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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 […]
Also posted in Education
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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 […]
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 […]
Also posted in Advocacy, Child Survival
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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 […]
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Tagged carolyn miles, greece, lesbos, lesvos, migrants, refugee crisis, save the children, Syria
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Taking on an Overwhelming Challenge: The Child #RefugeeCrisis
Overwhelming is the best word for it. It has been more than a week since the photo of little Alan Kurdi, the three year-old Syrian refugee who drowned along with his mother and brother in an attempt to flee to Europe, captured the world’s attention. This image has put a human face on a […]
Getting to Zero — and Staying at Zero
This blog was first published on The Huffington Post. I was recently able to congratulate Liberia and its leaders for being declared “Ebola Free” by the World Health Organization. That was a big deal for me, because when I visited that country at the peak of the epidemic last year, I didn’t know how […]
Inside the Heart of an Epidemic
I am not sure that in my 16 years with Save the Children that I have seen—and felt myself—such palpable fear in a place as I did last week in Liberia. But it is a fear that comes at you in waves, an undercurrent that runs under what looks on the surface to be the […]
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From the Philippines, With Love
The following blog first appeared on The Huffington Post. _______________________ Love. If there is a single word that best describes what I witnessed during my visit to the Philippines last week, then that’s it. Love of family. Love of community. Love of people. Love of life. So what better day than Valentine’s Day […]
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Tagged children, education, Emergency response, Philippines, reading, school
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