“Do not complain, never whine, make every effort to change the things you do not like, and do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.” - Maya Angelou
My name is Arafa Salim Said, I am the fourth child in a family of seven. I was diagnosed with sickle cell disease at the tender age of eight months and I have been an outright warrior ever since.
Sickle cell disease is a severe hereditary form of anaemia which mutates haemoglobin...
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The highlight of my weekend was watching a 200-strong crowd shout in unison: Poverty is Sexist.
We were gathered on International Women’s Day to launch ONE’s new campaign in the presence of government and UN officials, action/2015 partners, celebrities, the media and over 200 ONE supporters at Indaba Conference Centre in Johannesburg.
This week in Addis Ababa, I attended Gender Is My Agenda Campaign (GIMAC)’s pre-AU Summit Consultative Meeting on Mainstreaming Gender in the African Union and its Member States. This year, gender issues are not only being streamlined in the key policy processes on the continent – they are the priority.
As we know from this weeks Big Brother task, food is a hugely important part of African life… From agriculture, to cooking, to big family meals, our crops and our culture are what binds us to our countries and to our economies. In order to celebrate the diversity of crops our continent can support we’ve decided to put together a list of our favourite foods. Are yours on our list?! 1. Ugali na nyama choma (East African): “nyama choma,”...
Nigeria’s response to the Ebola epidemic raging in West Africa has so far been robust and decisive - attracting commendations from several international partners.
Our voices were heard in Malabo, we made a difference!
On January 20, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, we launched the Do Agric, It Pays campaign. The campaign called on African governments to keep their promises to invest in agriculture and support smallholder farmers when they meet at the AU Heads Of state summit in June in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
Over the course of the campaign, over 2 million Africans rose to the occasion and joined us in sending this message to...
This week without a doubt has been one of the most remarkable weeks of my life, and my work at ONE. A wind of change is blowing over Africa, and it is refreshing to see that Africans are steering its course.
Did you know that women make up half of Africa's agricultural workforce overall, and more than half in several countries? And did you know that these African women, depending on where they're from, produce up to 66% less per unit of land than men?
ONE’s Sydney congratulates Melvin during a visit to ONE’s Johannesburg office. Photo: ONE On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we are excited to announce that Melvin is the winner of our video message competition targeting the African Union. I was excited to meet Melvin again after we shared the same flight to his home country, Nigeria, after the end of this season’s Big Brother Africa. Melvin is obviously as talented as he is good-looking. Besides his...
Day 3 of ONE’s charity week in the Big Brother Africa house was focused on fighting the epidemic of HIV and AIDS through open health budgets.
The housemates woke up to the reality that 69% of people with HIV/AIDS in the world are living in Africa. Actually the number will be the same tomorrow and worse if there is no action.
The first task challenged housemates to create a mural mosaic in the shape of the AIDS ribbon using 500 unused condoms....