From Bangladesh to New York City. We met women and children who told us their stories. We heard about children dying from things like diarrhea. Now we’re here in NYC to hold world leaders to account. They must keep their promises when they discuss world poverty at the UN Millennium Goals Summit. Adrian Lovett and Sian To discuss why Save the Children are in New York pressing world leaders for change.
EVERY ONE campaign chair Adrian Lovett shows you round the campaign’s art installation at Grand Central Station in New York, representing the three million supporters of the EVERY ONE campaign.
As part of our series of BackRoom Briefings, Patrick Watt addresses Millenium Development Goals 4 & 5, and proposes how we can get back on track with world leaders’ promises to reduce the awful levels of child mortality and maternal health before 2015.
Ahead of this week’s crucial MDG Summit, we asked children, doctors, health workers, mothers and ordinary people from around the world what we can do to stop children dying.
Reporters and producers descend to tell the story of Save the Children’s response to the floods in Pakistan in Sukkur district, Sindh. With tri-pods, cameras, notepads and microphones they jostle to get the best shot, to get the best story.
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.
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.
