People ask me all the time about why ‘my cause’ is modern slavery when there are so many other causes to choose from. Funny enough last night a group of fellow abolitionists' and I had the same discussion about how to promote the cause in a city full of worthy causes, many whose numbers cry […]
ETHIOPIA: Families hard hit by food crisis Mothers and children are being targeted as Ethiopia battles mass hunger. Drought, a shortage of resources and the global food crisis are helping drive hunger and malnutrition as Ethiopia faces one of the world's most severe food crises. About 1.6 million mothers and almost 6 million children are […]
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” -Sir Winston Churchill, author and former U.K. Prime Minister The responsibility of the world's children is ours; collectively we hold the power for greatness in the palms of our hands. Children have the possibility of greatness and the responsibility to protect, guide and foster the potential in each child […]
“The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.” – George Bernard Shaw GLOBAL: Food wasted is water lost To meet growing food demand, in another 40 years the world would need enough water to fill at least three lakes the size of Victoria, Africa's largest body of water, according to a projection […]
Today America is taking the day off to celebrate Labor Day, Labor day was established in 1882 when New York City's Central Labor Union created a day off for the working class. In 1894 Congress established Labor Day as a federal holiday in 1894. As we gather to take a weekend of rest and honor the hard work and labor […]
South Africa to provide vaccinations against child-killing diseases South Africa will provide children with vaccinations for pneumococcal disease, the major vaccine-preventable cause of death among young children, and rotavirus, a diarrhea that affects almost every child before the age of 3. Iraqi students exempted from school fees Jordan has waived annual fees in state-owned schools […]
“Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.” – Marian Wright Edelman, American children's rights activist and president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund. Regardless of the reasons, the state, race, religion or social status […]
As a child of the 80's when the word famine is mentioned I can distinctively hear my mother telling me to ear my entire plate of my despised broccoli, because "there are starving children in Ethiopia". I know wonder if more than 20 years later I will soon find myself uttering those same words at […]
Some 854 million people around the globe do not have enough to eat, according to the FAO State of Food Insecurity in the World 2006 report. The dilemma on who to save has hit many hard, but as the article, In a time of famine, who should be saved?, illustrates the issue is not just […]
One rarely thinks that Eenie, meenie, minie, mo is a game to be played when looking at the global food crisis, let alone when staring into the eyes of malnourished children. Therefore when you're faced with immense amounts of people in need, but you can only help a few, who do you, choose to help? […]
Palestinians return to school despite hardships As one million Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip prepare to return to school next week, UN agencies and the Palestinian Ministry of Education have been stressing the problems schoolchildren face in the occupied Palestinian territory [oPt].“We should celebrate – in spite of all the hardships […]
In despite of numerous, and seemingly successful, efforts to alleviate malnutrition in Sri Lankan children, children continue to be malnurished. Why are so many children still malnurished, despite numerous health programs in incitives? Inspite of various successes the country remains in a serious child health crisis, as reported in a newly released survey. The Demographic and Health Survey 2006/2007, […]
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our young people , one of these is roots, the other is wings.” –Hodding Carter We seek to give our children everything we can, wanting them to have infinite possibilities and striving to see our children have all that we did not. However often […]
Water is something we rarely think about; we get up in the morning and turn on our taps to brush our teeth, hop in a nice hot shower and pour ourselves a glass of ice water on a hot summers day, all without a thought about how clean it is or where it came from. […]
Pregnancy and birth should be happy times for women and their families, however in many countries they are cause for grave concern as high levels of mortality follow both. While both maternal and infant mortality are easily preventable, there numbers remain at shocking highs in many countries around the world. In recent news some countries […]