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As we commemorate Memorial Day, check out this blog post and video from our friends at the Truman National Security Project: On Memorial Day, we join together across the United States and commemorate the men and women of the armed services who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect their country. The video above is brought

ONE is inviting friends and supporters to share ideas on how to provide energy for the world’s poorest people as part of our Energy Poverty Challenge. In this piece, Ernest Mupunga, Southern Africa Director of international development charity Practical Action, discusses how small access to energy is challenging poverty and offering life-changing opportunities in Africa.

Dagfinn Høybråten, board chair of the GAVI Alliance, talks about his recent trip to Haiti for World Immunization Week. I had the chance to help protect a life today, the life of a little girl named Madeleine Isaac. My part was brief and ceremonial, squeezing out two drops of polio vaccine. Madeleine made a funny

By Grant Wilkins, past RI director and member of the Rotary Club of Denver, Colorado. This piece was originally posted on the Rotary Voices blog. In 1951, as a young father of three children ages 5, 2 and 3 months (the youngest born prematurely and still in the hospital), I contracted Bulbar Polio. My throat

Guest blog post from the GAVI Alliance Today marks a milestone for Ghana, with the West African nation making an unprecedented step towards saving the lives of its children from two of the biggest child killers in the country, through the simultaneous introduction of two new vaccines. Pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines will protect the children

This post from Padma Kuppa is part of a larger blog series on faith and the fight against malaria ahead of World Malaria Day. Get involved in Faith at ONE’s “Shine a Light on Malaria” campaign on their website. Om asato mā sadgamaya, Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya, Mṛtyormā’mṛtaṁ gamaya, Om śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. Lead us

This blog post is a collaboration between IITA, Harvest Plus and ONE. Nigeria officially released three Vitamin A cassava varieties on December 7th, 2011. This is huge news. It’s not every day that a new variety of cassava, a staple root crop in much of Africa, (let alone three!) sets the stage for helping more

Paul S. Mason, president and CEO of independent broadcaster and media organization Link TV, shares insights about the value of social innovation in addressing some of the world’s toughest global poverty challenges. Link TV’s ViewChange project collaborated with McKinsey & Company’s Social Sector Office and Huffington Post Impact to spotlight promising innovations in the half-hour

This piece by Gregory Adams was originally published on Oxfam America’s Politics of Poverty blog. Most people probably weren’t paying attention to the Washington Post business page on Dec 25. (Myself, I was trying to corral two toddlers and navigate a sea of Legos and torn paper). But for people in poor countries who are

Rachel Wilson, senior director of advocacy and public policy at PATH, explains why supporting foreign assistance not only saves and improves lives, but also improves morale here at home. Rachel’s quilt patch This year, I commemorated World AIDS Day at ONE and (RED)’s event in Washington, DC, where I listened to sitting and past presidents,

Rachel Maranto of Save the Children shares some good news for maternal health from an unlikely place: Afghanistan.   Sakila. Photo credit: Rachel Maranto/Save the ChildrenThis is Sakila. Fourteen years ago she nearly died giving birth to her son. “I was giving birth at home, there were complications and I fell unconscious. Eventually my family

Dan Haseltine, lead singer of Jars of Clay and founder of Blood: Water Mission, reflects on his experience at ONE and (RED)’s World AIDS Day event, and compares the HIV/AIDS epidemic to a dragon. I’m sitting in a mostly quiet airport eating an international dinner (read: China Panda), trying to remember names and faces and