Summer is nearly over and it’s time for students around the world to head back into the classroom. This fall, make a statement on campus with a unique ONE Store item that demonstrates your commitment to gender equality and justice! Here our our top 5 back-to-school pieces you can wear to show your support: Equality Tote Tired of lugging around a bulky backpack to class? This embroidered tote — made from 100% cotton in Kenya by Jimani Collections,...
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Malala was thrust into the global spotlight nearly a decade ago because of her unstoppable and courageous dedication to getting an education.
Undeterred by the threat of speaking out publicly against the Taliban, Malala blogged for the BBC, featured in a short documentary about her fight for girls’ education in her community and even won Pakistan’s National Youth Peace Prize.
But in 2012, she was shot by the Taliban for standing up for what she believed in. Amazingly, this didn’t stop...
Written by Klara, 2016 ONE Youth Ambassador Germany
At 17 years old, Patrick was forced to leave his home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His city suffered multiple attacks from rebel groups, and he fled to Uganda with his younger brother, Raphael. After escaping this conflict, the two brothers found shelter in one of the most refugee-friendly nations in the world: Uganda.
Patrick and his brother have lived in the Nakivale refugee settlement for the past five years. The settlement...
This story was originally reported by Caroline Wambui and edited by Laurie Goering for the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
In this arid stretch of Kajiado County, Kenya where worsening heat and drought have been tough on livestock farmers, Arnold Ole Kapurua is experimenting with a hot new crop: chilies.
Ole Kapurua, 29, a farmer and agronomist, now grows two acres of the fiery pods – and is training other farmers to do the same – as a way to protect their incomes in...
This blog is written by Jen Roberts, a #ONEonTour volunteer at U2’s new show.
ONE Volunteer Jen Roberts in St. Louis with her sister Nicole Sardo, and her daughter Emma Roberts.
With less than an hour before U2 takes the stage, there’s a buzz inside the Scottrade Center in St. Louis as concert attendees stock up on concert merchandise and refill their beers. After a couple hours collecting petitions outside, fellow ONE volunteers and I employed a different tactic inside: stand next...
On one day in March dozens of people gathered in a hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The bright room was decorated with flowers and banners in red, green and white, the colours of Somaliland’s flag. Doctors –foreign and Somali – ministers, medical students, former patients and journalists filed in, greeting each other, standing in little groups and talking animatedly. A man walked to the front, bowed his head, and intoned a prayer over the crackly microphone, and the murmur turned...
By Ray Mwareya, co-founder of Women Taboos Radio
To girls in Zimbabwe who have worries like accessing nutritious food or sanitary health, learning to code might seem like a low priority. But that isn’t deterring 30-year-old Anoziva Marindire from seeking out girls ages 14 to 24 and teaching them computer programming skills.
“We`re creating an army of women computer coders who spark social change across Zimbabwe – and help tackle problems,” she says.
The former Africa Union Youth Ambassador is not frightened...
Megan Gieske is a storyteller and photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa.
In Morocco, high in the Atlas mountains, a group of women is active in their own personal and professional development. Here, at rug company Illuminate Collective, the mainly female team works towards the goals of preserving Moroccan art, culture, and people.
Rugs are a tradition hundreds of years old in Morocco. Today, they’re dyed with color worthy of Chefchaouen, “The Blue City” of Morocco. Their modern design can...
By Tichaona Jongwe. Photos courtesy of Role Model Caregivers.
In Niger state, malaria is so endemic that, on World Malaria Day in 2016, State Commissioner of Health Dr. Jibril Mustapha revealed that the disease kills 19,500 children under the age of 5 in the state every year. But a small group of unpaid heroes is working to become a vanguard against the disease’s spread.
The group, called Role Model Caregivers (RMC), are paid nothing but a small transport stipend. Together, they...
On April 19, former President George W. Bush presented ONE co-founder Bono with the first-ever George W. Bush Medal for Distinguished Leadership at an event in Dallas, Texas.
While widely viewed as strange bedfellows, Bono and President Bush have worked closely together for years in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
During a visit to the White House in 2002, Bono lobbied the president to lend financial support to organizations that were fighting the AIDS crisis in developing nations. President Bush soon launched PEPFAR...