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Spent a lot of time travelling in the car to different Save the Children projects- perfect time to stitch and reflect on what we were seeing
About The Project (Oct 2012- March 2013)
Are you a piece?
Pioneers of the emerging contemporary craft movement Mr X Stitch, Deadly Knitshade & Hilary of Craftblog UK are joining the Craftivist Collective to urge the craft community to help us create a giant jigsaw embroidered with provocative messages to support Save the Children's Race Against Hunger Campaign. Wanna join us?
In November 2012 we went on a trip to Indonesia to see how people are tackling child malnutrition there with the support of Save the Children.
What?
Using jigsaw pieces stitched by craftivists (that means you!), the project will create an art installation to raise awareness of the issues of world hunger and injustice. As well as making a piece for the artwork, we're encouraging you to make one for yourself to keep as a reminder to be part of the solution, and to give a piece stitched with the words "I'm a piece" to your MP, to ask them to be the positive change they wish to see in the world. You can find instructions here, your jigsaw template here, suggested slogans here, a story to reflect on whilst stitching here and there's also a video here.- everything you should need!
Why?
The aim is to raise awareness and show that the craft community wants the Government to use its power and influence as host of the 2013 G8 to tackle injustice. Each piece of the puzzle will be stitched with a message to remind us we can all improve the world and help fulfill its potential to be a more beautiful place for all.
Where?
There will be craft events across the country from Manchester to London, Cardiff and Milton Keynes and crafty activists are invited to do the project on their own, with friends or set up their own event, as well as spreading messages and images about the project through their social media platforms using #imapiece. And, of course, we hope you'll sign the Race Against Hunger petition too.
You can help!
Please join the Craftivist Collective's Jigsaw Project, which will run until the spring 2013. Help put hunger at the top of the agenda at the G8 next summer, and encourage us all to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
“This year, we sowed our seeds, then there was a flood which washed everything away. We planted again and another flood came so we lost everything", says Rosa, in Mozambique's Zambezi valley. Rosa and her fellow villagers have formed an association and decided to diversify into goat-raising.
In the Zambezi valley of Mozambique, climate change has affected hundreds of thousands people, who largely depend on rain-fed subsistence agriculture to make a living. With funding from UKaid from the Department for International Development, Save the Children works with farming communities affected by recurring floods and drought to enhance their resilience to the impact of climate change.
Photo: Marcos Villalta / Save the Children
To find out more about how UK aid is helping in Mozambique, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/Mozambique
Over the past decade, nearly 58 million girls were married before the age of 18. Child marriage is a truly global problem: In Africa, 42 percent of girls are married before turning 18, but it is also prevalent in parts of Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (in South Asia, for instance, 46 percent of girls are married before turning 18). Child brides often start childbearing early, leading to complications and producing high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality among girls in developing countries. Married girls are often forced to leave school, negatively affecting their ability to work and provide for their families. At the Wilson Center on June 17, 2013, panelists from CARE Ethiopia, Girls Not Brides, the International Center for Research on Women, Population Council, Save the Children, UNICEF, and USAID described current policies and programs working to support young women and delay marriage.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/vision-innovation-and-action-t...
About The Project:
Pioneers of the emerging contemporary craft movement are urging people to join them to create a giant jigsaw embroidered with provocative messages to support Save the Children's Race Against Hunger Campaign 2012/2013
Graffiti knitting street artist, Deadly Knitshade, whose street art includes a Parliament Square phone box cosy and a giant upcycled squid, Hilary Pullen, writer of social media tip blog 'Craft Blog UK', and Mr X Stitch, an original manbroiderer, are joining the Craftivist Collective's Jigsaw Project, which launches on World Food Day on October 16th and runs until the spring, joining the campaign to put hunger at the top of the agenda at the G8 next summer and encouraging us all to be part of the solution to tackle hunger, not part of the problem.
Tried to spend some evenings in the hotel discussing what we saw that day, how people where tackling hunger and child malnutrition issues in Indonesia and what our part to play is to eradicate hunger and suffering ... all whilst doing meditative stitching
About The Project (Oct 2012- March 2013)
Are you a piece?
Pioneers of the emerging contemporary craft movement Mr X Stitch, Deadly Knitshade & Hilary of Craftblog UK are joining the Craftivist Collective to urge the craft community to help us create a giant jigsaw embroidered with provocative messages to support Save the Children's Race Against Hunger Campaign. Wanna join us?
In November 2012 we went on a trip to Indonesia to see how people are tackling child malnutrition there with the support of Save the Children.
What?
