Tuesday 13 July 2010 by Katy Webley
A right, a request and a responsibility — yet still too often ignored. Packed in a room at the Overseas Development Institute, the Humanitarian Practice Network and Save the Children hosted a vital debate on Education in Emergencies. Last year, over 2 million children were caught up in emergencies – floods, earthquakes, cyclones, conflict and drought. Their classrooms destroyed, teachers killed or fled, the year unfinished, their personal development interrupted.
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Tuesday 13 July 2010 by Sandy Biggar
It’s hard to believe that 6 months have passed since the earthquake in Haiti. Hard for a variety of reasons. Firstly, (apart from the sudden flurry of media attention inspired by the passing of an arbitrary period of time: 6 months), the collective suffering felt by Haitian people and the hard work of organisations like Save the Children have fallen off the radar of international media interest.
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Monday 12 July 2010 by Charlotte Balfour-Poole
Among the chaos and visible memories of the tragic events that will forever scar the Haitian people, life goes on. The true spirit of the Haitian people shines through.
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Monday 17 May 2010 by Stuart Bamforth
We’ve been working with a group of kids from Leogane this week. The children have all lost family and friends. Olwine is 13 years old. Her best friend died in her house when it collapsed. Nenel (17), lost 2 sisters and his little brother the same way.
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Tuesday 11 May 2010 by Stuart Bamforth
It’s 9 in the evening in Haiti — 3am in London — and we’re listening to BBC World Service political pundits counting in the votes in the UK general election.
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Monday 10 May 2010 by Stuart Bamforth
Anton the Indonesian engineer and Dr. Joseph conducted an assessment this morning of the flooded area next to our house in Haiti. The 1000-plus people living there had already been displaced in the big January earthquake, and were living in the temporary camps in tents.
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Sunday 9 May 2010 by Stuart Bamforth
I’m the second housemate to wake up this morning. I find Anton the genial Indonesian engineer fiddling with the TV. He tells me (as if I don’t know) that it’s the final day of the English Premier League football season. Being from Jakarta, he is a Manchester Utd supporter and he is anxious to see if they can pip Chelsea to the championship on the final day. Joseph, the very precise Kenyan doctor, is a Chelsea supporter, so he is equally keen to find out if “the Russian tanks” (as he calls them) roll on. My beloved Spurs could potentially leapfrog the Gooner Arsenal Scum today, so this is, to say the least, an important day.
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Friday 7 May 2010 by Stuart Bamforth
Haiti has been ignored by the international community for so long, I should not be surprised to wake up here in Leogane this morning feeling strangely distant from where all the decisions are being made in the modern world. It’s not just that we are 6 hours behind here.
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Wednesday 5 May 2010 by Stuart Bamforth
Get a grip, man! The earth is shaking. O-M-bl**dy-G!
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Tuesday 4 May 2010 by Sarah Jacobs
Today I slept through my first earthquake, and tried not to freak out during my second. We’ve come down to Leogane, the epicentre of the January quake and focus for much of our emergency response. It’s a relief to be out of the capital. Here a ten minute car journey takes ten minutes, rather than an hour snarled in traffic. From my bed, cocooned in my mosquito net (the mozzies are prolific and tenacious) I can see nothing but blue sky and green palm leaves.
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