Biological pattern
I’ve now lived long enough to notice a biological pattern to life – if things go to script. GRAPHIC: leremy/iStockphoto The first part of life, your parents nurture you, hopefully helping you become a well-adjusted adult. Then you nurture your own children, hopefully realising just how important this is before they’ve left home. Then there […]
From the Field: Why an organisation founded to care for orphans no longer has a children’s home
VAUGHAN STANNARD, director of collaboration at Beautiful Gate South Africa, said the organisation’s aim now is to strengthen families to raise thriving children…
UN warns Haiti’s capital blockaded, no aid for malnourished children
United Nations/Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Haiti’s capital is almost completely cut off by air, sea and land blockades as gang violence intensifies, stopping aid from getting to 58,000 children with the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, the head of the UN children’s agency warned on Monday. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said two-thirds of Haiti’s children […]
Gaza children yearn for their school days before conflict
Gaza Reuters Traumatised 10-year-old students stare at their destroyed schools in Gaza, a grim reminder of the education and time with friends in the playground lost since the war erupted over six months ago. “We would go out during recess. We would go to the classroom and walk around. The principle would come to the […]
South Koreans still seek answers 10 years after Sewol ferry disaster
Ansan, South Korea Reuters South Korea remembered the 304 people, most of them school children, who died on the Sewol ferry on the 10th anniversary of its sinking on Tuesday, with families calling for a proper apology for the unnecessary deaths of their loved ones. Many parents attended a memorial service in the city of […]
Ten years after South Korean ferry disaster, mothers express their grief on stage
Ansan, South Korea Reuters For Lee Mi-kyung, whose son was one of the 250 children who died in South Korea’s Sewol ferry disaster 10 years ago, coping with the grief and anger has been incredibly hard. She works through her pain on stage. “I will no longer hide in darkness, nor be defeated by sorrow, […]
Casualties from Myanmar landmines jump to over 1,000 last year, says UNICEF
Reuters The number of civilian casualties, including children, who were killed or maimed by landmines and explosive ordnance in Myanmar more than doubled last year to 1,052, the UN children’s agency said on Thursday, as conflict raged in the impoverished country. Landmines and explosive remnants of war caused a 270 per cent jump in casualties […]
Mums ban outdoor fun as air pollution worsens in Vietnam capital
Hanoi, Vietnam Reuters Nga Trang has nearly stopped going out in the evening and forbids her kids to play outdoors after school because air pollution from burning trash gets worse in her neighbourhood in Hanoi in the late afternoon. A Hanoian by birth, Nga, 44, is one of many residents of Vietnam’s capital whose daily […]
Essay: Haiti’s crisis is at a tipping point. The world needs to help
In an article first published on Religion News Service, DAVID VANDERPOOL, a surgeon who leads the international faith-based non-profit LiveBeyond, says the international community has a moral obligation to support Haiti during this crisis…
UN warns of catastrophic hunger in Sudan in coming months
Updated: 9:30am (AEDT) Geneva, Switerzland Reuters Nearly five million people in Sudan could suffer catastrophic hunger in parts of the war-torn country in the coming months, United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths warned the Security Council on Friday in a note seen by Reuters. Griffiths said acute levels of hunger were being driven by the […]