Using jigsaw pieces stitched by craftivists (that means you!), the project will create an art installation to raise awareness of the issues of world hunger and injustice. As well as making a piece for the artwork, we're encouraging you to make one for yourself to keep as a reminder to be part of the solution, and to give a piece stitched with the words "I'm a piece" to your MP, to ask them to be the positive change they wish to see in the world. You can find instructions here, your jigsaw template here, suggested slogans here, a story to reflect on whilst stitching here and there's also a video here.- everything you should need!
Why?
The aim is to raise awareness and show that the craft community wants the Government to use its power and influence as host of the 2013 G8 to tackle injustice. Each piece of the puzzle will be stitched with a message to remind us we can all improve the world and help fulfill its potential to be a more beautiful place for all.
Where?
There will be craft events across the country from Manchester to London, Cardiff and Milton Keynes and crafty activists are invited to do the project on their own, with friends or set up their own event, as well as spreading messages and images about the project through their social media platforms using #imapiece. And, of course, we hope you'll sign the Race Against Hunger petition too.
You can help!
Please join the Craftivist Collective's Jigsaw Project, which will run until the spring 2013. Help put hunger at the top of the agenda at the G8 next summer, and encourage us all to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Ms. Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia, visiting Mather to Mather dissection grope at Dalad Health Centre under SCI supported CMAM project Korahe Zone, Somali Region ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2017/Nahom Tesfaye
Nearly half of Yemeni children are at risk of malnutrition and are underweight for their age. Sadly, rampant food insecurity means many children do not know when their next meal will be.
www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6153153/k....
Over the past decade, nearly 58 million girls were married before the age of 18. Child marriage is a truly global problem: In Africa, 42 percent of girls are married before turning 18, but it is also prevalent in parts of Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (in South Asia, for instance, 46 percent of girls are married before turning 18). Child brides often start childbearing early, leading to complications and producing high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality among girls in developing countries. Married girls are often forced to leave school, negatively affecting their ability to work and provide for their families. At the Wilson Center on June 17, 2013, panelists from CARE Ethiopia, Girls Not Brides, the International Center for Research on Women, Population Council, Save the Children, UNICEF, and USAID described current policies and programs working to support young women and delay marriage.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/vision-innovation-and-action-t...
Unloading the boxes of Plumpy Nuts. Another ton delivered for supervised distribution to malnourished children. — at Waat, South Sudan.
About The Project:
Pioneers of the emerging contemporary craft movement are urging people to join them to create a giant jigsaw embroidered with provocative messages to support Save the Children's Race Against Hunger Campaign 2012/2013
Graffiti knitting street artist, Deadly Knitshade, whose street art includes a Parliament Square phone box cosy and a giant upcycled squid, Hilary Pullen, writer of social media tip blog 'Craft Blog UK', and Mr X Stitch, an original manbroiderer, are joining the Craftivist Collective's Jigsaw Project, which launches on World Food Day on October 16th and runs until the spring, joining the campaign to put hunger at the top of the agenda at the G8 next summer and encouraging us all to be part of the solution to tackle hunger, not part of the problem.
Royal Navy sailors have arrived at the island of Guinitacan which suffered extensive damage to buildings and infrastructure during Typhoon Haiyan.
Three people lost their lives and many had wounds from being hit by flying objects, with little medical care provided as there was just one nurse with dwindling medical supplies.
After spotting the village’s distress call where they spelt out HELP on their playground, HMS Daring brought a medical team from Save The Children to set up clinics around the main villages.
A team of sailors also set to work to repair the local school’s roof which had been completely stripped of its corrugated iron sheets, and cleared the inside of debris and stagnant water. The children have not been able to go to school for more than a week.
Pictured: Members of HMS Daring's Ship's Company fix roofing panels on Hagdan's school during the repair effort.
LPHOT Keith Morgan
HMS Daring
Natasha Kaplinsky, Allie Esiri and Helena Bonham Carter at Save the Children's Secret Winter Gala at London's historic Guildhall on 18 November 2015
About The Project (Oct 2012- March 2013)
Are you a piece?
Pioneers of the emerging contemporary craft movement Mr X Stitch, Deadly Knitshade & Hilary of Craftblog UK are joining the Craftivist Collective to urge the craft community to help us create a giant jigsaw embroidered with provocative messages to support Save the Children's Race Against Hunger Campaign. Wanna join us?
In November 2012 we went on a trip to Indonesia to see how people are tackling child malnutrition there with the support of Save the Children.
What?
