Recovery and Reconciliation in Child-Friendly Spaces
Fifteen-year-old Sandy is very articulate about her experiences, and she isn't afraid to voice them.
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Getting children back to school in Haiti
Amid the devastation of Haiti's cities and towns, the simple act of going to school provides children with comfort and a sense of security, helping them overcome difficult experiences.
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Bringing Mothers Together for Newborn Nutritional Training
Sitting in front and demonstrating the breastfeeding skills she learned in similar classes, Lovely proudly shares her learning.
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Rachel Palmer, Information and Communications Officer in Niger
After some negotiation with my manager and a hectic week tying up work projects and making sure my husband was going to be ok for the two months I would be away I got on a plane to Niger.
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Mariama's story
On 27 April 2010, Mariama's 18-month-old baby, Salaha, was referred to a stabilisation unit that Save the Children supports.
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Marie-Ange's story
Save the Children has helped reunite a 9-year-old girl, who survived Haiti’s massive earthquake, domestic servitude and a stampede, with the mother who believed her dead.
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Joyce's story
The lanslides that buried part of Eastern Uganda have left 300 people still unnaccounted for. Joyce Nandala's parents are amongst them. Save the Children in Uganda has a family re-unifying tracking system and, if all goes well, Joyce will soon be with her family again.
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Leka's story
Leka is one of the 49% of children who's never been to school in Haiti. Now she is attending classes in the first temporary school Save the Children set up after the earthquake.
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Jimmy's story
Jimmy is going back to classes in the first temporary school Save the Children set up in Haiti after the eartquake.
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Micheka's story
She goes to one of our Child-Friendly Spaces, which was set up in Port-au-Prince shortly after the earthquake. These programs provide Micheka and thousands of other children with a place to play and just be children for a while.
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Marie Anne's story
Since the earthquake hit Haiti, Marie Anne has been living in a rudimentary shelter made of a single bed sheet strung between four wooden poles. Now she sleeps with her seven children and grandchildren under a tarpaulin distributed by Save the Children.
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Reginal's story
Reginal is 9 months old and is being taken to a Save the Children health clinic for scabies, a contagious skin infection caused by a tiny mite that burrows under the skin. It is common for scabies to spread in crowded camp situations like the ones in Haiti.
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Davidson's story
Little Davidson has a serious contagious skin infection caused by a tiny mite that burrows under the skin. He is being treated by a local doctor who received training by Save the Children to work as part of the emergency mobile units they have deployed in Haiti.
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Rebeca's story
Rebeca has been taken to Save the Children clinic to receive dietary supplements. She also has malaria, which is getting more and more common in the camps.
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A Fierce Rain in Port-au-Prince
It’s the middle of the night and outside a fierce rain has whipped up in Port au Prince.
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Sophia's story
Sophia (23) is nine months pregnant and camping in the open air near Theatre National in Port-au-Prince, where Save the Children has a medical center.
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Daniel's story
A group of around 15 children live on the street opposite the collapsed presidential palace. Several lost both parents in the earthquake. They sleep, find food and spend their days together. The youngest is Daniel, age 13.
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Naomi's story
Naomi gave birth to her son Andgi Carvan on January 26th. They live in a small tent in what was a private park before the earthquake, but is now home to hundreds of families.
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Kathryn Bolles, Save the Children's Emergency Health and Nutrition Director
Kathryn Bolles tells us how songs can help to save children in Haiti
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Jasmine Whitbread, CEO of Save The Children UK
Jasmine Whitbread blogging from the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.
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Mirlene's story
With people still trapped under the rubble after January 12's earthquake, a new aftershock struck Haiti on January 20. Those who have survived are living in make-shift camps being treated or waiting for aid supplies, like Mirlene.
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Angelo's story
Ten of thousands have died or lost their homes due to the earthquake in Haiti. Angelo is one of the children living in shift-made camps who will benefit from the Child-Friendly Spaces Save the Children is implementing.
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Winnie's story
Although the earthquake in Haiti changed the lives of 1.8 million people, there is space for little miracles.
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Francina's story
The earthquake that flattened much of Port-au-Prince affected over 1 million of children.
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Chris McIvor, Advocacy and Programme Development Director in Mozambique
In any given week in any rural village in Mozambique, it is highly likely that one will come across the funeral of a recently deceased member of the community.
