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Tag Archives: Emergency response
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 […]
Posted in Education, Emergency Response, Foreign Travel
Also tagged children, education, Philippines, reading, school
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With No Way to Return Home, Syrian Refugees in Iraq Live in Limbo
The boy standing in the cement block doorway called to us to take his picture. We couldn’t resist his bright smile in the bleak and dust of the refugee camp. We went over and snapped a few shots and he looked at them proudly on our cell phones. His uncle, who was hovering close by, […]
Posted in Emergency Response, Foreign Travel, On the Road
Also tagged Iraq, Refugee Camp, save the children, Syria
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Sandy Hook Elementary School Tragedy: Coming Together to Protect Children
Save the Children has worked to ensure the safety and well-being of children around the world for nearly 100 years. We work with children all over the world who have been dramatically affected by war, crisis and violence. We believe that every child has the right to a safe and vibrant childhood. We applaud President […]
Posted in Advocacy, Emergency Response
Also tagged child friendly space, children, gun violence, newtown, Sandy Hook Elementary School, save the children
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Ready and Able in Vietnam
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
Posted in Foreign Travel
Also tagged disaster preparedness, education, save the children, Vietnam
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Keeping Kids Safe…Before and After Sandy
After my visit to a Red Cross shelter in New Jersey yesterday, I am more convinced than ever that we must urgently do a better job protecting kids in natural disasters than what we have done so far. Save the Children began emergency work in the US in a much bigger way after Hurricane […]
Posted in Emergency Response
Also tagged children, disaster preparedness, Hurricane Sandy, save the children
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“Do You Think They’re Ok?”- Kids Recover from Superstorm Sandy
The shelter in the Atlantic City Convention Center shelter is a huge sprawling hall with a constant wave of people arriving and leaving in a regular ebb and flow each day. Some families have just arrived from other shelters, some go back to devastated houses, and some come back to stay for what might be […]
Posted in Emergency Response
Also tagged children, Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey, save the children
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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 […]
Posted in Emergency Response, Foreign Travel, On the Road, Photos & Videos
Also tagged Burkina Faso, children, disaster preparedness, Fastathon, Fastathon 2012, Food Crisis, foreign assistance, hunger crisis, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Sahel, save the children, UNICEF
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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 […]
Posted in Emergency Response, Foreign Travel, Health, Photos & Videos
Also tagged children, East Africa, Ethiopia, horn of africa, Kenya, nutrition, save the children, Uganda
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Remembering 9/11
Today here in CT where I live dawned much like that morning 10 years ago which really did change all our lives forever. A clear blue sky, a crispness of fall in the morning air, a day you were happy to get up and get going. Unlike today, a Sunday, that September 11 ten […]