This piece is part of a reporting partnership between ONE and Refugees Deeply. Fatuma Omar Ismail currently studies chemical engineering at the University of Toronto in Canada on a scholarship. But she spent most of her childhood in Dadaab, a complex of refugee camps in northern Kenya, near the border with Somalia, where much of her family still resides. Below, she describes the daily challenges she faced as a 12-year-old determined to change her future. The muezzin calls the...
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This interview was conducted by Mario Calabresi, Lola Huete-Machado, and Thorsten Jungholt and originally appeared in WELT, La Republicca, Le Figaro, and El País, all of the Leading European Newspaper Alliance, or LENA.
One is wearing a tie and a suit, the other one a black t-shirt, boots, and earrings. One is the richest entrepreneur in the world, the other a rock superstar. They are sitting next to another; Bill Gates is drinking a Diet Coke and Bono a plain...
“If you don’t fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition.” - General James Mattis
“Our security will be improved by sustaining foreign aid in the years ahead rather than by making further cuts.” - General David Petraeus
“I am concerned that levels of funding for our State Department and USAID partners will not sufficiently enable them to build on the hard-fought security achievements of our men and women in uniform. Inadequate resourcing of our...
WASHINGTON — The ONE Campaign is pleased to announce the appointment of Sally Canfield as its new senior director of U.S. government relations. Canfield is the former senior director for international government affairs for the global pharmaceutical company, AbbVie, and the former deputy chief of staff to Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), providing strategic counsel, overseeing the senator’s legislative work, and personally leading on his global health portfolio.
Tom Hart, ONE’s executive director for North America, said:
“It’s tough to recall...
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
WASHINGTON — The ONE Campaign celebrated the introduction of H.R. 5537, the Digital Global Access Policy Act of 2016 yesterday. The bipartisan legislation was introduced by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and the Committee’s Ranking Member, Eliot Engel (D-NY) and co-sponsored by House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Foreign Affairs Committee member Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY). The bill urges the United States to promote internet access in developing countries with an eye toward...
These four incredible Muppets are teaching young viewers about sanitation, nutrition, gender equality, and more!
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...
This Valentine’s Day we celebrate five powerful couples who are spreading the love by using their influence and resources to make the world a better place. These couples illustrate the power of love in more ways than we could imagine!
Eva wrote to all ONE members demanding we do more to help beat extreme poverty in her village and every place like it around the world by 2030. She didn’t rest there and went on to pen an appeal to the President. He just answered.