I distinctly remember when I first became aware of AIDS: I was a middle school student and there were reports of a disease that killed people with an immediacy that was unbelievable. Blood and exchange of bodily fluids were identified as modes of transmission and a stigma was quickly born. People said, “Stay away from

ONE Regional Field Director Abby Sasser provides a recap of ONE’s World Food Day event in Atlanta. ONE Supporter, Top Chef Master and Judge Hugh Acheson whipped up a delicious sweet potato soup for a packed room at The Viking Cooking School in Atlanta last Tuesday on World Food Day. During the cooking demonstration he

By Kristi York Wooten, ONE member The best thing about being a longtime member of both ONE and the CARE Action Network is the opportunity we have to develop tangible relationships with our elected officials and affect their policy decisions. It was a privilege to be one of the Atlanta friends and supporters of ONE

Over the weekend, ONE member Daniel Brookman from Georgia’s 12th district and I caught up with Congressman John Barrow at his “Congress on the Corner” stop in Glennville, GA. On behalf of the 3,417 ONE members living in his district, we thanked Rep. Barrow for supporting the reauthorization of PEPFAR, through which America is saving

Yesterday in Atlanta, Georgia, in the middle of an normal workday, a group of regular people sat down with Senator Isakson’s staff to discuss something extraordinary: saving lives and preventing diseases around the world. Sen. Isakson is the ranking member on the Africa Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and he will have strong

Last week, Sen. Johnny Isakson, (R-Ga.), was on Georgia Tech’s campus for the Back-to-School Barbecue, an event hosted by the Georgia Tech Campus Republicans. Me talking to the senator before his speech. As a member of the campus ONE chapter, I took the opportunity to talk to the senator about our commitment to the fight

Things were really BUZZING around the Marietta Square on Sunday, April 25 as over 500 people joined Marietta First Baptist Church, Grammy award winning band Third Day, ONE, Malaria No More and Nothing But Nets at the first annual World Malaria Day event to raise awareness and money. Mayor Steve Tumlin declares Marietta, Georgia a

Check out this blog post from Emily Bergquist, a middle school student from Johns Creek, Georgia. As part of a school project she organized a ONE display and recruited more than 150 students to sign the ONE declaration: Every year at my middle school, the 8th graders participate in a humanitarian project through our Language

Last week, ONE’s Keren Dongo and I had the opportunity to speak at two engaging conferences. The first conference was a gathering of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) presidents, administrators, and staff at the 36th National Dialogue on Blacks in Higher Education. This is an annual conference organized by the National Association for Equal

On Thursday ONE members gathered at Georgia Tech to participate in an advocacy workshop, the first of a series of ONE workshops that will be taking place across the country over the next few months. The event featured an in-depth policy update on agriculture and global health issues. We learned that close to 1 billion

As we move into October, the push we started in August for ONE members to meet with their Members of Congress is still going strong. ONE Members across the country had over 70 meetings with district staffers from both the House of Representatives and the Senate! These meetings provided an amazing opportunity to let our

Atlanta ONE hosted a presentation of the Youssou N’Dour documentary “I Bring What I Love” this past Saturday night in Atlanta. “I Bring What I Love” presents a snapshot portrayal of Youssou N’Dour, an African pop musician from Senegal and his struggles surrounding the release of an album of religious music. While the album was