May 2011
20 posts
“G8 Pledges $20 Billion to
Sub-Saharan Africa
+ Egypt + Tunisia”
– http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/05/27/G8-pledges-aid-to-Arabs-and-Africa/UPI-91481306498804/?spt=hs&or=tn
OSU Human Rights Day
A guest post from Kara Ford:
On Friday May 20th, STAND, Oxfam, Project Nur, and ONE hosted the 2nd annual Human Rights Day at The Ohio State University. To begin with our clubs tabled outside of one of our libraries to raise awareness about various human rights issues. ONE members got new petition signers for the vaccine petition.
Later in the day we had two faculty speakers come to lecture...
“Seeds of Change: Sowing “Nzara Yapera*”
The selling and planting of...”
Promising News on World AIDS Vaccine Day
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has promising news:
“Over the past three extraordinary decades, we have faced the daunting challenge of developing an effective biomedical tool to prevent HIV infection, particularly an AIDS vaccine…If that once seemed nearly impossible, it no longer does, thanks to a series of significant scientific advances over the past two years....
DATA Report 2011: Living Proof in Numbers →
Also — check out how much Americans give on a per-capita basis in comparison to other people around the world: http://one.org/data/en/data/oda-global-pc/
Ushering in a "Decade of Vaccines" →
“Bill Gates wants YOU to show how small farmers are game-changers in the...”
A $hot in the Arm = A $hot of Expresso →
For many of us coffee-addicts, putting down $3 a day (okay, maybe more like $9+ a day during finals week) to get our caffeine-kick is totally worth the money to get through however many hours we need to stay awake for.
But did you know that the amount you spend on coffee every day is equal to the cost of purchasing vaccines for several children? While your drink merely helps you get through the...
From Paris, with Generosity
For Togo and Guinea Bissau, this past week has ushered in a brief period of Jubilee*.
On Tuesday, the Paris Club decided to cancel $256 million of Guinea Bissau’s debt. On Wednesday, France decided to cancel all of Togo’s debt, for a total of $143.1 million forgiven.
The reason? Togo and Bissau have both made significant strides toward economic reform and poverty reduction within...
Sure, Your iPhone is Cool and All, But Can It... →
WatchThe Growth of Leadership in Kibera
“Talent is universal; opportunity is not.” That’s what Rye Barcott, former marine, co-founder of Carolina for Kibera, and author of newly released book It Happened on the Way to War, calls a fundamental truth of life.
With this in mind, CFK was established to create opportunities for the residents of Kibera, Africa’s largest slum, to...
“Excerpt from
“Medicine Serves as a Currency of Peace”:
“A...”
We asked. You answered.
The ONE Campaign at Ohio State has it’s own Twitter account (http://www.twitter.com/#!/ONEcampaignOSU). And we decided to ask out followers the following question: What poverty-related issue is closest to your heart?
My answer was: Education. I believe the world’s poor want an opportunity to work their way out of poverty, not to rely on charity. Other answers included HIV/AIDS,...
“If a picture’s worth a 1,000 words,
then a comic book must be worth...”
Swatting Back - Halting the Advance of Malaria
“…global deaths from malaria have fallen from nearly a million a year in 2000 to 781,000 in 2009. But even while we mark what may be a turning point in our effort to eradicate the disease, we cannot overestimate our progress. It is fragile.”
Read the full TIME article here.
