ONE Petition: What Will the Candidates Say About the Fight Against Extreme Poverty

Please sign the ONE Petition asking President Obama and Governor Romney, "What are your plans to fight extreme poverty if you win on November 6"?

If they are elected will they continue America’s legacy of leadership on worldwide issues of extreme poverty, hunger, HIV/AIDS and access to childhood vaccinations? With only less than 80 days until the election, we need to know.

Please go to ONE and sign the Petition TODAY! 

Source: ONE

World Mosquito Day 2012

Malaria No More UK has an interactive infographic called Mozzy Air! It features countries affected by malaria past and present and personal stories and facts from ten countries. Check them out below or on Malaria No More UK: http://malarianomore.org.uk/world-mosquito-day

MALARIA FACTS:

1. Worldwide there are 216 million cases of malaria every year.

2. Sleeping under a mosquito net saves lives – nets cut malaria cases in children by half and reduce child deaths by 20%.

3. 485 children’s lives are saved every day through malaria prevention measures such as mosquito nets, the spraying of insecticide in homes and education on malaria.

4. Malaria affects almost half of the world’s population.

5. Malaria is a preventable and treatable disease – every life lost is needless.

6. Every year, over 655,000 people die from malaria, over 90% of these deaths are in Africa.

7. A child dies from malaria every minute.

8. Malaria costs Africa more than £8 billion annually in lost productivity.

9. Deaths from malaria have fallen by 26% since 2000.

Source: Malaria No More UK

UNICEF USA: Achieving Zero - 21,000 #GlobalCitizen

Every day, nearly 21,000 children die—and they don't have to. They die from causes most people in the U.S. rarely worry about. Malnutrition. Unsafe drinking water. Lack of an affordable vaccine. UNICEF is doing whatever it takes to reduce child mortality and reach a day when the number of children dying from preventable causes is not 21,000—it is zero.

Source: Global Citizen a website and app that revolves around a simple premise: that every person can play a role in realizing the end of extreme poverty. Put simply, we want to help you find effective and relevant ways to create change, as individuals and as a community.