Kimberly Hunter

Kim Hunter, ONE’s former US press secretary, set off in January on a year-long trip to see the world and chronicle some of the hard-working people and projects that are on the front lines of fighting poverty in the developing world. In this post, Kim spent the day with Save the Children Vietnam’s Project NAM

Wondering how great an impact agricultural programs can have on the world’s poorest people? Take a look at Donata Kuchawo’s story to find out more, and make sure there are many more stories like hers by urging Congress to fully fund Feed the Future. Another report from Malawi. On Sunday, we had an amazing visit

Getting Smart on Aid: There are also deeper questions about how best to make an impact — even about how to do something as simple as get more kids in school. Greg Mortenson and a number of other education organizations mostly build schools. That seems pretty straightforward. If we want to get more kids in

This past weekend, ONE’s No Child Born with HIV Campaign was featured in a USA Today Special Report on Investing in Women and Girls (PDF) in conjunction with International Women’s Day today. The report was distributed in 1.5 million hard copies of USA Today and will be available at this week’s CARE Conference in Washington

During a listening and learning trip to Malawi, ONE staffer Kim Hunter witnessed the power of US partnership projects on smallholder farmers in Africa. As we learn more about the important role of agriculture in fighting hunger, a key challenge facing many smallholder farmers is earning enough money to go beyond feeding their families and

Another report from Malawi. On Sunday, we had an amazing visit to the Chitsanzo Milk Bulking Group (MBG), a USAID-funded, public-private partnership project with Land O’Lakes and General Mills that supports local dairy farmers in the rural area of Dedze. In 2007, Land O’Lakes started working with the farmers to provide an initial investment of

Today, we made some site visits in Blantyre, Malawi to learn more about the country’s efforts in education, the challenges facing small-to-medium size businesses and a public-private partnership that produces a nutritious peanut butter paste to combat malnutrition. We began our day at Nsoni Primary and Secondary Schools. The secondary school was recently renovated as

Yesterday, ONE hosted a panel discussion at the World Food Prize Symposium about the crucial role that everyday Americans can play in promoting efforts to support poor farmers and help them break free from the cycle of poverty. The session was insightful and showed just how vital our voices are in making sure that our elected

We just touched down in Des Moines, Iowa to take part in the World Food Prize Symposium this week. Driving from the airport, I’m struck by the important role of agriculture in Iowa, which is why holding a summit on fighting hunger and improving our food security here is so appropriate.  Later today, we’ll head

Every year, approximately 350,000 mothers die from complications during child birth and 8.8 million children die before their fifth birthday. We are desperately off track to achieving the Millennium Development Goals on child and maternal health and expectations were high for the G8 summit to deliver results. Yesterday, the G8 announced the Muskoka Initiative on

Sheila Nix, our U.S. Executive Director, was featured on CBC’s The National, the Canadian equivalent of NBC Nightly News, as part of segment on maternal and child health. Sheila talked about her trip to Ghana and Sierra Leone, and how simple interventions can prevent the mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDs giving children a whole new lease

The ONE team has arrived in Canada and is already hard at work raising awareness in the fight against extreme poverty with Toronto’s Mayor David Miller. We’re in town for the G8 and G20 Summits where maternal and child health and accountability are on the agenda. For several months, ONE has been actively engaging Canadian