International Save the Children Alliance
A child alone
Ten-year-old Gasiwga fled from home, about 35km from Goma, with his father. Gaswiga is now alone since his mother, father and five siblings have died. He is being helped by another family staying in Goma.
• Hear from Gaswiga
Former child soldiers
David and Gerard were abducted as they walked home from school near their village.
• Hear from them as they share their story
Education after the Eartquake
Three individuals refect upon how Save the Children commitment to Education in Emergencies has changed their lives
• Hear from Zhao Weiyi
• Xu Kesheng is a maths teacher and a Save the Children volunteer
• Read Peng Jing's story here
Min Min returns to school
Through the generosity of our donors, Save the Children is able to provide the opportunity for children like Min Min to return to their education, despite the hardships caused by Cyclone Nargis.
Dealing with the aftermath of the China Earthquake
• Three-year-old Pu Ben's story
• Hear from Jiang Xiantao, age 11
Psycho-social care for the children affected by the earthquake in China
Save the Children has recently sent Anne-Sophie Dybdahl, a Danish psychologist, to China to help the children who lived through the devastating earthquake. Follow her reports here.
Reactions in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma)
• A Save the Children staff member's diary
• Children's stories
• One family's struggle
Kenyan Violence
• Life in Kenyan Camps: Jane Njeri's Story
• Life in Kenyan Camps: Maria Nahuka's Story
• An aid worker's diary: Kenyan children bear the brunt of violence in Kenya
• Life in Kenyan Camps: Naomi Wanjiru Waraga's Story
Mozambique Floods: Voices from the field
By Chris McIvor, January 2008, Programme Director for Save the Children UK in Mozambique
• Is two bad years in a row impossible?
• Why are there so many emergencies in Mozambique?
• Our response
Tale from a tattered family
Survivors of Cyclone Sidr, December 2007.
Read about how the children in one family are piecing their lives back together.
Surviving Cyclone Sidr: Coping with the storm
A cyclone survivor's story, November 2007.
Read the story of Salma, a mother with four small children.
Surviving Cyclone Sidr
A Child survivor's story, November 2007.
Read the story of Nazma, 12, who survived Cyclone Sidr.
Cyclone Sidr: Live from the Scene
Blog entry, November 2007.
From David Wightwick, Save the Children's Emergencies Adviser in Bangladesh.
Josie in Liberia
Josie's blog, October 2007.
Josie Cohen, campaigner for Rewrite the Future, writes about her trip to Liberia.
Mimi in Angola
Tales from Angola by Save the Children Denmark CEO Mimi Jakobsen
• The root of all good June 2007
• Can boys be witches? June 2007
• Dressed as a gentleman June 2007
Jiffer in Afghanistan
Life in Afghanistan by Save the Children staff member Jiffer Bourguignon
• An introduction to 'Rewrite the Future' in Afghanistan December 2006
• 'It's just too cold to fight' January 2007
• The Shamali Valley March 2007