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The Best Gift Parents Can Give

By Carolyn | Published December 17, 2015

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 […]

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How A Silent Girl Named Serenity Finally Found Her Words

By Carolyn | Published September 8, 2014

This blog originally appeared in The Huffington Post. An early start on learning means everything when it comes to a child’s future. Yet too many children living in poverty in America and around the world don’t have access to a quality early education. In fact, children from low-income homes hear an average of […]

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From the Philippines, With Love

By Carolyn | Published February 14, 2014

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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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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Ready and Able in Vietnam

By Carolyn | Published December 12, 2012

Today’s entry is a guest blog from Le Thi Bich Hang and Nguyen Van Gia, my colleagues in Save the Children’s Vietnam Country Office. I met Hang and Gia during my last trip to Vietnam when, alongside Country Director Huy Sinh Pham and

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A Visit to Vietnam Uncovers Progress, Challenges—and Joy!

By Carolyn | Published December 5, 2012

Vietnam has made progress by leaps and bounds in the past decade, improving economic growth, boosting newborn and child survival rates and getting more kids in school. As I traveled throughout the country last week, I could see that this progress was rooted in the determination and industriousness of the Vietnamese people. They have worked […]

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How Can We Build Hope for America’s Kids?

By Carolyn | Published September 25, 2012

Traveling in rural Arkansas, you can sometimes forget where you are. The long stretch of bumpy highway, surrounded by cotton fields and rice paddies, could be in one of a dozen countries I’ve traveled to recently. And, unfortunately, the poor families I met could have been from any of those countries too—rather than living in […]

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Some wins for kids but so much more to do……

By Carolyn | Published January 3, 2012

As I reflect back on 2011, the changes in the world and the world for children were vast, both here in the United States and around the world. Here in the US, more children are living in poverty as we begin 2012 than in the last 20 years, both as a percentage of our […]

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PHOTOS: Revolution & Evolution: My Trip to Egypt – Part 3

By Carolyn | Published November 3, 2011

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 […]

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PHOTOS: Revolution & Evolution: My Trip to Egypt – Part 2

By Carolyn | Published October 26, 2011

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 […]

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