By Imani LaTortue, ONE Digital Intern While the world can sometimes feel like a gloomy place, there are some amazing people and causes that balance out the bad with some really incredible GOOD. We believe it’s important to utilize our talents and passions to help the world around us. That’s why we wanted to spotlight just a few of the many, many organizations dedicated to doing just that: Solar Sister Solar Sister is an organization that helps support women...
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130 million girls didn’t go to school today— not because they didn’t want to, but because they weren’t given the chance.
There are dire consequences to not educating girls. In many countries, girls out of school will be more likely to become child brides, more vulnerable to diseases like HIV, and more likely to die young. For example, if current trends in education continue, by 2050, this is the future we’re looking at: Low-income countries alone will lose $1.8 trillion;...
Earlier this year, ONE’s co-founder Bono was honored by Skoll Foundation with the Skoll Global Treasure Award in recognition of social entrepreneurship on a global scale. (Previous recipients have included Muhammad Yunus, Graça Machel, Archbishop Tutu, Malala Yousafzai, and the Dalai Lama!)
As part of the honor, Skoll and ONE produced a video with some of Bono’s thoughts on activism, commerce, and politics—and the role each of those things can play in the fight against poverty.
Watch the full video below:
This post originally appeared on Global Citizen.
In the last 500 years, a certain kind of map has been used to teach children about our planet. But public schools in Boston have made a big change — and it might alter the way you think about the world.
It’s about power.
Most might recognize the old map from faded school textbooks. It’s called the Mercator projection. In 1569, Gerardus Mercator built a whole world drawn along colonial lines — literally. The biggest economic powers were given...
Nowhere on earth do women have as many opportunities as men. Nowhere. But for girls and women in the poorest countries, that inequality is amplified. Right now, there are over 130 million girls around the world being denied an education — and thus the chance to reach their full potential.
Educate a girl in one of the world’s poorest countries, and it boosts her health, wealth, and ability to take control of her life. She’s less likely to become a...
Educating girls can change the world.
Girls who get a complete, quality education are more likely to be healthier and better prepared to enter and succeed in the workforce. Education can give girls more opportunities to advocate for their own rights, contribute to their families and communities, and grow local and global economies.
But over 130 million girls didn’t go to school today. Millions more braved long distances, often in dangerous conditions, to get there. Other girls arrived at school to...
This post by Meagan Neal, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), is the second post in a blog series on overcoming barriers to girls’ education, based on J-PAL’s new synthesis of the evidence on improving student enrollment and attendance. Read the first post summarizing these barriers here.
In 2007, Afghanistan’s rural province of Ghor faced low primary school enrollment and a dramatic gender gap: Only 35 percent of boys and 18 percent of girls were attending school. School...
By Imani LaTortue, ONE Digital Intern The continent of Africa is filled with a wide array of beautiful countries—all with even more amazing cuisine. There are plenty of options: from salty to sweet, numerous consistencies, meat-filled dishes, and options for vegetarians. Here are five African foods that you should have on the menu in your home or even try the next time that you eat out: Jollof Rice Photo credit: Ask4ugo/Wikimedia Commons As one of the most...
As you may know, ONE is a supporter and advocate of the Global Fund, an organization designed to accelerate the end of diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as an epidemic.
On a recent trip to Marrakech, Morocco, a few ONE staff members and I had the opportunity to visit the Oudaya prison, located about 20 kilometers from Marrakech. While there, we saw first-hand how the investments of the Global Fund support TB and HIV programs for prisoners, which...
When Innocent fled his native Democratic Republic of the Congo and arrived in the Kakuma refugee camp in 2009, he felt as if he couldn’t have been any further from the rest of the world.
Kakuma is a sprawling settlement in a remote and arid part of northwestern Kenya, and its inhabitants — refugees from DRC, Somalia, Burundi, Ethiopia, and other countries — have little access to higher education, business opportunities, job markets, and healthcare.
For a while, like many others...