By girls’ education activist Selina Nkoile and ONE Policy Manager Gabriele Simeone
In the Maasai community, girls are booked for marriage at the age of 6, sometimes earlier. Once married off — generally, at age 12 — their fathers are compensated for their daughters with cows (or ng’ombe in Swahili), the most precious assets a Maasai family can have.
Before being married off though, child brides have to go through female genital mutilation and — if they survive — become wives...
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“One thing I’ve learned is that we can achieve so much more together than we ever can alone.” – Esperance Butoyi, female artisan from Rwanda
This holiday season, we’re excited to launch a new exclusive product: our bright sweetgrass bangles, which we made in partnership with our friends at Indego Africa.
Indego Africa works with more than 1,000 women in Ghana and Rwanda to produce beautiful products using traditional methods and local materials. Our bangles were crafted by women of the...
By Imogen Calderwood, Street Child
For many families in Sierra Leone, education is out of reach for one reason: poverty.
Thousands of children are kept out of school simply because their parents don’t earn enough money so, instead of going to school, these young children have to generate income – often in dangerous work environments out on the streets.
This tragic pattern, unless broken, has the potential to repeat itself endlessly and trap families in poverty for generations.
But with a small helping...
With President Barack Obama’s last full day in office drawing near, we wanted to take a look back at the times he — and First Lady Michelle Obama — were key figures in the fight against poverty and preventable disease. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) The Electrify Africa Act is signed into law The president helped 15 million more people get access to electricity with Power Africa and signed the Electrify Africa Act to continue...
130 Million Girls Globally are Denied an Education – More than the Population of Germany
Open Letter to World Leaders Launched as part of ONE’s Poverty is Sexist Campaign
WASHINGTON – An alliance of trailblazers from business, entertainment, media and activism have joined forces to demand urgent action by world leaders to get the 130 million girls around the world who are denied the chance to go to school the education they deserve.
The group – which includes Facebook COO Sheryl...
Emergency food aid and other investments are badly needed in northeast Nigeria to keep tens of thousands of children from starvation and disease, warns anti-poverty group The ONE Campaign. A
“The hardest thing right now is that I’m not in school,” Hammoudi says. “I’m forgetting how to read and write and it is very, very annoying."
The service is completely free and it allows farmers to ask questions and receive crowd-sourced answers from other farmers around the world!
Legislation will help developing countries grow their way out of extreme poverty
WASHINGTON — The ONE Campaign celebrated the passage today of the bipartisan Global Food Security Act (GFSA). The GFSA was sponsored in the Senate by U.S. Senators Bob Casey, Jr. (D-PA) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and in the House by U.S. Representatives Chris Smith (R-NJ-04) and Betty McCollum (D-MN-04). ONE and its partners worked with Congressman Smith and Congresswoman McCollum to help secure a bipartisan array of...
This PATH-designed cup provides an ingenious way for infants to sip! A new award will support further testing and scale-up.