Open letter and new report highlight how girls and women in extreme poverty suffer the hardest
WASHINGTON — Oprah Winfrey, Shonda Rhimes, Sheryl Sandberg, Melinda Gates, Bono, Sir Elton John, and Muhammad Ali are just a few of the 86 high-profile signers of an open letter to world leaders released Monday declaring that 'poverty is sexist' against girls and women.
On the eve of International Women's Day, The ONE Campaign and dozens of actors, musicians, journalists, business leaders, celebrities, and other strong voices for women...
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Did you know that each year, more movies come out of Nigeria’s "Nollywood" than Hollywood? We’ve picked our top ten films and documentaries from across Africa that you simply have to see.
“Leadership means a wise application of military power, and rallying the world behind causes that are right. It means seeing our foreign assistance as part of our national security, not charity.” ...
As more Africans move out of poverty, job creation is the necessary next step and having bright young women at the helm providing employment is a way of directly addressing and eradicating the adverse effects poverty has on women!
"It was a mild September night, and I was in Kenya’s northern frontier district, Laikipia. The Samburu Trust had arranged for me to spend a couple of hours with a Samburu elder and his family... I just wanted to capture a tiny slice of their everyday life."
By Razan Azzarkani, ONE Faith Outreach and Mobilization Intern Spiritual leaders have always been at the forefront of social justice issues. Check out these quotes from faith leaders on fighting poverty, practicing compassion, and working towards creating a more equitable world! Abdu’l-Baha (Baha’i Faith) “Hearts must be so cemented together, love must become so dominant that the rich shall most willingly extend assistance to the poor and take steps to establish these economic adjustments permanently.” Abdul Baha; Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons ...
The craft of cheese-making has been thriving in one region of the Congo, dubbed the ‘Switzerland of Africa’.
David McNair is an award-winning reporter and editor based in Charlottesville, Va. He runs the hyper-local news site The DTM and his fiction has appeared inVirginia Quarterly Review. A version of this was published on Take Part.
In the lush hills of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, an unusual craft practiced in the Masisi Mountains is thriving despite decades of war: fine cheese-making.
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This is the second in a series of posts on a study abroad in South Africa by Juliet Schear. You can read the introduction to and part 1 of the series here.
Photo credit: Joel Burt-Miller
The Disability Project – Sandanezwe, KZN
Tucked away in the sprawling mountains and grassy hills of Sandanezwe lays a hidden gem: The Sandanezwe Disability Project. The importance of the Disability Project to this closely knit rural community is analogous to the importance of water to a seedling; the...
WASHINGTON – The ONE Campaign welcomes the introduction of S 1252, the Global Food Security Act (GFSA) of 2015. This bipartisan bill, along with its counterpart in the House (HR 1567), contains long-awaited reforms that would empower people living in the poorest places to stabilize food production and address chronic hunger - especially among women and children.
WASHINGTON – The ONE Campaign welcomes the introduction of HR 1567, the Global Food Security Act of 2015. This bipartisan bill contains long-awaited reforms that would empower people living in the poorest places to stabilize food production and address chronic hunger (especially among women and children).
Tom Hart, U.S. Executive Director of ONE, says:
“We applaud Representatives Chris Smith (R-NJ), Betty McCollum (D-MN), and their fellow cosponsors for their common sense approach to addressing global food insecurity. At the heart of...