Author Archives: Carolyn
The Future Belongs to Educated Girls
This post is part of the blog series, “Her Goals: Our Future,” which highlights the connections between girls and women and the Sustainable Development Goals. It originally appeared on the UN Foundation Blog. March marks five years since the conflict in Syria began, the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II. Half of the […]
If These Syrian Kids’ Drawings Don’t Move You, What Will?
This post originally appeared in the Global Post. After World War II, we said never again. But today, five years after the conflict began, hundreds of thousands of Syrians — mostly women and children — are suffering in what some refer to as “death camps.” People are living in communities cut off from […]
A People with No Place
The five mothers sitting on plastic chairs beside me were decidedly cool while I sweated in the heat that was building, even on what was a relatively cool Myanmar morning. They were dressed in beautiful saris and long, colorful skirts and headscarves, and smiled widely in welcome. Through translation from English to Burmese to a […]
The Warning Bell Has Rung: Will the World Hear It?
The tiny boy’s chest rose and fell fast as he lay on the thin mattress of the hospital bed, his grandmother by his side. As I watched him struggle, I asked the doctor looking over him what was wrong. His diagnosis was severe malnutrition complicated by a serious case of pneumonia. Pneumonia kills more children […]
The Best Gift Parents Can Give
This holiday season, Guin and Nate are giving a very special present to their baby and Guin’s two older children, who they raise together: themselves. It used to be that this young couple from rural western Washington state wouldn’t spend much time with the kids. They would hide in their room with the door […]
Humanitarian organization CEOs: Let’s show Syrian refugees the promise of America
This post originally appeared on FoxNews.com, and was written in coordination with Michelle Nunn, Carolyn Woo, Neal Keny-Guyer, Raymond C. Offenheiser, & Richard Stearns. More than 4 million Syrian refugees, almost half of whom are children, have fled unspeakable violence. Even with winter advancing, many continue to make the treacherous journey from Turkey to Greece […]
Providing a Future for Millions of Syrian Children
It takes only a few hours on a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos to understand the enormity of the current refugee crisis sweeping Europe and the many dangers that refugees face, including so many mothers and children. On one typically busy day, our Save the Children staff counted 22 small rubber dinghies […]
After Fleeing Danger, Children Deserve a Warm Welcome
I am just back from the island of Lesvos in the southeastern part of Greece, where I was visiting our programs for refugees who have made the perilous crossing from Turkey. It is a surreal experience: on the one hand a beautiful island with lovely small towns where vacationers from Europe flock in the summer […]
The Time is Now: Delivering on the SDG Agenda
There’s no way around feelings of euphoria today. World Leaders at the United Nations are ringing in a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that promise to end extreme poverty and the scourge of hunger and preventable deaths of infants and children around the world. At the same time, the Pope […]
The First Day of School…in Cuba!
The first day of school is an exciting moment of possibility and potential—and the same could be said for my very first trip to Cuba. Everywhere I went, there was an expectant and hopeful feeling in the air. I spoke with young Cubans who expressed their enthusiasm about greater interaction with the world, including […]
