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Tag Archives: USAID
Gaza’s Miracle Tomatoes
Crossing through the Israel’s Erez Crossing checkpoint and seeing the bleak landscape as you pass through the Fatah and Hamas checkpoints inside Gaza, it’s hard to imagine anything growing at all—let alone a flourishing garden. As we walked down the narrow pathway enclosed in wire mesh in the “no man’s land” of the Access Restricted […]
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, save the children
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Guatemala: Heroes against Hunger
It’s hard to reconcile the beautiful highlands of Guatemala, where I was in mid-January, with this stark fact: the child malnutrition rate here is the highest in the Western hemisphere. Roughly 5 out of every 10 Guatemalan children suffer from chronic malnutrition. All
Posted in Foreign Travel, Nutrition
Also tagged children, early childhood development, goats, Green Mountain Coffee, Guatemala, Starbucks
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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, save the children
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Are Kids of the World Doing Better? Not When it Comes to Hunger
This week, we released our Child Development Index and the bottom line is: kids deserve a lot better. The Index ranks the best and worst places in the world to be a child based on education, health, and nutrition statistics. While there is some good news in terms of education and child survival rates—33% […]
Posted in Health, Nutrition
Also tagged Child Development Index, children, Feed the Future, Mali, Malnutrition, Niger, Sahel, save the children
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