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| Wednesday, March 12, 2008 |
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Child Injured after Stone Blow in Orphanage in Bulgaria
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A 14-year-old boy was taken to hospital after he was hit with a stone by another child in an orphanage in Bulgaria's capital city of Sofia on Monday.
The victim, who lives in Petko Slaveykov orphanage, suffered head and eye injuries but his condition is stable, doctors reported.
That is the second case in two days when a child from the same home was involved in an accident after a girl, aged 11, fell off the third floor of the building.
Emilia Koleva was discovered by a passing-by woman, sprawled on the street, her body covered in blood all over.
"She had three of her vertebrae broken and a brain concussion. Her life is out of danger," said Doctor Uzunov from Sofia's Pirogov Emergency Institute.
Police has launched an investigation into both cases.
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| Saturday, July 07, 2007 |
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South Africa: Police, Social Workers Shut Down Illegal Orphanage
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An illegal welfare centre in Orange Farm, Gauteng, was shut down on Wednesday, following a raid by police and social workers the day before. Child Welfare South Africa (CWSA) on Thursday voiced its appreciation for work done by the Department of Social Development in closing the unregistered welfare facility. Public Relations Officer for CWSA, Tommy Huma, told BuaNews that "we are very supportive of government action, and we really want to promote and get the word out there that there are certain procedures to follow in order to register as a welfare centre."
Founder of the Siyakhula Orphanage Centre, Eunice Mabaso, was ordered to shut down the centre because it was not legally registered with the department.
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| Wednesday, June 27, 2007 |
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Iraqi orphans moved after rescue by U.S., Iraqi troops
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BAGHDAD — Two dozen severely malnourished boys rescued by American and Iraqi troops from a Baghdad orphanage have been moved to a different building in the same facility and are being properly cared for, Iraqi officials said.
U.S. and Iraqi soldiers found the boys last week naked in a dark room, some tied to beds and too weak to stand once they were unbound, the military said.
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| Thursday, June 14, 2007 |
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Troç: Asking the hard questions about Albania’s future
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Daytime soap operas, national sporting events, and million-dollar game shows litter the airwaves everywhere in the world. There is one programme however that sets Albania apart and it has become the pride of a country in transition. Troç, or “Straight Talk”, is the youth driven television show for youth, by youth. The show raises the standard on how broadcast journalism is done in Albania, and the reporters are all under the age of 18. Troç is the first of its kind as a national programme with news and viewpoints from 11 bureaus all over Albania.
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| Friday, June 08, 2007 |
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Please Stop the Aid!
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Dsiclaimer: Though Parentless.org does not agree with the overall conclusion of this article it does point out enough issues that it makes it worth reading.
The Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati, 35, says that aid to Africa does more harm than good. The avid proponent of globalization spoke with SPIEGEL about the disastrous effects of Western development policy in Africa, corrupt rulers, and the tendency to overstate the AIDS problem.
SPIEGEL.DE INTERVIEW WITH AFRICAN ECONOMICS EXPERT
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| Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
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Fire in Bulgaria's Plovdiv Orphanage Finally Extinguished
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The fire that broke out Tuesday in one of the biggest orphanages in Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv was finally extinguished.
The children will even spend the night inside, as the flames did not harm the dormitories. A check of the level of harmful gases will be made, but the fire fighters are sure there is no risk for children's lives.
More than a hundred of the children have been immediately evacuated by people from the nearby office building. None of them suffered injuries.
The flames broke out in the steamshop, where repairs were recently carried out. Fire fighters claimed it was some naphta that caught flames that spread in the other premises.
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| Thursday, May 17, 2007 |
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LIBERIA: Fake orphans to attract donor funds
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This boy is an orphan. Thousands
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MONROVIA, 17 May 2007 (IRIN) - Orphanages are big businesses in Liberia attracting millions of dollars in international assistance every year, yet thousands of the so-called orphans living there are not parentless at all, according to Liberian government officials and child rights activists.
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| Monday, May 14, 2007 |
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Majdy Imad, Iraq "I can't stand the life of an orphan anymore"
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BAGHDAD, Ten-year-old Majdy Imad says he cannot stand being an orphan anymore. After losing his parents and two sisters on 17 November, 2006 in sectarian killings, he was taken to an overcrowded, under-resourced Baghdad orphanage – a move that forced him to leave his school.
Majdy has only one relative; an uncle who lives outside Iraq. Majdy cries every time he remembers his family. Desperate for love and care, he told IRIN that sometimes he thinks it would have been better if he had been killed with his family rather than enduring the life he is leading now.
