Tag: "Clean Water"

Uganda was filled with laughter.

Laughter. My time in Uganda was filled with laughter. We laughed when we saw each other in the morning, when we told stories, when we walked through villages, when we shared tea, and simply at a funny look. In a moment there is laughter. Contagious laughter. So beautiful; I wish I could bottle it up and take it home. I once got an email from a colleague listening to my laughter through our shared wall that was titled, “I love your laughter.” She would have loved to have been in Uganda with me where laughter is sometimes found in the unlikeliest of things.
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Oct 16, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

The buzz about tonight’s Ugly Betty

Remember to tune in to the season premiere of “Ugly Betty” tonight at 8 PM EST on ABC. The episode will feature Nothing But Nets and a plot-line involving the eradication of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Here’s a short interview with America Ferrera on this morning’s Good Morning America discussing the season premiere and Nothing But Nets. [...]

Oct 16, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

October is Fair Trade Month

Check out this post from our partner organization TransFair USA about Fair Trade Month in October.
Every October, we launch a month-long campaign to promote awareness and sales of Fair Trade Certified™ products. This year’s theme, 31 Days 31 Ways, offers opportunities to make every October day a Fair Trade day. Each day you can learn [...]

Oct 16, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Blog Action Day Round-Up

The ONE Blog was just one of thousands of blogs all over the world participating in Blog Action Day ‘09 today. As you know, this year’s common theme was climate change.
Here are a few other posts I came across. I’m sure I missed quite a few, so please feel free to share your [...]

Oct 15, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Wash your hands and sing the Happy Birthday song!

Today is Global Handwashing Day. And even in America, with soap and safe water easily accessible, it never hurts to remind everyone to do what mom used to say: wash your hands with soap. Even Elmo is on board, teaching kids to wash their hands often, for 20 seconds, with soap, while singing [...]

Oct 15, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

How to Make the Porridge

Check out this post from our partner organization Save the Children, the first partner post in our Food Security in Focus series. This post focuses on how proper nutrition, particularly for children, is an essential component to achieving food security. Stay tuned to the blog for more entries over the coming month.
-Kara Arsenault
Today is [...]

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Ever seen a human-sized vector?

On Tuesday night, ONE staff joined a gigantic malaria vector to enjoy a “mosquito mojito” and to support United Against Malaria in kicking malaria out of Africa.

United Against Malaria is a partnership of NGOs, footballers, governments, corporations, foundations, and individuals who are joining forces to fight malaria in the lead-up to the 2010 World [...]

Oct 15, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

High Five

Happy Blog Action Day! As we told you earlier in the week, over 8,700 blogs around the world are taking part by devoting space to discussing climate change. Arjun Mody offers this great recap about our Climate Campaign:
Over the past several weeks, about 55,000 ONE members raised their hands, and asked their Senators [...]

Oct 15, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Food Security in Focus

Keep an eye out this month for posts about food security and agriculture as part of our Food Security in Focus series. Food security and agriculture have been pushed to the forefront of the global agenda, and we’d like to make sure they stay there. Now’s your chance to learn more about what’s happening in [...]

Oct 14, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Any math whizzes out there?

What does S.1524 + 15 equal? Momentum.
We’re happy to announce the Foreign Assistance Revitalization and Accountability Act (S.1524) now has 15 cosponsors in the Senate. ONE is building support for this important legislation with our Upgrade Aid petition– now over 40,000 strong!
Full list of cosponsors below. Please sing the Upgrade Aid petition [...]

Oct 14, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

ONE + You = Third Day Concert

This Saturday, October 17th, multiplatinum selling band Third Day will be performing at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. The band has generously offered to let ONE set up booths to sign up new ONE members and build our growing movement of dedicated individuals like you, working to end global poverty.
If you live in the [...]

Oct 14, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

ONE takes a Field trip

In August, ONE partnered with The Field Museum and hosted Sen. Durbin on a rally around the Water for All Act.
Recently, ONE again joined with The Field Museum to host the Millennium Challenge Corporation and spotlight their compacts that work on clean water in impoverished nations around the world. Most ONE members are very [...]

Oct 14, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

What’s bread got to do with it?

A lot, actually. Malnutrition is a problem that affects billions of people all over the world. The Living Proof Project shines a spotlight on the issue by highlighting some of the great advances in food fortification.
Food fortification adds essential vitamins and minerals to foods, as an important strategy to fight malnutrition. And [...]

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Does trade improve the quality of jobs in poor countries?

Apparently not, according to the new report from the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The surge in global trade over the last two decades has failed to improve working conditions and living standards in many developing countries. Although trade has contributed to growth and development worldwide, many of the [...]

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What We’re Reading 10/14/09

Bloomberg.com: Women Key to Solving Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, Study Says
According to the International Food Policy Research Institute, expanding aid and education for women is essential to reducing hunger in the world’s most impoverished regions. Countries that scored worst on the group’s Global Hunger Index tend to have the greatest gender inequality, the institute said [...]

Oct 14, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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