Monday 29 June 2009 by Zoe Van der Linden
It’s Monday afternoon and, like many other people, I am sitting at my computer writing this blog and wishing I had been at Glastonbury this weekend.
The reason? Because over the past few days people have been ‘Making their Mark’ – giving us their thumbprint – to support our biggest ever campaign to save children’s lives.
The feedback we have received from everyone at Glastonbury has been amazing. At one point on Friday people were queuing outside the tent patiently waiting to ‘Make their Mark’.
We headed to Glastonbury expecting to get 10,000 thumbprints over the whole weekend. As of the end of the day yesterday, OVER 20,000 people made their mark. We even had loads of celebrities ‘Make their Mark’ – from KT Tunstall, Graham Coxon from Blur, and Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand, to Pixie Geldof, Gabriella Cilmi and even Andrew Marr. See more pictures.
Just because you can’t be there, doesn’t mean you can’t support our campaign too. Join the 20,000 at Glastonbury and ‘Make Your Mark’ today.
Thursday 25 June 2009 by Catherine Carter
It’s been one week since the amazing Day of the African Child – but it seems to have flown by. I spent a manic couple of days pulling together an internal update on all the events that happened across the world – children in Sierra Leone marched in the streets and Made their Mark, the Liberian President pledged to work with leaders across the world to give every child the right to life, and children, politicians, celebs and world leaders – all Made their Mark to help save 10 million lives.
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Thursday 18 June 2009 by Jo Greening
As Parliamentary officer for Save the Children UK, it is always exciting to bring campaigns right to the doorstep of Parliament. This week we did just that! On 16 June, the Day of the African Child, we took ‘Make your Mark’ to the Gardens of Parliament to demonstrate that it’s not acceptable that 9.2 million children under the age of five die each year, and that now is the time for the G8 leaders to do something about it.
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Tuesday 16 June 2009 by Zoe Van der Linden
On 16 June 1976, thousands of black school children in Soweto, South Africa, took to the streets to protest the inferior quality of their education and to demand their right to be taught in their own language. Hundreds of young boys and girls were shot down. In memory of these brave young campaigners, every year on 16 June we celebrate Day of the African Child.
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