Using jigsaw pieces stitched by craftivists (that means you!), the project will create an art installation to raise awareness of the issues of world hunger and injustice. As well as making a piece for the artwork, we're encouraging you to make one for yourself to keep as a reminder to be part of the solution, and to give a piece stitched with the words "I'm a piece" to your MP, to ask them to be the positive change they wish to see in the world. You can find instructions here, your jigsaw template here, suggested slogans here, a story to reflect on whilst stitching here and there's also a video here.- everything you should need!
Why?
The aim is to raise awareness and show that the craft community wants the Government to use its power and influence as host of the 2013 G8 to tackle injustice. Each piece of the puzzle will be stitched with a message to remind us we can all improve the world and help fulfill its potential to be a more beautiful place for all.
Where?
There will be craft events across the country from Manchester to London, Cardiff and Milton Keynes and crafty activists are invited to do the project on their own, with friends or set up their own event, as well as spreading messages and images about the project through their social media platforms using #imapiece. And, of course, we hope you'll sign the Race Against Hunger petition too.
You can help!
Please join the Craftivist Collective's Jigsaw Project, which will run until the spring 2013. Help put hunger at the top of the agenda at the G8 next summer, and encourage us all to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Dancer Julianne Hough arrives at the Bvlgari private event honoring Simon Fuller and Paul Haggis to benefit Save The Children and Artists For Peace and Justice on January 13, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California.
(Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images for Bvlgari)
Save the Children ambassador Myleene Klass models a Christmas jumper for Save the Children’s 2012 Christmas Jumper Day.
©Tessa Hallmann/Save the Children
Over the past decade, nearly 58 million girls were married before the age of 18. Child marriage is a truly global problem: In Africa, 42 percent of girls are married before turning 18, but it is also prevalent in parts of Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (in South Asia, for instance, 46 percent of girls are married before turning 18). Child brides often start childbearing early, leading to complications and producing high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality among girls in developing countries. Married girls are often forced to leave school, negatively affecting their ability to work and provide for their families. At the Wilson Center on June 17, 2013, panelists from CARE Ethiopia, Girls Not Brides, the International Center for Research on Women, Population Council, Save the Children, UNICEF, and USAID described current policies and programs working to support young women and delay marriage.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/vision-innovation-and-action-t...
About The Project (Oct 2012- March 2013)
Are you a piece?
Pioneers of the emerging contemporary craft movement Mr X Stitch, Deadly Knitshade & Hilary of Craftblog UK are joining the Craftivist Collective to urge the craft community to help us create a giant jigsaw embroidered with provocative messages to support Save the Children's Race Against Hunger Campaign. Wanna join us?
In November 2012 we went on a trip to Indonesia to see how people are tackling child malnutrition there with the support of Save the Children.
What?
Using jigsaw pieces stitched by craftivists (that means you!), the project will create an art installation to raise awareness of the issues of world hunger and injustice. As well as making a piece for the artwork, we're encouraging you to make one for yourself to keep as a reminder to be part of the solution, and to give a piece stitched with the words "I'm a piece" to your MP, to ask them to be the positive change they wish to see in the world. You can find instructions here, your jigsaw template here, suggested slogans here, a story to reflect on whilst stitching here and there's also a video here.- everything you should need!
Why?
The aim is to raise awareness and show that the craft community wants the Government to use its power and influence as host of the 2013 G8 to tackle injustice. Each piece of the puzzle will be stitched with a message to remind us we can all improve the world and help fulfill its potential to be a more beautiful place for all.
Where?
There will be craft events across the country from Manchester to London, Cardiff and Milton Keynes and crafty activists are invited to do the project on their own, with friends or set up their own event, as well as spreading messages and images about the project through their social media platforms using #imapiece. And, of course, we hope you'll sign the Race Against Hunger petition too.
You can help!
Please join the Craftivist Collective's Jigsaw Project, which will run until the spring 2013. Help put hunger at the top of the agenda at the G8 next summer, and encourage us all to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Over the past decade, nearly 58 million girls were married before the age of 18. Child marriage is a truly global problem: In Africa, 42 percent of girls are married before turning 18, but it is also prevalent in parts of Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (in South Asia, for instance, 46 percent of girls are married before turning 18). Child brides often start childbearing early, leading to complications and producing high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality among girls in developing countries. Married girls are often forced to leave school, negatively affecting their ability to work and provide for their families. At the Wilson Center on June 17, 2013, panelists from CARE Ethiopia, Girls Not Brides, the International Center for Research on Women, Population Council, Save the Children, UNICEF, and USAID described current policies and programs working to support young women and delay marriage.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/vision-innovation-and-action-t...