"I need someone to take care of me because I can't stand the life of an orphan anymore. I am used to being loved, which I don't find here in the orphanage.
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| Saturday, May 05, 2007 |
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Orphanage helper accused of sodomising 5 children
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NEW DELHI: Five inmates of an orphanage in west Delhi were allegedly sodomised by a 50-year-old man on Monday. The accused, identified as Bala, is currently absconding.
According to the police, Bala was working as a helper in the orphanage for the past one year and is a resident of Subhash Nagar.
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Unicef News
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NEW YORK, USA, 21 November 2008 – Ishmael Beah, Grace Akallo and Kon Kelie have all survived the experience of being child soldiers. By speaking out about their own suffering and unlikely survival, they have become powerful advocates for the plight of children in armed conflict.
CORK, Ireland, 21 November 2008 – When Ethel Quayle sat down to devise an approach to the problem of child exploitation on the Internet, she was aware that millions of people in cyberspace might be seeking help. But Dr. Quayle was not directly targeting children who were being exploited.
NEW YORK, USA, 20 November 2008 – Child sexual exploitation has long been a known evil in developing countries where the combination of tourism and poverty make for a lucrative business. But at least 300,000 children and adolescents are prostituted every year in the United States, according to a University of Pennsylvania study. An estimated 2,200 of them are in New York City.
NEW YORK, USA, 20 November 2008 –The US Fund for UNICEF and Grammy Award-winning musical artist Rihanna were on hand to celebrate the UNICEF Snowflake lighting ceremony last night at Grand Army Plaza in New York City.
NEW YORK, USA, 19 November 2008 – Donors, civil society groups and non-governmental organizations gathered in Geneva today for the launch of the UN's 2009 Consolidated Appeal, or CAP, for humanitarian aid.
NEW YORK, USA, 19 November 2008 – UNICEF is hosting a two-day conference on making legal systems work to achieve children's and women's rights. The event brings together representatives of governments, non-governmental organizations and UN agencies, as well as academics, parliamentarians and experts on human rights legislation.
OYAM DISTRICT, Uganda, 19 November 2008 – The Government of Uganda has launched a large-scale malaria campaign here in the country's northern Lango sub-region. It is the latest effort to combat malaria, a preventable disease that is the top killer of children under the age of five in Uganda.
NEW YORK, USA, 18 November 2008 – Roughly half the infants who contract HIV from their mothers die before their second birthday. These deaths can be prevented: Antiretroviral prophylaxis given to a woman during pregnancy and delivery, and to her infant shortly following birth, have been shown to sharply reduce the likelihood of the mother passing HIV infection to her baby.
TOKYO, Japan, 18 November 2008 – Akihabara is one of Tokyo's most popular tourist destinations. It is a neighbourhood known for its shops, specifically those that sell advanced electronic gadgets and appliances. But Akihabara is also becoming known for its DVD shops, many of which sell pornographic movies and magazines that depict the sexual exploitation of children.
KIBATI CAMP, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 18 November 2008 – In the last two weeks, well over 100,000 people have fled their homes due to fighting and insecurity in eastern DR Congo. Over 35,000 are on the move as I write. In the last two and a half months, around 250,000 people have fled their homes. Some 1.1 million people in North Kivu – or 20 per cent of the province's population – are now in displacement.
MANILA and CEBU, Philippines, 17 November 2008 – At a shopping mall in Makati, Manila, a raid targeting child pornography begins. Sifting through some of the thousands of pirated DVDs is child rights campaigner Senator M.A. Madrigal.
MARADI, Niger, 17 November 2008 – A respected tailor within her community, Aichatou has a life today that is a far cry from the one she was living just over two years ago. Back then, she worked as a street vendor in the busy town of Maradi, eastern Niger, on the border with Nigeria.
NEW YORK, USA, 14 November 2008 – Continued fighting in North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, is placing children at risk of abuse and exploitation by armed groups, according to UNICEF representatives in Goma.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 14 November 2008 – UNICEF has condemned the increasing number of attacks on schools and students in Afghanistan. A recent acid attack on 15 female students walking to school in the southern city of Kandahar blinded two of the girls and injured two others.
MONROVIA, Liberia, 14 November 2008 – Peace came to Liberia in 2003, after 14 years of brutal, devastating civil war. Since then, progress to rebuild the country has been significant: the restoration of infrastructure, public services, the economy and the rule of law is well under way.
