It has been more than three months since Isaac Mutua, a Kenyan working in Durban, South Africa, sent money home to his family back in Kenya. Mutua, a renowned chef, lost his job after his employer closed down the restaurant where he worked following the COVID-19 lockdown measures in South Africa starting on 24 March.
Since 2015, Mutua has been sending $300 monthly to Nduta, his wife based in Kitengela, outside of Nairobi. His remittances have been their sole source...
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To ensure that the world responds effectively to COVID-19 and the challenges it has presented, world leaders, companies, and individuals need to come together in a single response effort — a global pandemic of this magnitude demands a global response.
Finding an effective vaccine is a key part of a global response plan. But that is only half the battle.
After an effective vaccine for COVID-19 becomes available, world leaders must come together to ensure there is equitable access to a...
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven just how important strong health systems and both patient and healthcare worker safety is. With World Patient Safety Day falling on 17 September during a global health crisis, the gaps in our health systems are more apparent now than ever before.
At its core, World Patient Safety Day “calls for global solidarity and concentrated action by all countries and international partners to improve patient safety.” The current pandemic, unfortunately, has “unveiled the huge challenges health...
Megan Gieske is a storyteller and photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Ntombi Mbinda gestures around the kitchen in her home; it’s a room only of women. One woman bends over a pot, stirring the day’s rice. Another cuts vegetables, their headwraps shine brilliantly in the slanting light of the afternoon sun.
The women — Theodora, Lorna, Phindiwe, Nobuntu, and Noxolo — arrive every weekday at 8:30am to begin cooking from Ntombi’s home. Outside the kitchen, a garden Ntombi planted...
The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to undo years of progress on global education. Since the pandemic started, school closures have affected up to 91% of enrolled learners, or 1.6 billion children. Here is a look at how countries’ policies on school closures evolved over the past six months.
COVID-19 quickly transformed from a localized epidemic to a global pandemic with far-reaching consequences across sectors
6 months ago, when COVID-19 was still just a localized epidemic, only two countries had restrictions on...
Celestina Obiekea is a ONE Champion alumni and consultant with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
Celestina Obiekea has seen first hand the impacts of COVID-19, working as the laboratory network advisor at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
She wants all Nigerians to know the pandemic is real:
“While a lot of people will likely get infected and recover without even so much as a headache, there’s no magic wand to tell who will survive and who will not, and at...
When responding to a global crisis, good leaders and leadership is essential. Pandemics and health crises know no borders and can affect entire populations. However, having strong leaders can significantly impact how and how well a country responds.
To tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, we need strong leaders, globally and locally. One quality that leaders must possess in order to effectively respond to the crisis is being able to take decisive, urgent action. Urgent decision-making is a fundamental part of being...
In order to make a difference, we must be the change we wish to see in this world. ONE Champions do just that — they are global activists who are working today to create a better world for tomorrow. They are a strong and vibrant group of volunteers who work to support ONE Africa’s advocacy work via lobbying, recruiting, and supporting the ONE mission.
In order to grow that amazing team and further their efforts, ONE has just launched recruitment...
The socioeconomic impact of the COVID-19 crisis is real. Beyond the deaths and hardships caused by the coronavirus, the pandemic is also devastating livelihoods and disrupting the movement of people, goods, and services.
Virtually every sector that contributes to economic growth is affected: health, education, transport, environment, infrastructure, hospitality, tourism, entertainment, construction, manufacturing, transport, agriculture, and wholesale and retail trade, among others.
With limited public resources to combat the pandemic, the global economy is struggling to achieve positive growth rates and...
ONE Champion Felix Brian Onyango shares why it’s important to raise up the voices of today’s youth.
International Youth Day on 12 August gives an opportunity to celebrate and bring to the forefront young peoples’ voices, actions, and initiatives, as well as their meaningful, universal, and equitable engagement. The theme of International Youth Day 2020 is “Youth Engagement for Global Action,” which aptly highlights the ways in which the engagement of young people at the local, national, and global levels...