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The U.N. Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is less than two weeks away, so what better way to jump into the issues than by – hmm – reading up on them?
This week, Melinda French Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is blogging about the MDGs in advance of their TEDxChange event, which looks into the future of global health and development.

Brandon with Rep. Joe Wilson and others

Instead of attending my lecture and turning in a paper last Monday — I was in a meeting with Rep. Joe Wilson, (R-S.C.).

Please welcome Todd Summers to the blog. He’s ONE’s new senior adviser for global health and we’re excited to have him!

A month since the onset of the floods in Pakistan, 2.3 million children under the age of 5 have not been reached with critical and lifesaving assistance, Save the Children reports today.

Please welcome Brooke Riley to the ONE Blog. She is our policy team’s most recent addition and will be assisting with global health research.

ONE is hitting the campaign trail to find out where candidates stand on extreme poverty. Stay tuned for more updates like these from our field team and organizers on the road.

In the lead-up to TEDxChange, a TED event focused on the progress made in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, Melinda Gates blogged about our work on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation site.

ONE members across the country have been busy engaging their respective congressman and senators during the August recess.
Maryland ONE member Nancy Kobel put forth a strong effort to meet with her congressman, Rep. John Sarbanes, (D-Md.), to let him know that she and her fellow constituents care about fighting extreme poverty and preventable disease.

From time to time, our members and field organizers let us in on what they’re doing in their local faith congregations to fight against extreme poverty. If you’d like to conduct a ONE Sabbath service and mobilize your faith group to take action on the Global Fund petition, email faith@one.org.