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G20 leaders are meeting later this week in Cannes and ONE teamed up with the City of Paris to send them a message as the square of the Paris Town Hall was plunged in complete darkness while ONE’s “F-Famine” and “A future without famine” videos were projected onto the wall of the Town Hall. From the article published on ONE’s Blog: On the eve of the G20 summit in Cannes, hundreds of members of ONE, along with a few celebrities including ...

Mother’s Day is an annual holiday that recognizes mothers, motherhood and maternal bonds in general, as well the positive contributions that they make to society. In the United States, it is celebrated on the second Sunday in May (May 8 this year) but in Norway it was celebrated in February, in France it will be on May 30, in Indonesia in December… Every country its own date to celebrate Mothers. So we decided to celebrate Mother’s Day ...

March 22 was World Water Day and if you are still not aware about what this day is about (even though it’s clearly self explanatory), then you should know that water affects every aspect of our lives, yet nearly one billion people around the world don’t have clean drinking water, and 2.6 billion still lack basic sanitation. World Water Day, celebrated annually on March 22, was established by the United Nations in 1992 and focuses attention on ...

  This is an initiative we want to support because it has a meaning and it’s interactive: every year, ONE hosts the ONE Campus Challenge (OCC), a friendly competition to determine which university’s student body has the most effective global poverty-fighting campaign (read more here).   OCC asked more than 2,000 colleges and universities across the country to make 90-second video messages to their senators. Their judging panel narrowed it ...