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Author Archives: ChangeMaker
Aid is helping to save 4 million children annually
Over the past 20 years, humanitarian aid along with economic growth and good government have combined to help 4 million more children each year to live beyond their fifth birthdays, according to a report for UNICEF and Save the Children. … Continue reading
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Sahel food crisis claims lives of Chad children
More than 2,000 children in the Kanem region of western Chad were admitted last month to nutrition treatment centers as a result of the drought and poor harvests across Africa’s Sahel, where an estimated 15 million people in half a … Continue reading
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Invisible Children
A week ago, not that many knew who Joseph Kony or the Lord’s Resistance Army was. But now a video has gone viral raising awareness about Kony and his group’s atrocities against humans. As of Friday afternoon, almost 71 million … Continue reading
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Brings light, security and fuel-efficient cooking to refugees!
UNHCR launched the five-year Light Years Ahead campaign in January 2011, aiming to raise funds to improve the basic cooking and lighting needs of more than 450,000 refugees in seven African countries. To date, the agency has raised US$1.4 million, … Continue reading
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Would-be teen bride is hospitalized in Afghan acid attack
The recent acid-throwing attack on a teenage Afghan girl and her two sisters has again focused attention on the fates of child brides. The 17-year-old girl in the Kunduz province, north of Kabul, was apparently supported by her family in … Continue reading
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India faces scourge of bridal slavery
India has the world’s largest number of slaves, among them an increasing number of women and girls sold into marriage. Women’s and children’s rights activists are sounding the alarm over the abuse of young girls as part of a growing … Continue reading
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7 Billion
I welcome “Danica” as the 7 000 000th new-born to the World! She and all the other children have the right to live in a better and safer world!
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UNHCR scales back work in Kenya
The UN refugee agency is continuing to distribute water, food and medical services to famine refugees in the Dadaab camps near the Kenya-Somalia border, but has suspended all non-life-saving activities after the abductions Thursday of two female Spanish aid workers. … Continue reading
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Inside the world of child brides
BBC presenter Nel Hedayat travels to India and Bangladesh, countries with two of the highest rates of child marriage, to chronicle what life is like to be one of the 10 million girls worldwide who are married off each year … Continue reading
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