Royal Navy sailors have arrived at the island of Guintacan which suffered extensive damage to buildings and infrastructure during Typhoon Haiyan.
Three people lost their lives and many had wounds from being hit by flying objects, with little medical care provided as there was just one nurse with dwindling medical supplies.
After spotting the village’s distress call where they spelt out HELP on their playground, HMS Daring brought a medical team from Save The Children to set up clinics around the main villages.
A team of sailors also set to work to repair the local school’s roof which had been completely stripped of its corrugated iron sheets, and cleared the inside of debris and stagnant water. The children have not been able to go to school for more than a week.
Pictured: Members of HMS Daring's Ship's Company fix roofing panels on Hadgan's school during the repair effort.
Pictured: Members of HMS Daring begin work on repairing the school roof in Hagden.
LPHOT Keith Morgan
HMS Daring
Over the past decade, nearly 58 million girls were married before the age of 18. Child marriage is a truly global problem: In Africa, 42 percent of girls are married before turning 18, but it is also prevalent in parts of Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (in South Asia, for instance, 46 percent of girls are married before turning 18). Child brides often start childbearing early, leading to complications and producing high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality among girls in developing countries. Married girls are often forced to leave school, negatively affecting their ability to work and provide for their families. At the Wilson Center on June 17, 2013, panelists from CARE Ethiopia, Girls Not Brides, the International Center for Research on Women, Population Council, Save the Children, UNICEF, and USAID described current policies and programs working to support young women and delay marriage.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/vision-innovation-and-action-t...
El 14 de febrero de 2017 tuvo lugar un diálogo en el que participaron Eva Silván, Responsable de la Sede de Save the Children en Euskadi, Juan José Ibarretxe, Director del Agirre Lehendakaria Center for Social and Political Studies, y Gorka Urrutia, Director del Instituto de Derechos Humanos de Deusto. Más información: bit.ly/2leJahf
Imagen tomada por Belén Ibarrola.
HMS Daring has today loaded her stores at Cebu port with lifesaving humanitarian aid and is on her way to Philippine islands that have been without help since Typhoon Haiyan struck.
The flight crew flew their Lynx helicopter on six recces of remote areas for signs of destruction, covering a total of 48 islands and 32,000 nautical miles squared. From the images that came back, the command team have now identified several areas that are desperately in need of aid.
HMS Daring, which was in the South China Sea as part of the exercise, immediately changed course to head for the stricken state where more than 10,000 people are believed dead. It is estimated she will arrive at the Philippines in three days' time.
PO(PHOT) Paul A'Barrow
HMS Daring
Another in my growing collection of First buses which carry the national advertising livery for Save the Children. This is First South Yorkshire 30562, an Alexander ALX400 bodied Volvo B7TL, pictured here leaving Sheffield bus station on the X15 to Aston.
Congrats and many thanks to www.flickr.com/photos/nangreg for her winning bid on this auction.
I'm auctioning this print to help the people of Japan following the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
I would like you to start the bidding at $10.00 US.
Size and type of print.
This print is going to be on an 8X10 canvas ordered through Snapfish. If you see the note on this image (just move your cursor over the photograph) that is the approximate area that will be on the face of the canvas. The border will be wrapped around the wood frame for the canvas.
Please leave a comment with your offer, please only comment if you wish to bid, thanks. Any comments that do not include a bid will be removed until the end of this auction.
The highest bidder at the time the auction ends will donate that amount direct to a trusted charity helping with the relief effort in Japan, such as:
British Red Cross:
Donate to the British Red Cross
Japanese Red Cross:
Donate to the Japanese Red Cross
Save the Children:
World Vision:
Oxfam:
WANT TO BID - BUT YOU DON'T HAVE A FLICKR ACCOUNT?
Please just email me with a bid and I will place the bid in the comments on your behalf:
draper.dean@yahoo.com
The bidding will end on Monday the 4th of April, 2011 at 06:00pm Central Time (US & Canada). At this time, the person who wrote/commented or emailed the highest amount will have to give this amount to a legitimate charity involved in the effort for aid for the people of Japan. On proof of donation (please take a screen grab of your donation confirmation page!), I will arrange for the print to made and shipped to you.
I will pay for the print to be produced and pay for shipping, so all of your donation goes straight to the cause.
For more information on this:
CPA - CHARITY PRINT AUCTIONS - JAPAN
Moses Kollie at the home of his caretaker, Vivian Kekula.