UCHI, Nigeria, 12 November 2008 – UNICEF Representative in Nigeria Dr. Suomi Sakai and other UNICEF staff recently visited Uchi Community Primary School, located in Benue State, and toured the school's improved water and sanitation facilites.
NEW YORK, USA, 11 November 2008 – Broadcasters from Ghana and the People's Republic of China were named the winners of the 2008 International Children's Day of Broadcasting Award in a ceremony held last night and attended by the regional finalistsin the annual contest.
NEW YORK, USA, 11 November 2008 – Insecurity persists in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where more than 250,000 people have been forced from their homes in the last two months alone, due to fighting between the army and a rebel group.
NEW YORK, USA, 10 November 2008 – During a meeting at UNICEF headquarters in New York this morning, Executive Director Ann M. Veneman thanked four children from Japan for their efforts to promote international peace. The Yokohama 'Peace Messengers', ranging in age from 11 to 15, raised approximately $160,000 for children's causes in 2008.
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, 10 November 2008 – The Children's Parliament of Guinea-Bissau last week presented its 'Manifesto' of young people's concerns to 19 political parties and two coalitions campaigning for legislative elections that will take place here on 16 November.
BANGUI, Central African Republic, 10 November 2008 – UNICEF USA Goodwill Ambassador Joel Madden has seen firsthand the deadly threat unsafe drinking water poses for thousands of children living in the Central African Republic (CAR).
NEW YORK, USA, 7 November 2008 – A fragile ceasefire is falling apart in North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, further deepening an already catastrophic humanitarian situation. Over the last two days, fighting between rebels and government troops and their allies has forced thousands more to flee.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, 6 November 2008 – The Caribbean Child Research Conference has become a milestone event that brings together academics, child-focused agencies, government officials and children to examine the latest research on issues affecting children.
SANTIAGO, Chile, 6 November 2008 – President of Chile Michelle Bachelet chaired the opening session of the international seminar 'The Impact of Preschool Education' yesterday. The event was organized by the Government of Chile and UNICEF.
NEW YORK, USA, 5 November 2008 – Up to 300,000 people have been affected by flooding in Yemen following a rare tropical storm there.
GUIDAN ROUMDJI, Niger, 5 November 2008 – Lying on a bed at the maternity ward of the UNICEF-supported Guidan Roumdji hospital in eastern Niger, Tchima Abou knows she could have died. The 27-year-old woman had given birth to her sixth child, a girl, at home when she started bleeding and slipped into unconsciousness.
BESALAMPY, Madagascar, 4 November 2008 – Local health authorities recently distributed mosquito nets and essential medicines free of charge to cyclone-affected families here. The distribution was part of UNICEF's partnership with the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO) and the Malagasy Government.
NEW YORK, USA, 4 November 2008 – In early May of this year, hundreds of thousands of people in south-western Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta were forced from their homes by Cyclone Nargis. Today, six months on, emergency relief efforts are on track, but more support is needed to ensure long-term recovery for cyclone-affected children and their families.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, 4 November 2008 – Aminata Mansaray, 16, was born in Mankneh, a small community in the Bombali district of northern Sierra Leone. She is the third of five children – three boys and two girls – and for much of her young life she was not enrolled in school.
NEW YORK, USA, 6 November 2008 – Continued violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is seriously hampering humanitarian agencies from reaching more than 1 million displaced people in the region.
MOSCOW, Russian Federation, 31 October 2008 – A textbook developed by UNICEF in partnership with the Dagestan State Pedagogical University was awarded a gold medal during Russia Education Week 2008, held in early October at the All-Russian Exhibition Centre in Moscow.
WINDHOEK, Namibia, 31 October 2008 – Declaring that every child has a right to a name and a nationality, the Government of Namibia – in collaboration with UNICEF – has launched a pilot programme to ensure that all children born in hospital are registered at birth.
CONAKRY, Guinea, 30 October 2008 – Global Handwashing Day was celebrated on 28 October in Guinea with handwashing ceremonies in schools across the country.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 30 October 2008 – In eastern DR Congo's North Kivu province, war rages on between government forces and rebels. Over the last six weeks alone, more than 250,000 people have been forced to flee fighting, bringing the total number of displaced people in the province to over 1 million.
NEW YORK, USA, 29 October 2008 – Providing for the needs of pregnant women and mothers in conflict, post-conflict and emergency situations can be a major challenge. During armed conflict, the well-being of women is threatened by physical, sexual and psychological abuse, and vital maternal care services are typically disrupted by the devastation of health infrastructure.
DJABAL, Chad, 29 October 2008 – Thirteen-year-old Manayar wants to see peace in Chad. She wants to continue school and become a doctor in her own country.
