Monthly Archives: February 2012

Making Hunger Obsolete

By Carolyn | Published February 28, 2012

I traveled this week to India, both for Save the Children visits and to take my daughter Molly (10) and son Patrick (16) along to see a fascinating place they had never been during their school break. After the Taj Mahal and the backwaters of Kerala, we went to see a program in action that […]

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PHOTOS: Hometown Heroes

By Carolyn | Published February 7, 2012

How do you save the lives of children who would otherwise die of diseases like pneumonia, the number one killer of kids in the developing world? Get a hometown hero on your side.   Frontline Health Workers are saving lives every single day in places like Uganda and Kenya, where I traveled just a week […]

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Hunger Stalks the Children of Africa

By Carolyn | Published February 1, 2012

I’m back now from my trip to Uganda and Kenya, but the images of the children there keep stealing into my thoughts. Pictures of a tiny boy, 14 months old but looking like 4 months, a fragile little girl with stick arms crying on a small cot, a mother cradling her sick 8-month-old son whose […]

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