Moses is 10 years old. Vivian is 28 and tells this story:
One day her father got sick. Then she got sick too with vomiting, diarrhea and red eyes. Next her mother and cousin got sick. They were cared for at home by Vivian’s sister Victoria, who is a nursing student. She made makeshift personal protective equipment using a garbage bag, masks, etc. However eventually it was too much for the sister to handle and they called an ambulance. The ambulance took 5 days to arrive. It transported the 4 of them to the Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) at JFK Hospital in Monrovia. Vivian’s cousin died there, but she and her parents survived. Vivian was at the ETU for 19 days.
While Vivian was at the JFK ETU she met a little boy named Moses Kollie. He is originally from somewhere in Bong County; however he and his parents had travelled to Monrovia for a funeral. They stayed in Monrovia – Chocolate City Community - with family for a few weeks, and ended up getting infected. Both of his parents died. Moses was shunned and no one gave him any help. He was found by a policeman lying alone on the side of the road. The policeman took him to the JFK ETU and he survived.
When it came time for Moses to be discharged, the staff at JFK wanted to take him to an orphanage. He refused to go and grabbed onto Vivian’s hand and would not let it go. Eventually Vivian agreed to take him home and care for him while efforts are made to locate Moses’s extended family.
Staff from JFK are following up on Moses to ensure that he is being well cared for. Save the Children through its Family Tracing and Reunification work is trying to find Moses’s family. Moses doesn’t have many details about where he is from. He has mentioned the name of a school in Bong County that he went to, however at times the name of this school changes. Save the Children has asked its local partner in Bong to help track down Moses’s family through the school and teacher names that he has mentioned. Vivian also has her friends in the neighborhood where Moses was found trying to find his relatives.
Save the Children has also provided Moses and Vivian’s family with a survivor kit.
Majed, who is eight years old, has been in Za'atari camp, Jordan, for nearly one year since fleeing the conflict in Syria. He is suspected to be autistic and is extremely hyperactive. Majed has been lost several times inside the camp and has returned to his family by the efforts of the Lost Child Center staff.
Majed has been living in Za'atri Camp with his parents and siblings for eight months. The first time he wandered off was during the first ten days in the camp.
Majed's father, Salem: "You can imagine how we must feel as parents to lose our child here. The first time he was missing for more than three hours. We really did not know in which direction to start from. Back home, we had our own house with a gate that was always locked. We had more control over Majed's safety".
Ever since Save the Children established the Lost Child Center, supported by UN OCHA, 15 children on average have been daily reunited with their families. Through the staff's community mobilization efforts, parents, street leaders, imams and families are well aware of the center's services. At the camp entrance, police and security guards are familiar with the Center and focal points of contact if a child wanders off the camp. The center staff and volunteers have created child friendly maps, a free hotline service, identification cards for all families, and different colored bracelets for each of the camp's 12 districts.
Syrian volunteers working at the Lost Child Center are identified by their green t-shirts and caps. The Center has a large green flag with a yellow circle in the middle for children and parents to easily identify its location. More than 1,150 lost children have been reunited with their families since the Center began functioning in February 2013.
About The Project (Oct 2012- March 2013)
Are you a piece?
Pioneers of the emerging contemporary craft movement Mr X Stitch, Deadly Knitshade & Hilary of Craftblog UK are joining the Craftivist Collective to urge the craft community to help us create a giant jigsaw embroidered with provocative messages to support Save the Children's Race Against Hunger Campaign. Wanna join us?
In November 2012 we went on a trip to Indonesia to see how people are tackling child malnutrition there with the support of Save the Children.
What?
Using jigsaw pieces stitched by craftivists (that means you!), the project will create an art installation to raise awareness of the issues of world hunger and injustice. As well as making a piece for the artwork, we're encouraging you to make one for yourself to keep as a reminder to be part of the solution, and to give a piece stitched with the words "I'm a piece" to your MP, to ask them to be the positive change they wish to see in the world. You can find instructions here, your jigsaw template here, suggested slogans here, a story to reflect on whilst stitching here and there's also a video here.- everything you should need!
Why?
The aim is to raise awareness and show that the craft community wants the Government to use its power and influence as host of the 2013 G8 to tackle injustice. Each piece of the puzzle will be stitched with a message to remind us we can all improve the world and help fulfill its potential to be a more beautiful place for all.
Where?
There will be craft events across the country from Manchester to London, Cardiff and Milton Keynes and crafty activists are invited to do the project on their own, with friends or set up their own event, as well as spreading messages and images about the project through their social media platforms using #imapiece. And, of course, we hope you'll sign the Race Against Hunger petition too.
