In order to create a better tomorrow, work must be done today, and ONE’s Champions do just that. Our Champions work to achieve ONE’s mission of ensuring that everyone, everywhere can live a life of dignity and opportunity. As global activists, our Champions are a vibrant group of volunteers who support ONE’s advocacy work through recruiting, lobbying, and supporting the ONE mission. To grow that amazing team, we extended our Champions program to Senegal and Mali in 2019 and...
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“It is our responsibility to prepare children to take on future challenges with knowledge, integrity, and care,” Alexandra, a ONE youth ambassador from Italy, believes. That’s why investing in and preparing future generations now is the key to creating a better future for everyone, regardless of age, around the world.
World Children’s Day does just that by promoting children’s rights. Having started in 1954, every year on 20 November the world comes together “to promote international togetherness, awareness among children...
ONE Champion Hewan Goitom Berhane shares how today’s youth can use history to create a dialogue for a more inclusive Ethiopia in the future.
“Where did we go wrong?’’ In the midst of this crisis in Ethiopia I find myself asking this question. I also wonder how we can turn back the clock and go back to how it used to be. We cannot go back to “How it used to be.’’ But then another reality hits me — was...
ONE Champion Stephanie Kusa shares some key takeaways from a special webinar hosted by fellow champions on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
Every year, the world marks the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October. To commemorate this day, ONE Champions from Nigeria, Kenya, and Ethiopia collaborated to host a webinar. They focused on the progress made in Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1) which is one of the 17 goals established by the...
The world is racing to find safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19, and world leaders are making deals for promising COVID-19 vaccine candidates and speaking about the need for vaccine equity. As this happens, we want them to know that we’re watching. That’s why in September, ONE launched the Vaccine Access Test.
The Test provides the framework to answer one question: Are the actions taken by world leaders and players moving us closer to or further from an equitable outcome...
Last week, G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors decided to extend the debt service suspension initiative (DSSI) until the end of June 2021, accepting that more must be done to help the world’s most vulnerable countries. They also agreed to a new initiative that would go further on debt relief – including by bringing private-sector creditors into the fold.
The World Bank also announced that it will consider providing more emergency COVID-19 relief, although, unfortunately, it would not suspend...
Francis Musyoka, a ONE EA Champion in Kenya, is sharing why empowering girls in Kilifi County, Kenya is important and the steps local leaders can take to do so.
The issue of gender equality and women’s empowerment has been a top agenda for countries and leaders across the globe. Whilst gender inequality is widespread, organizations such as ONE are fighting to ensure that the world understands the importance of promoting the girl-child in the socio-economic world and take action.
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COVID-19 has presented many new social and economic challenges, and is exacerbating already existing ones. One such challenge is global poverty. Right now over 700 million people live in extreme poverty worldwide, which is defined as living on less than US$1.90 per person per day.
Right now, the pandemic is threatening to push up to 115 million people into poverty in 2020 alone. That would raise global totals significantly.
As we mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on...
The Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC) has won the 2020 ONE Award, which celebrates African efforts aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the world’s blueprint for a better future. Established in Nigeria in 2003, this NGO aims to increase citizen participation in governance processes with a focus on improving the integrity of the public and private sectors.
Motivated by the desire to have a more transparent and accountable government, PPDC focuses on improvements to primary healthcare, primary...
Megan Gieske is a storyteller and photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa.
On Steve Biko Street, taxi horns blare and horse carts trot down Gugulethu’s busy main road. But over a high wall, a woman has grown an oasis of green in the highly-developed, urban landscape of Gugulethu, where almost 100,000 share just 6.42²km (or 2.5² miles) of land.
It’s here in Gugulethu where Nomonde Kweza, or “Mama Nomonde,” is reclaiming her agricultural heritage, and teaching her community to support...