How We Work Together: Partnership Highlight – World Concern and One Day’s Wages

Adrianna Logalbo, campaign head of Future Fortified, witnesses a 26-year-old mother of six commit her family to good nutrition.  Last December, I traveled to Kenya on behalf of the Future Fortified campaign, where I met several women who are nourishing the next generation. It was there I was reminded of the power that women everywhere have

Can’t find the perfect gift for the doting mom in your life? I’ve got you covered. As ONE’s resident products-for-good expert (don’t believe me? Check out all the gift guides I’ve written for ONE!), I’ve scoured Pinterest, blogs and more to bring you some of my favorite fair trade products that I think would work

This week, we celebrate integration. Though it is intrinsically at the heart of what we and our partners do in addressing myriad global health challenges through thoughtful, efficient strategies, today integration is particularly at the fore. For the very first time, there is a global plan to simultaneously take on the two diseases killing more than 2 million young children each year: pneumonia and diarrhea.

The Integrated Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD), released last week by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, provides the latest strategies and evidence needed to reduce death and illness from the two leading killer diseases among children. Beyond integration across the two diseases, the GAPPD is an opportunity to meld global and local agendas, giving national governments a comprehensive tool to determine the specific plans, investments and partners needed to address the unique needs of their countries and achieve the greatest health impact for their citizens.

In 2008, ONE launched its first call for applications for the newly created ONE Africa Award. Five years later, we have been overwhelmed with the depth of creativity, enthusiasm and innovation coming from the continent; awarding the prize becomes more difficult each year. Through this process, certain applicants have stood out. We’re particularly interested in recognising organisations that can tie direct service delivery elements—let’s say providing pro bono legal knowledge to women fighting for their rights —to innovative advocacy efforts that will result in systemic transformation of their nation’s prospects.

This guest post is by journalist Abby Higgins, in partnership with The Seattle Globalist. It’s the third in a four part series which reveals the economically complex and culturally rich life of urban slums, and challenges our perceptions of what life is like for the 1 billion people around the world that live in them.

This guest post is by journalist Abby Higgins, in partnership with The Seattle Globalist. It’s the second in a four part series which reveals the economically complex and culturally rich life of urban slums, and challenges our perceptions of what life is like for the 1 billion people around the world that live in them.

Hailey Tucker, communications associate at One Acre Fund, provides an intimate portrait of the life of a farmer. In partnership with One Acre Fund, we’ll be following Anne, a smallholder farmer from Kenya, for a whole growing season. From planting to harvest, we will check in every month to see what life is really like for a farmer in rural Kenya.

To celebrate World Water Day we have a guest post from Jonny McKay of Excellent Development. Excellent Development support communities in Kenya to build Sand Dams which provide clean water for life and the opportunity to grow more food to eat, store and sell. For women in the world’s rural drylands, life is defined by the burden of collecting water. For the old and the young, the sick and the healthy, it is a chore with no relief.

As the ballots were being counted in the recent Kenya election, I saw photos of people displaying the encouraging message: Give Peace a Chance. So far, that sentiment seems to be holding. Equally important for the future of the country is this imperative message for the new government: Give Peas a Chance. And Maize. And Beans. And Sweet Potatoes. And Millet. And Sorghum. And Peanuts.

I first met Jacktone Otieno when I was doing research on women’s rights in Kenya. A group of graduate students I was working with had hired him to drive us to a rural project site. We became close quickly. I was the only person who spoke Swahili and our conversations broke up long drives through the dusty Rift Valley. When my Swahili stalled on serious topics, his perfect English swooped in and filled the gaps.