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Children helped back to school after Fiji floods
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 2:25 pm | Save The Children
Fiji's school year opens today after being forced to remain closed for an extra week due to heavy rain and severe flooding that devastated the western areas of Fiji. More >>
Humanitarian Convoy Leaving Jerusalem For Gaza
Friday, 23 January 2009, 3:51 pm | Save The Children
A convoy of international aid agencies of Save the Children, Action Against Hunger, Mercy Corps, Oxfam International and other Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) will drive from Jerusalem to Gaza in an attempt to get humanitarian staff in through ... More >>
Convey of aid agencies attempt to cross into Gaza
Friday, 23 January 2009, 11:36 am | Save The Children
A convoy of international aid agencies of Save the Children, Action Against Hunger, Mercy Corps, Oxfam International and other Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) will drive from Jerusalem to Gaza in an attempt to get humanitarian staff in through ... More >>
Save The Children Moves Quickly In Gaza
Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 10:43 am | Save The Children
JERUSALEM (18 January, 2009) — Save the Children is moving quickly to move aid into Gaza and swiftly deliver it to children and families in need, following the announcement of a ceasefire by all parties today. A truckload of 100 baby kits, 150 ... More >>
Save the Children Helping In Gaza
Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 10:43 am | Save The Children
JERUSALEM (18 January, 2009) Save the Children is moving quickly to move aid into Gaza and swiftly deliver it to children and families in need, following the announcement of a ceasefire by all parties today. A truckload of 100 baby kits, 150 hygiene kits ... More >>
Large-scale Relief Effort for Children in Gaza
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 2:21 pm | Save The Children
Save the Children is moving quickly to move aid into Gaza and swiftly deliver it to children and families in need, following the announcement of a ceasefire by all parties today. A truckload of 100 baby kits, 150 hygiene kits and more than 1,400 ... More >>
Staff Member Loses Family Member in Gaza Shelling
Friday, 16 January 2009, 3:51 pm | Save The Children
Save the Children renews calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza as violence escalates dramatically in Gaza. Four members of a Save the Children staff member's family in Gaza were killed last night by tank shelling as they fled their home in the Sabra ... More >>
Newborns, Babies in Gaza Face Increasing Threats
Monday, 12 January 2009, 4:26 pm | Save The Children
Save the Children warns that the lives of Gazan babies are increasingly threatened by deteriorating living conditions and two weeks of conflict, with Gaza's biggest paediatric hospital reporting that parents have been unable to bring ill children ... More >>
Cease Fire Brings Little Relief to Families
Thursday, 8 January 2009, 12:06 pm | Save The Children
Save the Children continued to provide vulnerable communities in northern and southern Gaza with lifesaving food supplies today, working before and during a brief cease fire that brought little relief to families in need. More >>
Save the Children's statement on violence in Gaza
Wednesday, 7 January 2009, 9:57 am | Save The Children
(January 6, 2009 - Gaza) -- Save the Children strongly protests the continued violence in Gaza that has now claimed the lives of more than 100 children. More >>
Save the Children Delivers Food to Gaza
Tuesday, 6 January 2009, 12:10 pm | Save The Children
Save the Children staff members today began delivering much-needed food to children and families in Gaza despite continued violence. More >>
Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic is not under control
Friday, 12 December 2008, 4:23 pm | Save The Children
Speaking from the agency's HQ in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare today, Rachel Pounds, Save the Children country director said: "If anything is certain in the chaos of Zimbabwe today it is that the cholera outbreak is not under control. According to ... More >>
Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic is not under control
Friday, 12 December 2008, 4:04 pm | Save The Children
Speaking from the agency's HQ in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare today, Rachel Pounds, Save the Children country director said: "If anything is certain in the chaos of Zimbabwe today it is that the cholera outbreak is not under control. According to ... More >>
New Board Member For Save The Children
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 9:35 am | Save The Children
John Allen, Chief Executive of New Zealand Post, has been appointed as a member of the Board of Save the Children New Zealand. More >>
Save the Children Donates To Zimbabwe Crisis
Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 3:48 pm | Save The Children
Save the Children New Zealand has announced that it will be sending NZD $60,000 to support the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe. More >>
Anthrax - new misery to cholera-hit Zimbabwe
Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 11:10 am | Save The Children
A deadly outbreak of anthrax has killed two children and one adult and is threatening to wipe out at least 60,000 livestock in Zimbabwe’s northern Zambezi Valley, Save the Children warned today. More >>
Families Torn Apart By War In The Congo
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 10:27 am | Save The Children
Over half the people displaced by the latest round of fighting in the Congo have become separated from family members in the chaos of war, a survey by Save the Children and other aid agencies suggests. More >>
Letter of the Rights of the Child Anniversary
Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 12:00 pm | Save The Children
In a first-ever joint statement, more than thirty winners of the Nobel Peace Prize today, the anniversary of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child signed in 1989 and Universal Children’s Day, called for urgent action. More >>
Need for Education of Children in Conflict
Thursday, 20 November 2008, 5:26 pm | Save The Children
In a first-ever joint statement, more than thirty winners of the Nobel Peace Prize today, the anniversary of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child signed in 1989 and Universal Children’s Day, called for urgent action to implement quality ... More >>
Armed Groups Attack School in Congo
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 3:29 pm | Save The Children
Armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo have attacked a school in a bid to recruit child soldiers. Save the Children knows of two recent incidents in which schoolchildren have been targeted. The children’s charity says the attacks are ... More >>
