ONE Mom Blogger Alice Currah is traveling to Ethiopia with ONE in October. This piece, originally published on her blog, Savory Sweet Life, is part of our coverage in the lead up to the trip.
While rummaging through old boxes for baby photos of my daughter’s school project, I found pictures from my early 20s, volunteering abroad in South and Central America. Working in remote areas serving the poorest of the poor in Bolivia, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, I realized very...
ONE Mom Blogger, philanthropist and model Maya Haile Samuelsson is traveling to Ethiopia with ONE in October. This blog post is part of our coverage in the lead up to the trip.
PHOTO CREDIT: Karen Walrond
I would like start by sincerely thanking all the ONE Moms who are sacrificing their time and energy and lending their voices to echo the need for partnership in bringing real change to many Ethiopians and to celebrate the progress made so far. It is...
This blog post is a collaboration between IITA, Harvest Plus and ONE.
Nigeria officially released three Vitamin A cassava varieties on December 7th, 2011. This is huge news. It’s not every day that a new variety of cassava, a staple root crop in much of Africa, (let alone three!) sets the stage for helping more thousands of poor farming families beat malnutrition.
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By Winston Mbanda, communications officer, KEMRI-CDC, Kisumu, Kenya. Stay tuned to the ONE Blog this week for more stories like these for World Malaria Day.
On December 1, 2010, my wife Isabel, a high school teacher in Bungoma District, western Kenya, and our two daughters, Hope and Joy, were traveling to join me in Nairobi for December holidays. At the time, I was working in Nairobi, which is about 240 miles from Bungoma. It had been a while since...
ONE member and Peace Corps volunteer Brandon Green will be sharing his experiences in Burkina Faso with ONE Blog readers in the series, “Back to Africa” over the next few months. We look forward to hearing all his adventures!
Nadine is 14 years old and in the 7th grade. She wakes up at 4 a.m. every day to sweep the courtyard and house before her father wakes. Then she walks to the pump to fetch water for the entire...
Last week we marked World AIDS Day, our annual time for reflection and a recognition that the beginning of the end of AIDS is upon us. As we commemorate the strides that have been made in the battle against the disease since its discovery 30 years ago, it seems the perfect opportunity to present our next ONE award finalist, Prévention Information Lutte contre le Sida (PILS) in Mauritius and honor the progress that they have achieved in the battle...
Meredith Lepore of TheGrindstone, a blog about women and the workplace, questions whether companies and employees are prepared to deal with the stigma of AIDS at the office.
It has been 18 years since Tom Hanks won an Oscar for portraying a gay man who was fired after he contracted AIDS in the film Philadelphia. But as we approach AIDS Day 2011 this Thursday, the negative stigma surrounding AIDS in the workplace has not come as far as we...
Adria Saracino of Distilled, a creative digital agency, shares an interactive infographic on global food consumption and income using data from a surprising source: Food Service Warehouse.
Developing countries consume much less than Western nations, particularly in times of crisis, like with what we’re seeing in Somalia. However, despite a lower caloric intake, these poorer countries’ citizens spend more than 50 percent of their income on food.
Food Service Warehouse (FSW) created the interactive infographic to the left (click to launch)...
Eric Farr, a Faiths Act Fellow of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, reflects on the teachings of the Baha’i faith, Thanksgiving and the famine in Africa.
“My God, my Adored One, my King, my Desire! What tongue can voice my thanks to Thee?” So begins a prayer of Bahá’u’lláh that I regularly turn to in moments of gratitude. It expresses what I think is a fairly common feeling among spiritually-minded folk: the feeling of overwhelming gratitude at the bounties and...
As a fellow ONE member and a firm believer in the interconnectedness of our world, I am always looking for new ways to help bridge the gaps within my community and within society as a whole. Recently, my friend recommended I watch the documentary “I Am.” She claimed that as a result of watching this film, she felt more connected and obligated than ever before to the world she was a part of. Being a philosophical and existential junkie,...