2011 has been the busiest year for Save the Children’s Humanitarian Emergencies team in our 90-year history: 44 emergency responses, in 38 different countries. We’re really very tired.
Today I attended the launch of a new book, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation at the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, that analyses why some countries achieve good health outcomes despite having low income status.
We at Save the Children, take accountability seriously.
Receiving a medal for completing 10 years with Save the Children is much bigger for me than winning an Oscar or an Olympic gold.
I seem to be having many precious moments remembering the people who were associated with Save the Children UK. Visiting Madam Jebb’s grave site in Geneva made me quite famous, as many known and unknown colleagues from all across the organization wrote to me after reading my blog.
We go for advocacy workshops. We know the technical details of how to advocate. But are we always practical?
Sri Lanka has been celebrating ‘Children’s Day’ on the 1st of October for over a decade. But often, the day is a reason to organise fun and games for a section of our child population which is 6 million. How can we celebrate children’s right to be children, on this day?
Sending children to children’s homes is a popular concept in Sri Lanka. During the war, and due to poverty parents sent their children to institutions particularly in the north and east of the country. Save the Children has been working and advocating to reunify such children. But miles to go before we sleep…
In Jaffna peninsula alone, it is reported that there are 26,300 widows. We need to help them with more than cash grants and livelihood support.
Save the Children in involved in helping people resettle in the Northern Sri Lanka after the war. This story is about a man who has taken his own initiative to do better in life, with only a little help from a friend named Save the Children.
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