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I have just been sent a Christmas email message that suggests that if one has money in the bank and and even a small amount left over at the end of each day, then you are in the top 8% of the world's wealthiest people. We have so much to do to improve the lives of the other 92% that it can appear to be such a massive task that you may not even try. If everyone just gave a small amount, what a difference it would make. I try to support where i can, to many and varied causes, but my one resolution for the coming year will be to try to think whether there is someone else with a more urgent need than i when I put my hand in my pocket to purchase something that I am about to purchase on a whim.

life is about living not surviving. No child in this world, in this day and age should have to die from diseases that are easily treatable. Every child deserves the right of health and happiness. Reading all about Kingsville also makes me even more perplexed and frustrated as to how we still have a huge percentage of child poverty right here in the UK.

This is a very thought provoking campaign, not just my thoughts of the adults and children in Kingsville but those the world over.

I hope that by the time my 11 month old daughter is old enough to understand a world outside of her own, child poverty will be a thing of the past. With campaigns like this, at least there is some hope of that happening in mine and my daughters life time.

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I think the website is fantastic. Well done! It is great to be able to see where donations go.

I've been following the coverage each week in the Sunday Times and online. Liberia was a country that, if i am honest, i couldn't have pointed to on a map before your appeal. But now i feel much more aware of the difficulties that the people of Liberia face.

I am a doctor and I work with young people in London. I am reminded of how lucky we are to have a free healthcare system. I think it's so important that Save the Children are investing in the training of healthcare professionals, but I was wondering if you are working with young people to teach them about some of the simple preventative measures that they can take to combat diseases like malaria and gastroenteritis? I think that it is so important to start young if you want to have a lasting effect.

Best wishes and good luck with the appeal!

Hi, my name is Tad and I am 6. I looked at the school in Kingsville. It is very different to my school. It made me feel a little sad.The children sat on plastic bags not chairs. I think that I am lucky. I gave some of my pocket money to buy a mosquito net.

For someone like myself who's never been to Africa this site is incredible at making me feel like I'm there. I love being able to pan around the images and hear people's stories- even though they are heartbreaking.
Thank you for making this possible.

Thnakyou for putting this on the web, its been a fantastic tool to help my pupils understand where aid goes too. They now want to organise a school collection .

Congratulations on the fantastic campaign you are running with the Sunday Times and on this site - it is incredibly inspiring and powerful, and I completely support the work to improve mother and child health.

Can I ask, though - what is Save the Children doing to help communities like Kingsville work towards greater self sufficiency in the longer term? Clearly there are a lot of hardworking and probably entrepreneurial people whose talents could be untapped to build up stronger agricultural or business developments, so that local trade and industry can also begin to play a role in both increasing government tax revenues and therefore hopefully also funding better public services, or even having a direct trade-for-development investment as you would see, for example with the way Fairtrade farmers invest in local health and education programmes. Could this also happen in Kingsville do you think? Does Save the Children support programmes like that too?

I read about Kingsville in the Times and, when it came to the article about Mamie, Siana and Prince and so on, I could not put the paper down and it left me with a totally different perspective on my 'comfortable' life over here ! Today I visited the site dedicated to Kingsville by StC and it just blew me away - you guys are awesome and in my book some serious RESPECT is due.

I have been privileged to have visited Africa on a number of occasions and, aside from the utter poverty one comes across time and again it is the resilience, strength and simple zest for life everyone seems to have that really makes the lasting impression.

Kingsville's situation will be repeated throughout this vast continent and organisations like Save the Children and many others like them, with the invaluable work they do, are clearly trying their hardest to make a difference.

Everyone of us in the so-called 'developed' world should be so grateful for our health, wealth and the opportunities we have and take time out to help these proud people in less developed parts. We can learn so much from their outlook on life and attitude to living - if only we all took just a little of our precious time and perhaps spare a little of the excesses, everyone makes room for at this time of year, and shared it with these folk to give them some hope for their future and the future for their little ones.

Every little helps... doesn't it ?

Thank you to everyone at Save the Children for your continued efforts but also for bringing this to our attention and giving me the opportunity to make a small difference.

I read about Kingsville in the Times and, when it came to the article about Mamie, Siana and Prince and so on, I could not put the paper down and it left me with a totally different perspective on my 'comfortable' life over here ! Today I visited the site dedicated to Kingsville by StC and it just blew me away - you guys are awesome and in my book some serious RESPECT is due.

I have been privileged to have visited Africa on a number of occasions and, aside from the utter poverty one comes across time and again it is the resilience, strength and simple zest for life everyone seems to have that really makes the lasting impression.

Kingsville's situation will be repeated throughout this vast continent and organisations like Save the Children and many others like them, with the invaluable work they do, are clearly trying their hardest to make a difference.

Everyone of us in the so-called 'developed' world should be so grateful for our health, wealth and the opportunities we have and take time out to help these proud people in less developed parts. We can learn so much from their outlook on life and attitude to living - if only we all took just a little of our precious time and perhaps spare a little of the excesses, everyone makes room for at this time of year, and shared it with these folk to give them some hope for their future and the future for their little ones.

Every little helps... doesn't it ?

Thank you to everyone at Save the Children for your continued efforts but also for bringing this to our attention and giving me the opportunity to make a small difference.

Hi, have been folowing the harrowing stories coming out of Africa.Kingsville is the latest in a long line of human tragedy. How on earth can charities like save,oxfam etc keep up with it all? We've had appeal after appeal,work from prominant characters like bob geldorf,and yet we still have these stories.All i can say is,don't lose heart,keep plugging,filling the little gaps that could help people like the midwife to bring hope to those less fortunate.
I am using the Justgiving site to raise some funds for Save the Children. it's been up and running for a month or so now,and is ticking over well.I'm casting my net further in the new year, trying to reach (and pass) my objective. I've asked family, friends to switch my christmas presents of socks etc to put the money to my site,with good success (trust me,i have plenty of socks!)........as we know from this site ,any small amount soon adds up,to that mosquito net,blanket,vaccinations,clean water,schooling,training etc. If you can spare time to visit my page,have a look.....its on the justgiving site.......www.justgiving/moto4africa have a read,wish me luck!!!!......stu .(sorry for being long winded,but if it gets me a quid,it's all worth it! )