Shotokan Karate Cup - Vojvodina - Feketic 2015 - KFV - SKSS - Two gold one silver medal!

Ifj. Margit Zoltán - Bácsfeketehegyen megrendezett Vajdasági Karate kupán: egyéni kata - első hely, csapat harc - első hely és egyéni harc - második hely!

Zoltan Margit mlađi na kupu Vojvodine, održano u Feketiću KFV - SKSS: u kati: zlatna medalja, u ekipnoj borbi: zlatna medalja, u borbi: srebrna medalja!

Zoltan Margit Jr. -  Karate Cup Vojvodina - Feketic 2015: individual kata - first place, team fight - first place and individual competition - second place!

New Year’s message

Dear Zoltan,

My name is Eva, I’m 14 and live in Malinzanga, Tanzania. I want to wish you a Happy New Year, and ask you if you’ll do something amazing with me in 2015.

This year I finished my primary education at Mlowa School. It’s not been easy - my parents have not always been able to pay for my uniform and textbooks - but I did it and I’m really proud.

My hope for 2015 is to start secondary school, so I can one day get my dream job as a policewoman and take care of my community. It’s harder for girls to stay in school here, but I’m going to do everything I can to make it happen.

I was born in 2000, the same year the Millennium Development Goals were set. During my lifetime, the number of people in the world who are extremely poor has dropped a lot.

In my village some people now have mobile phones so know what’s going on in other places. New schools have been built so more of us are getting an education, but I’m lucky. Children from the poorest families or who have disabilities are not going to school. I see this and it makes me sad.

This year, as I turn 15, our leaders will agree a new plan for a better world. If they make it really good, and then actually stick to it, there could be almost no extremely poor people - anywhere - by the time I am 30. How cool would that be?

This is what I wanted to ask you about. Will you help make sure the new development plan is really great, and leaves no-one out?

Like me and more than 6 million others, you’re already a ONE member. Together we need to do more than ever before to build a better world - and demand better from our leaders.

Share my New Year’s message and find out how you can do more this year.

Thank you and Happy New Year,

Eva Tolange, 14, Tanzania

the Trillion Dollar scandal

Dear Zoltan,

Over the last few weeks, you've taken action to stop the Trillion Dollar Scandal that is depriving developing countries of this almost incomprehensible amount of money every year.

THANK YOU.

More than 86,000 people stood alongside you and signed our petition. And as world leaders headed to Australia last week for the G20 Summit, we made sure they got your message calling for new transparency laws to shine a light on the murky world of global corruption.

So did they do what you asked them to? A bit. But nowhere near enough.

Anonymous shell companies that allow criminals to hide their dirty money are a big part of the problem. Leaders did all sign up to some broad principles to make sure all companies reveal who owns them, which is a good step forward. But this information won't be made truly public for you or me to see, or even the governments of many developing countries either.

Over the years we've campaigned for more transparency in the oil and mining sector, and thanks to support from our members we've had real success. So it was disappointing to see the subject almost ignored by world leaders at this summit. Making sure the wealth that many developing countries have under the ground actually reaches the people who live above it, will help reduce poverty and allow families to build brighter futures.

Together we've pushed our leaders hard, and there is no doubt our voices have been heard. But we need more than a few rays of light to beat this global scandal. We need dazzling sunshine.

So what happens next? We will keep up the pressure on the leaders to do more, encouraging those that have made already some progress to lead the way for others. We'll need your help to do that, so we hope you'll stick this one out with us. We couldn't have made it this far without you.

We won't stop until there are no more dark corners for this Trillion Dollar Scandal to hide.

Thank you.

David McNair, ONE.org

p.s. You can read more about what world leaders did and didn't do to tackle corruption at the G20 Summit on the ONE blog.

ActionAid - Ebola door to door - OnE

I am sure you have heard about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, affecting Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea in particular. It's the worst outbreak ever recorded - more than 1,000 people have died.

These countries have some of the weakest health systems in the world. Not enough trained doctors and nurses. Clinics without enough supplies to diagnose and treat patients. Villages without running water or reliable electricity, compounding the crisis.

Just days ago, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global health emergency.

This crisis is showing just how important it is to have strong health systems in place. And it's why ONE members like you continue to fight for long-term investments in health.

We ask you to use the power of your voice at crucial moments when it's needed most, and together we've made incredible progress in the fight against extreme poverty.

In this case, governments and institutions around the world are beginning to step up, pledging resources in response to the World Health Organization's emergency appeal.

ONE members have asked us how to help. If our governments don't step up, we'll be calling on you to use your voice. In the meantime, many other organisations that deliver vital services are already in West Africa working hard to save lives and protect communities against Ebola. Find out what they are doing and how you can help.

Thank you

- ONE

A lot has changed in a decade

10 years ago, Facebook existed on a computer in a college dorm. There were no tweets, hashtags or iPhones. The only people occupying Wall Street wore suits and the Tea Party had a colonial Boston accent. And ONE was but a few.

It was started mainly because, truth be told, Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu asked us to. And really... who says no to the two of them?

What was needed, they felt, was a demonstration of support for the world’s poorest... citizens around the globe standing in solidarity with one another and calling on leaders to do more of what helped and less of what hurt the most vulnerable people on the planet.

And so, ONE was born.

A few of us gathered near the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to launch a campaign to lift millions out of poverty. We knew each person could make a difference, but we believed that if we worked together as ONE - we could change the world.

10 years later, I am blown away by what you've accomplished, by working together across continents and ideologies, and by holding tight to the belief that the fight against poverty isn’t about charity, but about justice and equality.

And you got busy. Watch this. Spread it. Share it. Pass it on.

Debt relief for dozens of countries in Africa that helped put an extra 54 million kids in school. Aid made more effective and accountable. Tough laws passed to help ensure the oil, gas and minerals under the ground in poor countries aren’t stolen from the people living above them. 7.5 million people in Africa are thriving on ARVs; malaria death rates have been cut in half in 13 countries across the continent. Political leaders from left, right and centre hit with calls, letters, town hall meetings and tweets and forced to take a stand on the fight against extreme poverty.

ONE’s tagline is one of the few things that has stayed the same: “We’re not asking for your money. We’re asking for your voice.” So today, ten years on, we want to thank you for using your voice - whether through a click, an email, a letter, a phone call, a conversation, a demonstration, a sit-in, a stand-up...

Your voices together - that has made all the difference.

Thank you.

Bono