Silent Emergencies: Flooding in Central America
Friday 4 November 2011 by Sophie Stokes
Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Mexico are experiencing severe flooding affecting more than a million people in total.
food
India: Poverty is never far away
Monday 1 November 2010 by Sue James
As it’s Sunday and the Save the Children offices are closed, we felt we had earned a little retail therapy and I must confess I got a little carried away.
Niger: Trying to end a hand to mouth existence
Thursday 19 August 2010 by Mallary Gelb
In Niger’s bustling capital, Niamey, it’s easy to forget that more than 80 percent of people in this country are dependent on the land for food and their livelihood.
Most are extremely poor – a combination of regular poor harvests which yield little and a hand to mouth existence when the harvests are good.
Niger: Beating the unscrupulous traders
Wednesday 18 August 2010 by Mallary Gelb
I’ve just met a Nigerien woman in the capital, Niamey, who is determined to challenge the unscrupulous traders who are partially behind the high prices of millet – the staple here – and other grain which is playing an important part in the severe food crisis which is devastating this country.
Sri Lanka: Pleasure of helping people help themselves
Monday 16 August 2010 by Menaca Calyaneratne
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.
Niger: We must have community workers to find those in need
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.
Ethiopia: Life in the Desert
Saturday 24 July 2010 by Victoria Palmer
It’s been about three weeks since I returned to the cool northern highlands but I’m still not taking my escape from the heat for granted. I spent nearly two weeks wilting in the extreme heat of Ethiopia’s Afar region, home to the Danakil Depression – the hottest place on earth at 100m below sea level. I’d never experienced heat like this before. When our car broke down in the desert we ventured out with a thermometer and weren’t surprised to see it read 43°C.
Niger: 7.7 million people are going hungry
Monday 19 July 2010 by Amy Reed
7.7 million people are going hungry. 127,000 children under five years old have been admitted to hospital for malnutrition-related problems since the start of the year. That’s like having a city the size of Oxford full of no one but starving babies and toddlers. It’s terrifying.
RIP Nassirou
Friday 16 July 2010 by Rachel Palmer
Nassirou’s death was one of the last tragic things I witnessed in Niger before I left at the end of my two month deployment as communications officer. Sadly, the crisis in Niger is still deteriorating.
Niger: How many children like Haoua will die?
Tuesday 29 June 2010 by Charles Mampasu
We found a small girl wrapped in dusty cloth. At 3 years and 6 months, Haoua weighed only 6 kilograms. The child was completely dehydrated.
