Lorraine Chu

This post is part of “Digital Africa”, a mini blog series on the programs and products using technology and innovation help fight poverty. A man food shopping at his local market walks up to the counter to pay. But instead of taking out his wallet, he whips out his phone, and within seconds his groceries

This post is part of “Digital Africa”, a mini blog series on the programs and products using technology and innovation help fight poverty. Brian Herbert, a director and lead developer at Ushahidi, a tech company at the forefront of the crisis-mapping movement, talks to ONE about citizen journalism and its impact on global disasters. Crowdsourcing

GOOD Magazine just released a cool infographic on preventing polio. While those of us fortunate to live in developed countries live without the fear of polio and tend to think of it as a thing of the past, polio is still very much alive in about a dozen countries today. This crippling and oftentimes deadly

With our recently launched vaccines petition to save 4 million children’s lives in 5 years, there’s certainly been a great deal of immunization talk around the ONE office. Well, here’s some more. Get excited, people, because it’s officially Immunization Week around the world right now! Okay, so that may not be the most thrilling sentence

This post is part of “Digital Africa”, a mini blog series on the programs and products using technology and innovation help fight poverty. Work is currently underway for a new cable that will boost internet access in Africa. With four times more data, West Africa Cable System (WACS) will boost bandwidth for the world’s least-connected

Has Sesame Street taken over Africa? Well, not quite. We previously introduced you to Nigerian program “Sesame Square,” which included an HIV-positive character named Kami. Now, a similar show has invaded millions of televisions in homes across Ethiopia, entertaining children while simultaneously educating them on things like sanitation and hygiene as well as the importance

Social activist Sanjit “Bunker” Roy is doing big things in India. He founded Barefoot College, an organization based in small village Tilonia, which aims to assist the estimated 41 percent of the Indian population living below the international poverty line. Local people are taught through peer-to-peer learning, passing on traditional skills and knowledge rather than

Today is Friday, and while that’s certainly great news on its own, April 22 also officially marks Earth Day. For more than 40 years, Earth Day has served as a day to be more conscientious of how we treat our planet. This year’s theme is “A Billion Acts of Green,” and focuses on conservation and

All you Twitter fiends get ready (we know you’re out there…more than 490,000 of you are following @ONECampaign!). In less than an hour, Devex, the world’s leading online community for more than half a million aid workers and international development professionals, will be live-tweeting their conference on innovation in international development from their Twitter handle @Devex.

Meet Mutinta, a 28-year-old pregnant woman in Zambia. Married to a polygamist, Mutinta and her family are shaken to their core when the HIV/AIDS epidemic infiltrates their humble farming life. When Mutinta learns that she too is HIV-positive, she sets out on a mission to break the cycle of transmission. Since the disease still generates

This post is part of “Digital Africa”, a mini blog series on the programs and products using technology and innovation help fight poverty. It seems that we’ve seen phone apps for just about everything these days. But here’s one you probably never saw coming -– iCow. Yes, you read that correctly. iCow is a voice-based

For young boys and girls living in Kenya’s giant Mathare slums, dreams of bright futures are often overwhelmed by poverty and crime. But now, thanks to Anno’s Africa, a UK-based charity that offers arts education to vulnerable children in some of Africa’s most deprived city slums, these children are getting an opportunity to get off