By Hannah Elansary, ONE US marketing intern
Ricky Lee Gordon at work on a new mural. Photo: oxeloskateboards.com
Ricky Lee Gordon is on a quest to prove that art can make a difference. His artwork has been exhibited all over the world from the Gambia to New York, and featured on the BBC and National Geographic alongside world-famous graffiti artist Banksy.
Inspired by his hometown of Cape Town, South Africa, his creative alter ego Freddy Sam is a forever-young, fearless romantic who still...
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In partnership with One Acre Fund, we are 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. Written by Hailey Tucker.
For the 2013 season, One Acre Fund offered each of its Kenyan farmers more than 400 live sweet potato vines to plant and harvest.
Anne with her new orange-flesh sweet potato plants. Photo credit: One...
By Arathi Rao, ONE’s Policy Manager, Agriculture and Nutrition
Children at Mawango School in Malawi eating a mid-morning snack of porridge, supported by the World Food Programme. Photo: Morgana Wingward
Last week world leaders pledged more than $4 billion to global nutrition programs and committed to save 20 million children from malnutrition at Nutrition for Growth, a pre-G8 event, in London. Now that these ambitious targets have been set, and tremendous resources have been mobilised to accomplish this goal, one question...
Throughout history, protest songs have inspired and celebrated social change. ONE’s agit8 project harnesses the power of protest songs to inspire a new generation to join the protest of our lifetime: extreme poverty.
Listen to Bob Marley’s ‘Redemption Song’ and learn about the movement that abolished slavery.
Photo used under Creative Commons: Flickr/National Archives
Old pirates, yes, they rob I I, and 9-12 million Africans were robbed of our freedom and sent to the Americas as slaves
Sold I to the merchant ships from the...
If you received a second chance at life, what would become precious to you?
This is a question that UNAIDS asked seven people from across Africa who are alive thanks to antiretroviral treatment.
At ONE we were thrilled to read that today, more than 7 million people across Africa have access to lifesaving HIV treatment. And we also loved reading these seven personal stories that were profiled in last week’s UNAIDS Update on HIV/AIDS in Africa.
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Photo: Centres for Disease Control
Today is World Malaria Day and we’re asking ONE members to join the global movement to eradicate it. This deadly but preventable disease, spread by mosquitoes, causes 660,000 deaths a year – 90% of them in Africa.
Thanks to political will and sustained investment, together the world has saved 1 million lives in just a decade. And 50 countries are on track to reduce malaria by 75% by 2015.
So how can you get involved? We’ve made...
This guest post is by journalist Abby Higgins, in partnership with The Seattle Globalist. It’s the fourth in a five-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 one billion people around the world that live in them.
Unofficial housing being built by residents within Kibera. Photo: Abby Higgins
Mildred Lunani knew that if she stayed in her village in Western Kenya she could pretty much count on...
Princess Adeyeo is from Monrovia, Liberia and is HIV positive. But thanks to funding from the Global Fund she was able to give birth to a healthy HIV-free baby boy. Photo: Morgana Wingward
15 Instagram buy-outs; 384 Lionel Messis; 1 London Olympics; or 30 million iPads. These are just a few of the things you could have purchased if you had a spare $15 billion burning a hole in your pocket recently (and really, don’t we all?). But yesterday, the...
Our guest blogger today is Justine Lucas, U.S. Campaigns Manager at the Global Poverty Project.
Over a billion people on this planet live in extreme poverty. Yet, for many of us, extreme poverty is a fairly abstract, intangible issue. We feel it is an injustice. We know it is intolerable. We fight to change this reality. But we are working to eliminate something we do not have the access or perspective to smell, taste, feel or with which to have...
The shop is dark and humid. I duck inside, and the warm glow of three television screens coats a room filled with a dozen neighborhood boys. Three of them hammer away at PlayStation controllers, sending a tiny soccer ball leaping across the screen.