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India: You can all be part of this great work

Tuesday 2 November 2010 by Carl Pickering

Nothing can compare to actually visiting the projects and seeing what a difference the work of Save the Children makes to the lives of children who have been rescued from child domestic labour and repatriated with their families.

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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.

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India: childrenforhire.com

Wednesday 23 June 2010 by Adarsh Sharma

Children for hire, it’s a name that speaks for itself. We wondered if building a website would be too bold a step given that no one had tried something so drastic within the non-profit sector in India, which also led to not knowing how the audience would react to the idea.

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HIV: Rising to the challenge of helping mothers

Wednesday 2 June 2010 by Alice Fay

There is much to do. With maternal and newborn health a key priority for us in countries where there is a high HIV prevalence, we must rise to the challenge of preventing mother to child transmission of HIV, which is a cost-effective and proven intervention that can save the lives of hundreds of thousands.

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Publication day

Friday 24 April 2009 by Clare Mulley

After seven years of researching the life of Save the Children’s founder, my biography of Eglantyne Jebb has finally published. It’s not the same as having a child of course, nothing like, but I do feel like I am losing protective control of this long nurtured thing and sending it off out there on its independent shelf-life

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