Barb Barrar has been a ONE activist from the very start – since May 16, 2004, the day ONE was launched in Philadelphia. On ONE’s 20th birthday, we chatted with Barb about her first 20 years as an activist – and what she hopes to see in the next!
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Eden Tadesse, a social entrepreneur, human rights advocate, and a ONE activist from Ethiopia, won the 2023 Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Progress Award! She is an advocate for refugee rights and her vision is a world where refugees have equal opportunities to fair wages and good jobs.
Eden founded Invicta in 2019. It's a digital platform that helps refugees learn new skills, find jobs, integrate into their new homes, and connect with international companies. More than 35,000 people from 90 countries...
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Global Activists
ONE’s Global Activists are a network of passionate advocates that bring our campaigns to life around the world and engage their local decisionmakers to deliver key advocacy wins.
ONE is supported by dedicated volunteer advocates across Africa, North America, and Europe who tirelessly fight for the investments needed to create economic opportunities and healthier lives in Africa. These passionate individuals serve as volunteer leaders for ONE within their communities and beyond. If you are ready to step up, we will find the right role for you, and you can become part of this impactful program and engage in...
The lead singer of Irish rock band U2, Bono was born Paul David Hewson in Dublin. He met the Edge, Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam Clayton at school, and in 1978 U2 was formed. Acknowledged as one of the best live acts in the world, U2 have sold over 157 million albums and won numerous awards, including 22 Grammys and the Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award. In 2005, U2 was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of...
Dr. Rajiv Shah serves as President of the Rockefeller Foundation, a global institution with a century long record of success applying science, technology, and innovation to lift up the world’s most vulnerable.
Dr. Shah brings over twenty years of experience in business, government, and philanthropy to The Rockefeller Foundation. In 2009, he was appointed USAID Administrator by President Obama, leading the $20 billion agency’s work delivering results for countries facing democratic transitions, post-conflict situations, and humanitarian crises. After his departure...
Oluseun Onigbinde is the co-founder and Director of BudgIT, a global civic organisation with offices in Africa and the United States. Oluseun Onigbinde is a recipient of the Ashoka Fellowship, Future Africa Awards, Quartz Africa 30 Innovators Award, Aspen New Voices Fellowship, Melvin Jones Fellowship and Stanford Draper Hill Summer Fellowship. As a Knight Innovation Fellow, he also worked with the International Center for Journalists/Gates Foundation on rethinking health journalism in Nigeria. Oluseun has worked on several projects backed...
Helene D. Gayle, M.D., MPH., began serving as the 11th president of Spelman College on July 1, 2022. Dr. Gayle previously served as president and CEO of The Chicago Community Trust, one of the nation’s oldest and largest community foundations, from October 2017 to June 2022. Under her leadership, the Trust adopted a new strategic focus on closing the racial and ethnic wealth gap in the Chicago region.
For almost a decade, Dr. Gayle was president and CEO of CARE,...
Joe Cerrell is Managing Director for Global Policy & Advocacy, Europe, Middle East & East Asia, based in the Gates Foundation’s European Office in London. In this role, Joe oversees the Foundation’s relationships with donor governments in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East. His team seeks to expand the Foundation’s partnerships with these governments, but also corporations, foundations and other non-governmental organisations, to support increased global engagement and progress on global health and agriculture. Since joining the...
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Become a Youth Ambassador
ONE Youth Ambassadors – part of ONE’s Global Activists programme – are a young and motivated team of volunteers who electrify our campaigns across Europe and the United Kingdom.
The annual Youth Ambassador programmes provide more than 300 young activists across Europe with the skills to advocate for more economic opportunities and healthier lives in Africa, by engaging decision-makers at European, national and local levels.
Interested in becoming a ONE Youth Ambassador?
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria is a global player that helps fight these three preventable diseases.
This year, global leaders had the opportunity to reinvest in the Global Fund, and there was a huge amount at stake. In fact, the Global Fund could save 20 million lives by the year 2026 with its request for $18 billion. Watch our video below to find out just how big of an impact this is.
https://twitter.com/ONECampaign/status/1569710118211567616
So, how much did global...