ONE Campaign for Haiti
After Haiti’s devastating earthquake, a number of countries promised reconstruction aid to the victimized nation. Now, six months later, only four countries have delivered on the promised aid. The ONE campaign is now asking you to request world leaders to deliver their promise to Haiti.
ONE is a campaign and advocacy organization which collaborates with many of the leading non-profit, advocacy and humanitarian organizations to achieve change through advocacy, engaging policy experts, African leaders, and anti-poverty activists. Also on the agenda is better development policies, more transparency in government, effective aid and trade reform. ONE identifies critical moments when public support can turn the tide on behalf of the world’s poor and then work to empower people to act. Their point of view is that the fight against poverty is about justice and equality, rather than charity.
ONE saw the light of day in 2004, as DATA, a new advocacy organization created by Jubilee “Drop the Debt” movement collaborators Bono, Bob Geldof, Bobby Shriver, Jamie Drummond and Lucy Matthew, joined ten other leading anti-poverty organizations in launching a campaign against extreme poverty and preventable global disease. The campaign ONE quickly grew into a powerful, grassroots political force, signing up more than 2 million members in less than a year. Kick-starting at the 2005 G8 Summit in Gleneagles, the campaign demanded a new initiative to fight African poverty, which resulted in a pledge by the G8 countries to give an additional $25 billion to Africa by 2010. In 2008, ONE and DATA merged together under the name ONE.
The organization reaches out on multiple levels, creating online petitions as well as launching high-profile events. Present and past campaigns of ONE can be found here, and here is a list of pressing international issues on the agenda right now.