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Mary Beth Powers, Vice-Chair, EVERY ONE Campaign, Save the Children US
I recently had the chance to travel to Guatemala to see firsthand the life saving work that is happening thanks to Save the Children's efforts.
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Ben Hewitt, Project Director, Newborn and Child Survival, Save the Children, India.
India has seen vast economic growth over the last ten years but remains home to one-third of the world's undernourished children.
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Ben Phillips, Strategy Director for Asia, Save the Children UK
Asia has been celebrated for its impressive economic growth in recent years. But millions of Asian children...will not even live to see 2015.
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Rina and Mustafa's Story
Save the Children helps separated families reunite after natural disasters strike
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Soren Pedersen's Blog
"Similar NGOs can really have more impact if they join together"
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Salimatu's story
Increasing malaria rates result in the death of children whose parents are unable to afford healthcare.
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Nyi Lay's story
When disasters strike without warning, children and their families have little time to escape to safety.
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Hadis's story
His struggle to survive after his family was displaced due to a climate related disaster in Bangladesh.
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Addis, Maritu, Adna and Tiru's story
Their struggle with soaring grain prices and drought
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Helping Gaza's Youngest Children
Haijar’s name comes from the Arabic for “refuge.”
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A Zimbabwean Hero
Nomota has lost his parents to AIDs. Now he is responsible for his many siblings
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Josephine and Richard
Josephine is one of the many children in Zimbabwe who care for their siblings after their parents have gone.
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A child alone
Ten-year-old Gasiwga fled from home, about 35km from Goma, with his father. Gaswiga is now alone since his mother, father and five siblings have died. He is being helped by another family staying in Goma.
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Former child soldiers
David and Gerard were abducted as they walked home from school near their village.
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Education after the Eartquake
Three individuals refect upon how Save the Children commitment to Education in Emergencies has changed their lives
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• Xu Kesheng is a maths teacher and a Save the Children volunteer
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Min Min returns to school
Through the generosity of our donors, Save the Children is able to provide the opportunity for children like Min Min to return to their education, despite the hardships caused by Cyclone Nargis.
Dealing with the aftermath of the China Earthquake
• Three-year-old Pu Ben's story
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Psycho-social care for the children affected by the earthquake in China
Save the Children has recently sent Anne-Sophie Dybdahl, a Danish psychologist, to China to help the children who lived through the devastating earthquake. Follow her reports here.
Reactions in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma)
• A Save the Children staff member's diary
• Children's stories
• One family's struggle
Kenyan Violence
• Life in Kenyan Camps: Jane Njeri's Story
• Life in Kenyan Camps: Maria Nahuka's Story
• An aid worker's diary: Kenyan children bear the brunt of violence in Kenya
• Life in Kenyan Camps: Naomi Wanjiru Waraga's Story
Mozambique Floods: Voices from the field
By Chris McIvor, January 2008, Programme Director for Save the Children UK in Mozambique
• Is two bad years in a row impossible?
• Why are there so many emergencies in Mozambique?
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Tale from a tattered family
Survivors of Cyclone Sidr, December 2007.
Read about how the children in one family are piecing their lives back together.
Surviving Cyclone Sidr: Coping with the storm
A cyclone survivor's story, November 2007.
Read the story of Salma, a mother with four small children.
Surviving Cyclone Sidr
A Child survivor's story, November 2007.
Read the story of Nazma, 12, who survived Cyclone Sidr.
Cyclone Sidr: Live from the Scene
Blog entry, November 2007.
From David Wightwick, Save the Children's Emergencies Adviser in Bangladesh.
Josie in Liberia
Josie's blog, October 2007.
Josie Cohen, campaigner for Rewrite the Future, writes about her trip to Liberia.
Mimi in Angola
Tales from Angola by Save the Children Denmark CEO Mimi Jakobsen
• The root of all good June 2007
• Can boys be witches? June 2007
• Dressed as a gentleman June 2007
Jiffer in Afghanistan
Life in Afghanistan by Save the Children staff member Jiffer Bourguignon
• An introduction to 'Rewrite the Future' in Afghanistan December 2006
• 'It's just too cold to fight' January 2007
• The Shamali Valley March 2007