Refugee Camp, Kadujli Primary School. Kakuma, Kenya, Feb 2017. As the sun rises over the dusty roads, its light begins to reflect on the corrugated tin rooftops. In these early hours, houses are already bustling with activity as young children prepare for school. In this refugee camp, as in hundreds of others across the world, many girls are busy preparing breakfast while helping their siblings get ready for the day. After their chores are done, the girls who...
By Chris Kardish, Raimund Zühr, Sabine Campe (SEEK Development) There are few United Nations goals with a bigger impact across the entire development agenda than education. Improving the health of societies, reducing poverty and inequality, eradicating hunger, empowering women – all of them require giant leaps forward in global education. But as many researchers and advocates have pointed out, getting there will require more investment, including from wealthier donor countries to developing countries. However, existing data reveals the opposite: donor country...
By Imani LaTortue, ONE Digital Intern While the world can sometimes feel like a gloomy place, there are some amazing people and causes that balance out the bad with some really incredible GOOD. We believe it’s important to utilize our talents and passions to help the world around us. That’s why we wanted to spotlight just a few of the many, many organizations dedicated to doing just that: Solar Sister Solar Sister is an organization that helps support women...
Earlier this year, ONE’s co-founder Bono was honored by Skoll Foundation with the Skoll Global Treasure Award in recognition of social entrepreneurship on a global scale. (Previous recipients have included Muhammad Yunus, Graça Machel, Archbishop Tutu, Malala Yousafzai, and the Dalai Lama!) As part of the honor, Skoll and ONE produced a video with some of Bono’s thoughts on activism, commerce, and politics—and the role each of those things can play in the fight against poverty. Watch the full video below:
Story and photos by Ray Mwareya. Expensive maternity fees in Zimbabwe are a nightmare for pregnant women. In state or church clinics, where the majority of the poor give birth, charges can rise to $50 USD per month until delivery, according to Chido Gama of the Zimbabwe Health Human Rights Forum, a local lobby network that monitors the rights of disadvantaged expectant mothers. But organizations like the United Nations Population Fund — with support from foreign assistance provided by countries...
Thanks to the diligent work of dedicated ONE members, we’re one step closer to helping 263 million children—including more than 130 million girls—around the world gain access to education! The READ Act — also known as HR 601, the Reinforcing Education Accountability in Development Act of 2017 — has been signed into law. As anyone who has followed the bill’s progress knows, getting to this point was no small feat! Throughout 2017, ONE members worked hard to engage with their senators and...
Ever Google your own name to see what comes up? Yeah, me neither (*wink*). For as long as there have been elections, politicians have wanted to know what people are saying about them. Especially what’s being said to their constituents. That’s why every Congressional office has a junior staffer who, each morning, scans the local newspapers and websites looking for mentions of their boss’ name. In the business, we call them “press hits.” The staffer compiles the press hits into an...
By Lauren Ahn, ONE Digital Intern August 19 is World Humanitarian Day! Established by the United Nations in 2008, World Humanitarian Day honors all those who devote themselves to helping others, no matter where they are or who they are. It’s a day to bring attention to humanitarian needs all over the world and the importance of international support and cooperation to meet those needs. It’s a day to celebrate people helping people! To that end, here are five amazing...
This post is a joint effort between The ONE Campaign and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Walking into a room and flipping a power switch is something I do multiple times a day with little to no thought about whether or not the lights will turn on. In the United States, most of us take for granted not just that the lights will turn on, but also that the refrigerator will keep our food cold, the oven and microwave will warm...
With Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Capitol Hill this week for hearings on President Trump’s budget proposal, 16 top retired generals and flag officers submitted joint testimony today in defense of America’s foreign aid budget. “It is clear to us that strategic development assistance is not charity,” the military leaders write. “It is an essential, modern tool of U.S. national security.” “American security is undermined by frail and failing nations where hope is non-existent,...