PANAMA CITY, Panama, 28 October 2008 – Panama is the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean to provide the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine to young adolescent girls, free of charge.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, 28 October 2008 – Mahmud Konneh recently finished building a latrine in his village, Tilorma, in the Kenema District of eastern Sierra Leone. It is one of the 30 new latrines that have been constructed by Tilorma villagers under the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach.
NEW YORK, USA, 28 October 2008 – High-level talks about progress towards the Millennium Development Goals took place last month during the United Nations General Assembly. Special attention was paid to commitments and progress in some of the poorest African nations, particularly in the area of education.
NEW MOROLICA, Honduras, 27 October 2008 — In a coincidence that shows the terrible frequency with which severe tropical storms and hurricanes strike the region, the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Mitch falls at a time when Honduras is again suffering a nationwide natural disaster.
SÃO PAULO, Brazil, 27 October 2008 – As part of an official state visit to Brazil, UNICEF's Eminent Advocate for Children, Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan, visited the UNICEF-supported Aprendiz City-School, a non-governmental organization located in the Vila Madalena district of São Paulo last week.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, 24 October 2008 – "I have to choose between being hungry or going to school." These sentiments, as expressed by a 12-year old girl who works in a rice husking mill in Bangladesh will never be forgotten by Germany's First Lady, Eva Luise Koehler.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, 23 October 2008 - Children at a UNICEF-supported school in Argentina received a royal visitor this week, when Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan dropped by.
TOVIKLIN, Benin, 22 October 2008 – "We want to go to school, achieve primary education, and go forward in order to become ministers, civil servants, teachers, physicians, top executives," sang 12 young girls from Toviklin, a rural town in the southwest of Benin.
CHIWAMBA, Malawi, 21 October 2008 – Anna Jumbe did not understand why her 14-month-old baby was always sick. Disillusioned with treatments she had administered, none of which worked, she decided to walk 10 km to Chiwamba Health Centre, where her baby Brenda was diagnosed with acute malnutrition and admitted into the Nutrition Rehabilitation Programme.
MASERU, Lesotho, 21 October 2008 – In this small kingdom in Southern Africa – which has the third-highest HIV prevalence rate in the world, at 23 per cent – one in three pregnant women in antenatal care is living with the virus. At any given time, thousands of babies are at risk of contracting HIV as it passes from mother to child during pregnancy or birth.
NEW YORK, USA, 20 October 2008 – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and classical pianist Lang Lang is expanding his commitment to children's rights by creating an international foundation to encourage children's love of music.
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, 20 October 2008 – Bella, a native of DR Congo, returned to this country from Uganda three years ago. After almost a year of sickness, she decided to go to one of the HIV-testing centres in Kinshasa.
CHAANDIGARH, India, 16 October 2008 – Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and his teammates joined an estimated 100 million school children around the country yesterday in lathering up for better health and hygiene as part of the first Global Handwashing Day.
GENEVA, Switzerland, 17 October 2008– For a moment during the recent war in and around South Ossetia, Georgia, the front line nearly passed through the Senaki Institute, a residential school for 105 mentally and physically disabled children abandoned by their parents. In the opening days of the conflict, a bomb flattened an adjacent building.
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Save The Children News
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In this issue: New Holiday 2008 Gift Catalog; Diary of a Sponsor; Hollywood’s Big Stars Make Little Caps for Newborns; Emergency Hotspots Map. Coming Soon: This Thanksgiving you can give back by keeping children in mind and in your heart: Give now and we'll thank you with our 2009 Calendar.
In a first-ever joint statement, 31 winners of the Nobel Peace Prize enlisted by Save the Children called for urgent action to implement quality education and build peace in conflict-affected countries.
In response to a series of economic and social shocks that are hampering the ability of families in Tajikistan to obtain sufficient and nutritious food, Save the Children is providing ongoing assistance to help vulnerable people through the current crisis and the onset of winter.
The results are in — and not just for the presidential election, but for TripAdvisor's "More than Footprints™" philanthropic initiative. The company believes in the power of the collective voice, so TripAdvisor recently asked the public to decide how to allocate its $1 million donation to five travel-related nonprofits, includiing Save the Children.
Simon Fuller's Idol Gives Back announces $10 million grant for Save the Children's U.S. Programs. American Idol viewers will be helping Save the Children assist thousands of children in need in some of the nation's poorest rural communities as a result of donations made last April to Idol Gives Back, FOX's Emmy Award-winning charity event.
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