Nov14
Working in the Communications Department of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, I often get intimate glimpses of people’s lives all over the world. Part of my work entails researching photos of children and their families, many who live in developing countries and suffer from poverty, disease, disaster and other ills.
The images range from the horrible to the hopeful: a child succumbing quietly to fatal malnutrition, preschoolers in rapt attention as a teacher explains how to spot landmines, mothers in colorful wraps with rosy infants waiting for lifesaving vaccines.
Even among these powerful images, a few stand out as extraordinary. These are pictures not just of children, but by them.
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Nov11
One day last month, twelve-year-old Saliu came to his father, complaining of terrible stomach pains. Saliu’s health quickly deteriorated, and his father rushed him to a hospital in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, where he was diagnosed with cholera.
Saliu is among many thousands who have fallen ill since cholera broke out in Guinea-Bissau in May. We wrote about it in early September. But, according to Reuters, the disease has still been spreading at a rate of more than 1,000 infections per month. Worst hit are the capital and regions in the west and south.
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Nov07
Even after working on child survival issues for over a year, I still find myself occasionally forgetting that my old assumptions about HIV and AIDS are false. These are not
Oct29
I’d like to call your attention to an exciting opportunity for you to put your name on the line for child survival: the U.S. Fund for UNICEF’s new online petition in support of a Presidential Initiative to Accelerate Child Survival.
Please join us in telling the next President of the United States that Americans want him to make global child survival a top priority. Ask him to do whatever it takes to save the 25,000 children under age five who die every day from preventable causes.
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Oct22
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