As featured on the White House Blog On Wednesday, October 25th, Mom Bloggers from the ONE campaign came to the White House to meet with Dr. Jill Biden, Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and Gayle Smith, Special Assistant and Senior Director for Development and Democracy in the [...]
Tag archives for Horn of Africa
For the Hungry, Raising Awareness = Action. We are the Relief.
Share Hope by Helping Us Reach 13 Million Forwards
Right now, 13.3 million people are in need of emergency assistance in the Horn of Africa, more than the populations of New York and Los Angeles combined. To help raise awareness, we have dedicated today – Wednesday, November 9th – FWD>Day. Today, we want to help 13.3 million people forward facts about the crisis to [...]
FWD: USAID’s First-Ever Public Awareness Campaign
When Early Interventions Make All the Difference
Pictures that Tell the Story for Us
Our new FWD public awareness campaign tells the story about the crisis in the Horn of Africa through sharable info-graphics, public service announcements, interactive maps, and toolkits. Through these interactive features we invite people to engage in the campaign rather than be recipients of static information. Another way to tell the story of the crisis [...]
FWD the Facts: New Public Awareness Videos
One month after USAID announced the FWD (famine, war, and drought) public awareness campaign at the Social Good summit, we are officially launching the campaign across the country though celebrity public service announcements (PSAs) developed with the Ad Council. You will likely start seeing these PSAs on television, but we wanted you to see one [...]
Open for Questions: Crisis in the Horn of Africa
This post originally appeared on the White House Blog. Over the past several months, the worst humanitarian crisis in the world has placed more than 13.3 million people across the Horn of Africa at risk – a greater number than the populations of New York and Los Angeles combined. Quickly becoming incomprehensible, the emergency has [...]
Blog Action Day: Highlighting the Devastating Crisis in the Horn of Africa
Ed note: This post originally appeared on the White House Blog. As part of Blog Action Day, the White House’s Courtney O’Donnell, who traveled to refugee camps in Kenya this summer with Dr Jill Biden, reflects on how we can all make a difference in the lives of those suffering in the Horn of Africa. [...]