You can help!
Please join the Craftivist Collective's Jigsaw Project, which will run until the spring 2013. Help put hunger at the top of the agenda at the G8 next summer, and encourage us all to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Ever since Save the Children established the Lost Child Center, supported by UN OCHA, 15 children on average have been daily reunited with their families. Through the staff's community mobilization efforts, parents, street leaders, imams and families are well aware of the center's services. At the camp entrance, police and security guards are familiar with the Center and focal points of contact if a child wanders off the camp. The center staff and volunteers have created child friendly maps, a free hotline service, identification cards for all families, and different coloured bracelets for each of the camp's 12 districts.
Syrian volunteers working at the Lost Child Center are identified by their green t-shirts and caps. The Center has a large green flag with a yellow circle in the middle for children and parents to easily identify its location. More than 1,150 lost children have been reunited with their families since the Center began functioning in February 2013.
About The Project:
Pioneers of the emerging contemporary craft movement are urging people to join them to create a giant jigsaw embroidered with provocative messages to support Save the Children's Race Against Hunger Campaign 2012/2013
Graffiti knitting street artist, Deadly Knitshade, whose street art includes a Parliament Square phone box cosy and a giant upcycled squid, Hilary Pullen, writer of social media tip blog 'Craft Blog UK', and Mr X Stitch, an original manbroiderer, are joining the Craftivist Collective's Jigsaw Project, which launches on World Food Day on October 16th and runs until the spring, joining the campaign to put hunger at the top of the agenda at the G8 next summer and encouraging us all to be part of the solution to tackle hunger, not part of the problem.
Google has put out a useful crisis response tool to help people find loved ones, provide information, or find maps, general information, and places to donate.
Here's a super list that Annie Lennox compiled
"For your interest and consideration….
The Philippine Red Cross is deploying rescue teams to affected areas of the country. The British Red Cross and the Australian Red Crosshave also launched appeals.
www.redcross.org.uk/typhoonappeal/
Unicef is asking for funds to help children in urgent need of access to safe water, hygiene supplies, food, shelter and a safe environment.
www.unicef.org.uk/UNICEFs-Work/Emergencies/
The UN's World Food Programme is providing emergency food assistance to families and children.
Oxfam is raising funds to deploy water and sanitation materials to those affected.
donate.oxfam.org.uk/emergency/philippines?intcmp=hp_276_h...
ShelterBox is working to assist families affected by the typhoon.
Care is delivering food, water, shelter and other essentials to the survivors.
www.careinternational.org.uk/dec-philippines-typhoon-appeal
Save the Children has launched a typhoon Haiyan children's relief fund to support their responses to urgent needs.
secure.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.8855857...
Christian Aid has deployed three rapid response teams to affected areas in Samar, Leyte and Panay to assess the needs of communities. It is working with local partners to provide food, shelter repair materials and hygiene kits.
www.christianaid.org.uk/emergencies/current/philippines-t...
ChildFund Australia is calling for donations to help provide emergency relief items and safe spaces for children.
www.childfund.org.au/appeal/cyclone-haiyan-appeal
Plan UK is providing shelters, hygiene kits and school equipment to families affected by the typhoon.
Australia for UNHCR has launched an appeal to help deliver emergency tents, plastic sheeting, kitchen sets, blankets, solar lanterns, and other essential relief items.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has sent an emergency team to Manila and launched a $10m appeal in order to implement the most appropriate response.
The World Food Programme plans to fly food, logistics and communications equipment to Cebu airport, which will become a hub for airlift through government partners to Tacloban.
Logistics equipment including mobile storage units, pre-fabricated offices and generators, is being sent from the UN humanitarian response depot (UNHRD) in Malaysia to set up operational hubs at Tacloban and Cebu airports. Some 300kg of IT equipment including digital radios are being sent from UNHRD in Dubai. The WFP is drawing upon $2m to buy high-energy biscuits and rice, but will be appealing for more funds as the needs become clearer.
www.wfp.org/logistics/humanitarian-response-depot
HelpAge is working with the coalition of services of the elderly (COSE), to send staff to affected areas. It is developing a relief plan to meet older people's most urgent needs.
www.helpage.org/newsroom/latest-news/typhoon-haiyan-affec...
ActionAid has put a local assessment team on standby in Vietnam.
www.actionaid.org.uk/news-and-views/news-blog/2013/11/08/...
