children Archive
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"Safe Play Area" project by Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society
Posted on February 23, 2010 | 3 CommentsSince 2005, the Red Crescent Society of Azerbaijan has been implementing a community based project known as the “safe play area” project across 47 village communities in areas of the country which are former conflict areas. The aim of the project is to provide children with a safe place where they can play without being exposed to danger from mines and explosive remnants of war. -
Senegalese artist Ismael Lo supports Our world. Your move.
Posted on December 21, 2009 | No CommentsNumerous little arms reach out for a tall smiling man in a school yard in Dakar, Senegal. Singer and songwriter Ismael Lo has come to visit the school he founded... -
Five years later, the children of Aceh smile
Posted on December 10, 2009 | No CommentsEditor’s note: Ardi Sofinar is Communications & Public Relations Officer at the Indonesian Red Cross (Palang Merah Indonesia, PMI) in Aceh. The Indonesian Red Cross, in collaboration with the Japanese... -
Indonesia: More Clean Hands on Global Handwashing Day 2009
Posted on December 5, 2009 | 2 CommentsEditor’s note: This article is co-authored by Cici Riesmasari (Communications Officer, IFRC in Indonesia) and Nanda Aprilia (Communications Associate of the American Red Cross in Indonesia) Mid October was a... -
Road to Copenhagen: Educate and inform yourself about climate change
Posted on November 23, 2009 | No CommentsEditor’s note: After we discussed preparedness and the concept of “early warning, early action” last week, it became evident that we need to educate ourselves and learn about climate change.... -
Preparedness is key to responding to the effects of climate change: the example of Viet Nam
Posted on November 17, 2009 | 2 CommentsEditor’s note: Jason Smith travelled in April 2009 in Viet Nam where he visited at-risk villages and spoke to locals, officials as well as children about climate change, its effects... -
Faces of the Tsunami: Bang Kang Kao primary school
Posted on November 12, 2009 | No CommentsEditor’s note: Every week leading up to the 5-year, 26 December anniversary of the tsunami disaster, we will share a snapshot of life almost five years after the cataclysmic event.... -
Faces of the Tsunami: Mariyam
Posted on November 4, 2009 | No CommentsEditor’s note: Every week leading up to the 5-year, 26 December anniversary of the tsunami disaster, we will share a snapshot of life almost five years after the cataclysmic event.... -
Faces of the Tsunami
Posted on October 21, 2009 | No CommentsEditor’s note: Every week leading up to the 5-year, 26 December anniversary of the tsunami disaster, we will share a snapshot of life almost five years after the cataclysmic event.
Almost five years since the tsunami disaster, the Red Cross Red Crescent has helped hundreds of thousands of survivors take significant steps along the road to recovery.
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Former child soldier: 'They would point a gun at me and tell me to kill someone, so I did'
Posted on August 19, 2009 | No CommentsThe testimony below is that of a 17-year-old former child soldier and current student of the Child Advocacy and Rehabilitation Centre (CAR) run by the Liberian Red Cross, which supports... -
Forgotten Childhoods
Posted on August 11, 2009 | No CommentsThis article was submitted by 7th-grade student Elena from Seattle Girls’ School in Washington, United States. Militia groups in countries around the globe see children as easy targets for army... -
Sandra, imprisoned guerrilla fighter: “being separated from my child is extremely hard”
Posted on July 3, 2009 | No CommentsMy name is Sandra. I am 30 years old and an inmate of the women’s prison “The Good Shepherd” in Bogotá, Colombia. A friend of mine outside this jail takes... -
“I told myself this child must grow”
Posted on July 3, 2009 | No CommentsThirty-seven-year-old Noella Senawema, a widow and mother of five children who lives in the village of Sake in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tells how she found an abandoned... -
“Everybody around here knows about Mama Bona, because it is Mama Bona who looks after the kids”
Posted on June 18, 2009 | 1 CommentFor over 15 years, 49-year-old Mama Bona has taken care of children separated from their families as a result of conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. When she... -
Simple gestures make a big difference
Posted on June 2, 2009 | 4 CommentsI attended a special Child Advocacy and Rehabilitation (CAR) graduation ceremony in a border town in the southern part of Sierra Leone on 18 April, 2009.The towns name is Kailahun...
