The Independent Christmas appeal
Over the past month, the Independent has been publishing stories on Save the Children's work and is inviting readers to help fund our projects.
Monday 10 December 2007
The unluckiest baby in the world
Sierra Leone, only six hours from London, has the world's worst infant mortality rate. And for this new-born child and her young mother, the fight is only just beginning... Read the full article on The Independent.
The tragedy of a child born into a world of suffering
Sierra Leone is pretty much the worst place in the world in which one could be born in 2007. This is a nation left broken by a particularly vicious civil war. The conflict ended five years ago, thanks in large part to the intervention of British troops... Read the full article on The Independent.
Life after conflict for the girl soldiers of Ivory Coast
Sandrine remembers vividly events on the day Ivory Coast's civil war came to her village. "I was at school when the soldiers arrived so I ran home to be with my grandfather. But when I got there they were rounding up the young boys," she recalls with a sad smile... Read the full article on The Independent.
Return of the child soldiers
Nothing prepares you for talking to a child you know has killed others in battle - or mutilated them in a test to prove his loyalty to the rebel gang that pressed him to become a soldier at the unbelievable age of seven... Read the full article on The Independent.
Burma's girls are victims of China's one-child policy
No one ever expected it to be the young girls of Burma who would become the unintended victims of the one-child birth control policy in China. But two decades on, children as young as 10 are being trafficked across the border from Burma into China as child brides. They are sold into a future of high uncertainty... Read the full article on The Independent.
Children who can only dream about the world outside their school gates
Though he's a Muslim, 10-year-old Mohammed Yunis's dream is to go to Bethlehem on a field trip. "I would like to go to the Church of Nativity, because Jesus was born there," he announces during morning break in the overcrowded, rubble-strewn little lot that serves as the only school playground here... Read the full article on The Independent.
Dear Sissy... West Africa's newest agony aunt takes on sexual traumas left by a civil war
Usman has issues with girls. The teenager is so anxious about his failure to attract any, that he writes a desperate letter to a woman he has never met... Read the full article on The Independent.
Independent Appeal: An appeal for your help this Christmas
Fatmata was born in a land where one in four babies dies before the age of five. She has been given hope by one of the charities in our Christmas appeal. Last year, readers responded with huge generosity to help the poor and dispossessed throughout the world. This year, with your help, many more children will have cause to smile... Read the full article on The Independent.
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