MSF's emergency teams arrived in the Philippines on Saturday. Four cargo planes carrying 329 tonnes of medical and relief items will arrive in the coming days, flying out of Dubai and Ostende.
www.msf.org/article/typhoon-haiyan-interview-msf-emergenc...
UNHCR, the UN agency for refugees, plans an emergency airlift of tents, plastic sheets, blankets, mats, water containers and cooking utensils for 16,000 families. UNHCR will also distribute 50,000 solar lanterns.
Anglican Overseas Aid is swinging into action to bring urgent aid to people
anglicanoverseasaid.org.au/our-work/current-emergencies/p...
Also:
Doctors Without Borders
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
To help from US, text AID to 80108 to give $10 donation to @mGiveFoundation #Philippines Typhoon Disaster Relief Fund go.usa.gov/WXtB
Over the past decade, nearly 58 million girls were married before the age of 18. Child marriage is a truly global problem: In Africa, 42 percent of girls are married before turning 18, but it is also prevalent in parts of Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (in South Asia, for instance, 46 percent of girls are married before turning 18). Child brides often start childbearing early, leading to complications and producing high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality among girls in developing countries. Married girls are often forced to leave school, negatively affecting their ability to work and provide for their families. At the Wilson Center on June 17, 2013, panelists from CARE Ethiopia, Girls Not Brides, the International Center for Research on Women, Population Council, Save the Children, UNICEF, and USAID described current policies and programs working to support young women and delay marriage.
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In humanitarian situations across the world, children are likely to make up half or more of the population affected by conflicts or disasters. On October 29, 2012, the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG) launched a long-awaited set of interagency Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action developed as common guidelines for the global humanitarian community. USAID’s Neil Boothby, UNICEF’s Annette Lyth, and Mike Penrose from Save the Children discussed the new standards at a press conference at the United Nations Office at Geneva. Listen to the press briefing at www.unog.ch/80256EDD006B9C2E/httpPressConferences?ReadFor...
Visit cpwg.net/minimum-standards/ for more information about this initiative and the full text of the standards.
U.S. Mission Photo by Eric Bridiers
(August 2010): Isabelle Fuhrman from the movie Orphan at the "TJ Maxx Helps" booth in Hollywood, CA to raise awareness for Save the Children.
Royal Navy sailors have arrived at the island of Guintacan which suffered extensive damage to buildings and infrastructure during Typhoon Haiyan.
Three people lost their lives and many had wounds from being hit by flying objects, with little medical care provided as there was just one nurse with dwindling medical supplies.
After spotting the village’s distress call where they spelt out HELP on their playground, HMS Daring brought a medical team from Save The Children to set up clinics around the main villages.
A team of sailors also set to work to repair the local school’s roof which had been completely stripped of its corrugated iron sheets, and cleared the inside of debris and stagnant water. The children have not been able to go to school for more than a week.
Pictured: Members of HMS Daring's Ship's Company fix roofing panels on Hagdan's school during the repair effort.
LPHOT Keith Morgan
HMS Daring
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Pioneers of the emerging contemporary craft movement are urging people to join them to create a giant jigsaw embroidered with provocative messages to support Save the Children's Race Against Hunger Campaign 2012/2013
Graffiti knitting street artist, Deadly Knitshade, whose street art includes a Parliament Square phone box cosy and a giant upcycled squid, Hilary Pullen, writer of social media tip blog 'Craft Blog UK', and Mr X Stitch, an original manbroiderer, are joining the Craftivist Collective's Jigsaw Project, which launches on World Food Day on October 16th and runs until the spring, joining the campaign to put hunger at the top of the agenda at the G8 next summer and encouraging us all to be part of the solution to tackle hunger, not part of the problem.
Over the past decade, nearly 58 million girls were married before the age of 18. Child marriage is a truly global problem: In Africa, 42 percent of girls are married before turning 18, but it is also prevalent in parts of Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (in South Asia, for instance, 46 percent of girls are married before turning 18). Child brides often start childbearing early, leading to complications and producing high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality among girls in developing countries. Married girls are often forced to leave school, negatively affecting their ability to work and provide for their families. At the Wilson Center on June 17, 2013, panelists from CARE Ethiopia, Girls Not Brides, the International Center for Research on Women, Population Council, Save the Children, UNICEF, and USAID described current policies and programs working to support young women and delay marriage.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/vision-innovation-and-action-t...
Ever since Save the Children established the Lost Child Center, supported by UN OCHA, 15 children on average have been daily reunited with their families. Through the staff's community mobilization efforts, parents, street leaders, imams and families are well aware of the center's services. At the camp entrance, police and security guards are familiar with the Center and focal points of contact if a child wanders off the camp. The center staff and volunteers have created child friendly maps, a free hotline service, identification cards for all families, and different coloured bracelets for each of the camp's 12 districts.
