staff for the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs Yohannes Abraham outside the White House This post was written by Caitlin Hodes, a member of ONE’s Field team. She was one of the lucky ONE staffers to visit the White House last week. On Friday, a group of

This post was written by Luke Hanson, who works on ONE’s US Government Relations team. Check out his take on how we can fight malnutrition by supporting the Food Aid Reform Act.   Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee held an important hearing on H.R. 1983, the Food Aid Reform Act, which was introduced

I stumbled across this quote the other day by the great author, Jack London, and I cannot get it out of my head. I loved reading his books as a kid; fantasizing about adventurers he describes in the great North . . . dog sledging, gold mining, fighting for survival.

Evans Wadongo, founder and executive director of Sustainable Development for All Kenya and one of CNN’s top 10 heroes of 2010, explains why electricity is so important to African development. Like 68 percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa, Evans grew up without a dependable source of power. Check out how his personal experience growing up

This article was written by Peter Walters, the Director of Business Development & Partnerships for Two Degrees Food. Their mission is to bridge the gap between consumers in the US and hungry children all over the world.  Peter describes his first encounter experiencing the impact of Two Degrees Foods’ meals donations in Haiti.  For the past two-and-a-half years

Travis Roberts, a member of the Faith team at ONE, speaks on the responsibilities that followers of Christ have in developing food aid policies for foreign countries. Read his piece, then join ONE’s conference call with agriculture expert and activist Roger Thurow on Friday, June 7, at 2PM ET. One of the oldest and best known

Jim Yong Kim is president of the World Bank Group. He traveled to the Great Lakes region with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from May 22 to 24. Jim Kim and Ban Ki-moon greeting each other in Kinshasa at the very beginning of the trip. Photo credit: © Dominic Chavez/World Bank GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo

Some interesting news from our fellow ONE members in Germany. By René Engel, campaigns & special projects coordinator, ONE Germany For the past few weeks, the German Youth Ambassadors, a group of committed ONE activists based in Germany, have been raising awareness around “Ich schaue hin!”, a ONE campaign around the German elections. But two Youth Ambassadors, Miriam