Thursday 23 December 2010 by Lotte Claessens
When Gareth Owen called me a “lucky devil” during my induction in October, I didn’t realise yet how unique my first deployment as a child protection trainee would be. Now, after my first month in Leh, a Buddhist town high up in the Indian Himalayas, I can indeed say that I am lucky to be living in the Ladakh region in Kashmir, known for its stunning panoramas of gigantic mountains with crisp white tops against a clear blue sky. And although the weather is freezing cold, the smiles of the Buddhist and Muslim Ladakhi are sure to warm you.
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Tuesday 31 August 2010 by Ian Woolverton
There’s a cruel irony at play in flood-affected Pakistan. Despite being swamped by billions of litres of water, children and families cannot get enough safe water.
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Monday 23 August 2010 by Ian Woolverton
Even before the floods, 40% of Pakistanis were food insecure. But now with exacerbated shortages and prices spiralling, a period of political instability is possible which would make the poor even more vulnerable.
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Sunday 15 August 2010 by Save the Children
We reached the first town, Adyan, after crossing two hills. The entire shape of the city had changed – the floods created a river that went straight through the middle of town, completely destroying the main market. Mud and dust was everywhere
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Wednesday 11 August 2010 by Save the Children
With entire districts submerged and fear of more flooding from rains in Afghanistan, our work in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is rapidly gaining pace.
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Tuesday 3 August 2010 by Save the Children
I arrived in Saidu Sharif, Swat, Pakistan last Sunday to conduct a training for local organizations. Just two days later, unprecedented monsoon rains caused widespread destruction here.
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Monday 2 August 2010 by Amy Reed
We need community workers, cars and fuel to physically go out, find these children, bring them back and save their lives.
And we need to help families in the longer term. They need food now, but they also needs to be protected from having to sell seeds and tools for just a few days of food.
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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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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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Tuesday 8 December 2009 by Hannah Muiruri
The best thing about being a painter is that the complete picture is in your mind all along as you proceed with your work. On the other hand the situation for the Kenyan children in the remote areas of the country’s North Eastern Province is a picture you do not want ever completed in your mind.
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