2007

Browse 2007 news articles

  • This festive season Save the Children, IKEA and UNICEF are teaming up to ask customers in the UK to join them in helping to improve education for thousands of children worldwide.

  • Save the Children is delighted that Keith Towler, Programme Director for Save the Children Wales, has been appointed to the post of Children's Commissioner for Wales by Children's Minister Jane Hutt.

  • TV presenter Davina McCall and our Vice-President Gordon Campbell Gray came face to face with the grim realities of child labour when they met children working in a basement factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

  • 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.

  • A new report by Save the Children reveals that as many as 2.3 million people in the UK on low incomes are being forced to take out high-interest loans at rates topping 183% APR - many simply to provide essentials for their children.

  • Swaziland 's worst drought in nearly two decades has left 400,000 people in desperate need of assistance.

  • Gary Lightbody, frontman of Snow Patrol, travelled to northern Uganda with Save the Children visting some of the poorest communities in the world.

  • Children from three schools in London joined Save the Children to celebrate the eighteenth birthday of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

  • 1,400 children with disabilities have been placed in five residential institutions in Serbia. None of these is exclusively for children. Find out what we're doing about it.

  • Photographer Mario Testino's renowned print of the Princess of Wales has been auctioned at London auction house Phillips de Pury, raising £46,000 for our work in Peru.

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