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Tag Archives: save the 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 […]
Posted in Education
Also tagged children, early ed, early education, early steps to school success, education, family, parenting
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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 […]
Posted in Emergency Response, On the Road
Also tagged carolyn miles, greece, lesbos, lesvos, migrants, refugee crisis, Syria
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Moms are the Heroes
We’ve all heard it before in one form or another: “Don’t get between a mother and her baby,” “There is nothing better (or worse depending on your position!) than a fired up mom” or “Mothers are their kids’ best advocates. However you phrase it, I see evidence of this everywhere I go for my work […]
Posted in Foreign Travel, General, Health, On the Road
Also tagged breastfeeding, children, Health, maternal health, Mothers Day, Nepal, USAID
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2014 Must be a Better Year for Kids
This past year, like so many other years, saw its share of challenges for children around the world. There were the more than one million refugee children who fled Syria, the tens of thousands of young children who lost their homes and loved ones in Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and the over 300,000 babies […]
Spreading the Love of Reading Beyond School Walls
Some of my favorite childhood memories involve curling up with a good book and embarking on a world of adventures unfolding on each page. But for 250 million children around the world who cannot read or write, getting lost in a story is a pleasure they may never get to experience. For me, it’s […]
Linking Hunger and Economic Impact in Pakistan
During my visit last week to see Save the Children’s work in Pakistan firsthand, I was able to introduce the launch of an important series of papers by the prestigious journal The Lancet, following up on initial research done in 2008 by Drs Robert Black and Zulfigar Bhutta. That original series first defined the link […]
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 Emergency response, Iraq, Refugee Camp, Syria
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A Mom’s Best Or Worst Day
The following blog first appeared on The Huffington Post. _______________________ Every day, thousands of women celebrate one of life’s most amazing experiences — becoming a mother. But every 30 seconds a mother’s first moments with her baby are cut short, on the very day she gives birth. Until now, we didn’t know how common this […]
Posted in Health
Also tagged children, early childhood development, foreign assistance, frontline health workers, maternal health, newborn, newborns, State of the World's Mothers
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In This Case, Second Place Isn’t Something To Celebrate
Early this month I took my first trip to Abuja, Nigeria. Despite visiting almost 60 countries with Save the Children, I had never been to the West African nation. It is a country of over 162 million, one of the most populous in the region and seventh most populous in the world. With an average […]
Posted in Foreign Travel
Also tagged AIDs, children, chlorhexidine, development, foreign assistance, frontline health workers, Health, HIV, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, Nigeria, USAID
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In Refugee Camps, Basics Become Luxuries
The Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan is home to more than 100,000 refugees who have fled the fighting in Syria, but it’s unlikely that any of the camp’s residents consider this place—cold, crowded and under resourced—“home.” I traveled to Za’atari last week after the launch of Save the Children’s recent global report, Childhood Under […]
Posted in Emergency Response, Foreign Travel, On the Road
Also tagged children, foreign assistance, Jordan, Refugee Camp, Syria, Za’atari
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