This year we are asking Canadians to step outside their comfort zones for 5 days by living on just $1.75 a day for all food and drink. We have partnered with 4 great organizations – RESULTS Canada, Raising the Village, Cuso International and Spread the Net as fundraising recipients.What excites me most about Live Below the Line is that, love it or hate it, it gets people talking.The conversations around this challenge have shed a new light on the issue of extreme poverty.In my lifetime, the number of people living in extreme poverty has been cut in half. That momentum should be applauded and by living below the line we as Canadians can contribute in a meaningful way.

ONE member Sarah Stone, from Waterloo, Canada, shares her stories from Half the Sky’s events in Toronto. When Pulitzer prize winning authors Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn visited Toronto, Canada recently to promote their new Half the Sky Facebook game based on their best selling book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women

Close your eyes and picture Africa. What do you see? Starving children? Drought? Conflict? If so, it’s not your fault. Quite often, it’s the only image painted by the media. Keep track of most mainstream news source’s coverage of Africa and you’ll rarely find anything other than stories of the impoverished and victimized. You would

While volunteering at the recent International AIDS Conference in Washington DC, I had the opportunity to talk with Stephanie Nolen, a foreign correspondent for The Globe and Mail in Canada and author of “28 Stories of AIDS in Africa,” about her most recent project, the Museum of AIDS in Africa. The Museum is currently an

When Ben Leo, director of ONE’s global policy team and Sara Messer, policy manager from ONE in Washington, D.C., recently traveled to Ottawa, it seemed like a great chance to have a meet up with some of our ONE members in the Ottawa area. From left to right, Mark Entwhistle, Sara Messer, Peter Braid, MP

A great guest post from ONE member Sarah Stone in Waterloo, Ontario: I recently had the privilege to travel to Ottawa with ONE and represent the thousands of Canadians who lent their voice to the petition calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to honor his commitments to the world’s poor and protect Canadian foreign aid

As we continue our campaign to protect critical Canadian international development funding, ONE member Sarah Stone, from Waterloo, Ontario, reports back from meeting her local member of parliament. As a constituent and on behalf of ONE I had the opportunity recently to meet with Peter Braid, Conservative Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.   ONE

Guest post by James Haga, Director of Advocacy at Engineers without Borders Canada. Extreme poverty, the kind that deprives hard working people of their full potential, is an immediate reality for many. It is a real thing, gripping the lives of billions of people. The number is so massive that, for most of us, it

At around just 2 percent of the annual federal budget, Canadian foreign aid is achieving real results in the lives of the world’s poor. From providing life-saving vaccines and treatment for deadly diseases, providing food aid to reduce starvation, to investing in agriculture and farming to fight poverty and hunger, it is making a massive

Despite significant progress in global food security since the beginning of the 2009 L’Aquila Food Security Initiative, many developing countries are not on track to meeting Millennium Development Goal 1 — halving hunger and extreme poverty. However, next week donor countries have a once-in-three years opportunity to accelerate progress toward this goal through the replenishment

And one more update to fill you in on today, straight from ONE’s Nora Coghlan. Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper just took the stage at the UN. He talked about Canada’s top three development priorities over the next five years – food security, children and youth, and economic development – and highlighted some of Canada’s

More details have emerged in the past couple weeks on the G8’s commitment to improve maternal, newborn and child health through the “Muskoka Initiative,” but not enough to deliver on the G8’s other critical commitment at the 2010 summit – to enhance their own accountability. The initiative (which includes a $5 billion in funding from

Wondering what the NGO community thought of the G8 and G20 Summits in Canada? Here’s a great round-up of responses from a host of our partners and friends from the online news source The Sherpa. The G8: http://www.sherpatimes.com/g8/179-g8-summit-ngo-responses.html The G20: http://www.sherpatimes.com/g8/185-ngo-responses-to-the-g20-summit.html

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

On June 3, ONE hosted a parliamentary reception at the National Gallery in Ottawa, Canada to raise awareness on maternal and child mortality ahead of the G8 in Muskoka later this month. Featuring a special appearance by model and activist Christy Turlington-Burns, we showed a clip of her new documentary No Woman, No Cry. Ottawa-based