ONEXONE focuses on the 5 sectors they believe create the totality of a child's overall wellbeing; including Water, Hunger, Healthcare, Education and Play. Through this concentration they endeavor to improve the health, wellness and vitality of the world's children - one by one.
ONEXONE works closely in partnership with carefully selected local organizations on the ground in each area of focus around the globe. Together with these partner organizations they implement and operate a variety of charitable programs and initiatives that align with their ultimate goal to alleviate suffering and preserve the lives of children the world over.
ONEXONE is committed to supporting, preserving and improving the lives of children at home in the U.S., Canada and around the world. Through its ongoing campaigns, ONEXONE is dedicated to helping create a world where children can live safely and with dignity:
-Every child has clean water to drink.
-Enough food to eat.
-Where no child suffers or succumbs to illness due to improper or insufficient medical care.
-Where school and learning are a right and not a privilege.
-Where every kid has the chance to just be a kid.
ONEXONE's mission is to preserve a basic quality of life for children locally and globally: because Hope Belongs to Everyone. ONEXONE firmly believes we all can make a difference, and working together we can change children's lives around the globe - one by one.
WATER - ONEXONE just recently renewed their commitment to this very important cause at the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative, announcing the launch of a $1 million project with their partner non-profit organization Water.org that will reach 55,000 more people in Africa with clean water, improving the health and lives of children, families, and communities.
HUNGER - ONEXONE realizes it is crucial to address the hunger issue because its effects are so devastating to the development of a healthy child during critical periods of growth. Nutrition is a critical component to a healthy life. Hunger negatively impacts school performance and academic achievement, and overall behavioral and cognitive development.
HEALTH CARE - ONEXONE works with a variety of important health care initiatives, and currently at the forefront is the development of a new program to provide much-needed Patient Care & Physician Training in Pediatric Cardiology in Rwanda.
EDUCATION - The most exemplary demonstration of ONEXONE's work with education can be found in the Millennium Villages they fund in Mayange, Rwanda (40 km from Kigali, population 20,000) and Toya, Mali (30 km from Timbuktu, population 5,000), established under the leadership of our partner Millennium Promise. While their academic school programs are excellent, the Millennium Villages serve to show that education isn't just bound to the classroom. Rather, education is the backbone of the fundamental structural development of these communities, and is carried out each day both in infrastructure and in action. Here, education is a way of life.
PLAY - Play is at the very crux of what they do at ONEXONE: It's about allowing kids the chance to just be kids! Play is what happens when a child isn't worrying about where his next meal is coming from, or when a young girl isn't spending hours out of each day collecting clean water for her household. A simple game of catch or scoring a goal in a soccer match; these precious moments of joy capture what it is to enjoy childhood, to experience just being a kid.
The Boedecker Foundation supports ONEXONE's mission is to preserve a basic quality of life for children locally and globally: because hope belongs to everyone.