Monthly Archives: September 2013

Put the Frontline Health Worker Into the Post-2015 Framework

By Carolyn | Published September 23, 2013

This post previously appeared in the Huffington Post and on the Skoll World Forum.   As world leaders gather this week to discuss the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the Post-2015 Framework, no subject of conversation will be more important than the need for more frontline health care workers. In the last two decades, […]

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Spreading the Love of Reading Beyond School Walls

By Carolyn | Published September 9, 2013

Some of my favorite childhood memories involve curling up with a good book and embarking on a world of adventures unfolding on each page. But for 250 million children around the world who cannot read or write, getting lost in a story is a pleasure they may never get to experience.   For me, it’s […]

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Can Pakistan Help its Children Really Succeed?

By Carolyn | Published September 5, 2013

There were shy looks and even a few tears from the children when the group of strangers entered the small room and plopped ourselves on the floor. It wasn’t surprising. I got the feeling that the children probably didn’t see too many foreign visitors in their town, a remote village in the cornfields of

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Linking Hunger and Economic Impact in Pakistan

By Carolyn | Published September 3, 2013

During my visit last week to see Save the Children’s work in Pakistan firsthand, I was able to introduce the launch of an important series of papers by the prestigious journal The Lancet, following up on initial research done in 2008 by Drs Robert Black and Zulfigar Bhutta. That original series first defined the link […]

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