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Ten Reasons to Be Thankful This Thanksgiving
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Tagged #GivingTuesday, children, Giving Tuesday, save the children, Thanksgiving
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Moussa’s story
When they brought Moussa over and laid him in my arms, my heart stopped for a minute. He was barely breathing and was so frail, I was afraid he might die as I held him. Though he was more than two months old, his arms and legs were tiny and frail and his breathing was […]
Also posted in Emergency Response, Foreign Travel, On the Road
Tagged Burkina Faso, children, disaster preparedness, Emergency response, Fastathon, Fastathon 2012, Food Crisis, foreign assistance, hunger crisis, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Sahel, save the children, UNICEF
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Getting Ready for BlogHer ‘12
I am incredibly excited to connect with all of the amazing women at BlogHer ‘12, an annual conference that brings women in social media together. One of the most powerful ways to deliver a message in social media is through video. That’s why I want to share this video with you, which we’ll screen at […]
Also posted in Health, Panels and Speaking Engagements
Tagged blogher, blogher12, children, frontline health workers, Health, Malawi, save the children
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VIDEO: Working Kids….but This is No Summer Job
I spent last week in Bangladesh, a country of 161 million people, many of whom live in the capital city of Dhaka. Many of those people, in fact 54 million of them, are kids under 15. And a high percentage of these children start to work by the age of 10 or 12 in order […]
Also posted in Foreign Travel, On the Road
Tagged Bangladesh, child labor, children, poverty, save the children
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PHOTOS: Hometown Heroes
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 […]
Also posted in Emergency Response, Foreign Travel, Health
Tagged children, East Africa, Emergency response, Ethiopia, horn of africa, Kenya, nutrition, save the children, Uganda
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PHOTOS: Revolution & Evolution: My Trip to Egypt – Part 3
My evening in Assiut proved to be one of the most unique and interesting parts of my visit to Upper Egypt. As it began to get dark, the streets became clogged with young people coming home and going out. We traveled to a youth center, supported by the local government, to attend a play organized […]
Also posted in Education, Foreign Travel, On the Road
Tagged children, early childhood development, education, Egypt, save the children
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PHOTOS: Revolution & Evolution: My Trip to Egypt – Part 2
Don’t forget to check out the first part of my trip, a visit to one of our Early Childhood Development centers. After a fun morning with the kids, I headed over to visit our maternal and newborn health program in Assiut, which was a great opportunity to see how much our programs depend on partnerships […]
Also posted in Foreign Travel, Health, On the Road
Tagged carolyn miles, children, education, Egypt, girls, save the children
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VIDEO: Thank you Athene and DC Entertainment
Our thank you Athene and DC Entertainment for their support of our Horn of Africa hunger crisis relief efforts.
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VIDEO: Visit to Dadaab, Kenya
Visit to Dadaab, Kenya, the world’s largest refugee camp to survey our relief efforts.
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