Syrian volunteers working at the Lost Child Center are identified by their green t-shirts and caps. The Center has a large green flag with a yellow circle in the middle for children and parents to easily identify its location. More than 1,150 lost children have been reunited with their families since the Center began functioning in February 2013.
Pregnant women are provided with care throughout their pregnancies in all supported health facilities. Women are encouraged to attend several consultations throughout their pregnancy and to give birth at the health facility where they can be assisted by a skilled midwife. Before the crisis, CAR had the third highest maternal mortality rates in the world and it is likely that the situation has deteriorated since.
Photo credit: Save the Children/Mark Kaye
Over the past decade, nearly 58 million girls were married before the age of 18. Child marriage is a truly global problem: In Africa, 42 percent of girls are married before turning 18, but it is also prevalent in parts of Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (in South Asia, for instance, 46 percent of girls are married before turning 18). Child brides often start childbearing early, leading to complications and producing high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality among girls in developing countries. Married girls are often forced to leave school, negatively affecting their ability to work and provide for their families. At the Wilson Center on June 17, 2013, panelists from CARE Ethiopia, Girls Not Brides, the International Center for Research on Women, Population Council, Save the Children, UNICEF, and USAID described current policies and programs working to support young women and delay marriage.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/vision-innovation-and-action-t...
While building the Pond Sand Filter with Save the Children, I asked you guys on Twitter (twitter.com/uncultured) if we could give up the naming rights to the filter and give the honor to someone in the village. You voted yes. Here's who you honored.
This is 18 year old Saiful Islam. He's too poor to ever have anything named after himself. In order to support himself, he left his village in Southern Bangladesh to work in a garment factory (or "sweat shop" by some) in Dhaka City.
In this photo, I ask him to write his name on a piece of paper. He didn't know why at the time. The reason is I wanted to get the spelling right on the signboard that was made in his honor.
Naming the Pond Sand Filter after Saiful also has had a benefit to the community. Saiful is actually the son of the community caretaker of the Pond Sand Filter. It is hoped that the sense of family pride will make sure that this Pond Sand Filter will last for years to come.
Video of Water Filter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJubQzKYMGg
A Save the Children staff member registering children at an outreach site in Kanjara village where we're distributing packets of high-nutrient peanut paste to families who are struggling to survive, Wajir South District, Kenya. A severe drought in East Africa is causing malnutrition rates to soar and threatening the lives of children throughout the region. Pastoralist families have been hit especially hard by the situation, as the drought is killing the livestock on which they depend for milk, meat, and income.
Photo Credit: Colin Crowley/Save the Children
About The Project:
Pioneers of the emerging contemporary craft movement are urging people to join them to create a giant jigsaw embroidered with provocative messages to support Save the Children's Race Against Hunger Campaign 2012/2013
Graffiti knitting street artist, Deadly Knitshade, whose street art includes a Parliament Square phone box cosy and a giant upcycled squid, Hilary Pullen, writer of social media tip blog 'Craft Blog UK', and Mr X Stitch, an original manbroiderer, are joining the Craftivist Collective's Jigsaw Project, which launches on World Food Day on October 16th and runs until the spring, joining the campaign to put hunger at the top of the agenda at the G8 next summer and encouraging us all to be part of the solution to tackle hunger, not part of the problem.
Over the past decade, nearly 58 million girls were married before the age of 18. Child marriage is a truly global problem: In Africa, 42 percent of girls are married before turning 18, but it is also prevalent in parts of Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (in South Asia, for instance, 46 percent of girls are married before turning 18). Child brides often start childbearing early, leading to complications and producing high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality among girls in developing countries. Married girls are often forced to leave school, negatively affecting their ability to work and provide for their families. At the Wilson Center on June 17, 2013, panelists from CARE Ethiopia, Girls Not Brides, the International Center for Research on Women, Population Council, Save the Children, UNICEF, and USAID described current policies and programs working to support young women and delay marriage.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/vision-innovation-and-action-t...
With its partners, the EU provides assistance to meet the most urgent needs of the most vulnerable in Ukraine. EU’s humanitarian aid in Eastern Ukraine includes education and psychosocial support to children as in this Community Center in Avdiivka run by Save the Children. The center and its mobile teams conduct signature programs for children and their parents with a focus on psychosocial support. Ukraine, October 2017
© European Union/ECHO/Oleksandr Ratushniak