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Educate A Child

6 months of night school

Barefoot College

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LIBERIA: Go to school or go to jail

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: IRIN Seven-year-old Assatou has been selling grilled plantains at a busy junction on the outskirts of the Liberian capital, Monrovia, for two years. "My family can't afford to send me to school," she says with a sigh. "So I learned how to cook plantain instead."...

3 comments | Sep 21, 2007    


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Control Asthma

Education for kids

Asthma & Allergy Fndn

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NIH: Create Action Plans to Control Kids' Asthma

by (author unknown), NPR Topics: Children's Health

Asthma accounts for two million emergency room visits a year, with September being the peak month for attacks that send children to hospital emergency rooms. The National Institutes of Health is encouraging doctors to create asthma action plans with young patients....

add a comment | Sep 06, 2007    


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Vaccinate A Child

Full immunization

Plan USA

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INTERVIEW-New vaccines spur progress in global polio fight

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: Reuters By Laura MacInnis GENEVA, Aug 27 (Reuters) - New vaccines have sharply reduced the number of children paralysed by polio and raised hopes that a $5 billion campaign to wipe it out may be close to ...

add a comment | Aug 27, 2007    


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Build A Community

Grassroots development

CHF International

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UNHCR hails decision to let Iraqi children attend school in Jordan

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees The UN refugee agency has welcomed and praised the Jordanian government's decision to allow tens of thousands of Iraqi children to enrol in local schools. Some 50,000 children are expected to register for schools by September 15....

add a comment | Aug 20, 2007    


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Educate A Child

One month after-school

Mercy Housing

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Cloud

by wits, A Poem A Day

I wish I could take a fluffy cloud home and feel the softness. I wish I could take a cloud home and bounce on it like a trampoline. I wish I could go home, lie on my bed, and use a white fluffy cloud as a pillow. I wish I could...

add a comment | Aug 20, 2007    

   


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On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble

by By JOE NOCERA, NYT > Children and Youth

A battle between employees and their company over in-house day care may be representative of greater changes at Google....

add a comment | Jul 05, 2008    


Children, Also Serving as They Only Stand and Wait

by By NEIL GENZLINGER, NYT > Children and Youth

If only certain documentaries for grown-ups were as succinct and well executed as this installment of “Nick News With Linda Ellerbee.”...

add a comment | Jul 05, 2008    


French youngsters donate toys to uprooted children in Liberia

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: UNHCR A Parisian museum sends hundreds of donated toys to returnee and internally displaced children in Liberia with the help of an aviation charity and UNHCR....

add a comment | Jul 04, 2008    


LESOTHO: Water running on empty

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: IRIN Three parched years in a row have drained Lesotho's water sources and thousands of people that are already facing chronic food insecurity risk losing access to water, the spread of disease and death....

add a comment | Jul 04, 2008    


FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, July 4

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: Reuters July 4 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan reported until 1330 GMT on Friday: *shows new or updated item *NURISTAN - An air strike by U.S.-led troops killed 22 civilians ...

add a comment | Jul 04, 2008    


US-led air raid kills 22 civilians-Afghan official

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: Reuters (Adds U.S. military comment, background) ASADABAD, Afghanistan, July 4 (Reuters) - Twenty-two civilians, including women and children, were killed in an air strike by U.S.-led forces on Friday in ...

add a comment | Jul 04, 2008    


US-led air raid kills 22 civilians-Afghan official

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: Reuters (Adds U.S. military comment, background) ASADABAD, Afghanistan, July 4 (Reuters) - Twenty-two civilians, including women and children, were killed in an air strike by U.S.-led forces on Friday in ...

add a comment | Jul 04, 2008    


Blind Ambition: The Ultimate Braille Challenge

by (author unknown), NPR Topics: Children's Health

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add a comment | Jul 04, 2008    


Spare Times: For Children

by By LAUREL GRAEBER, NYT > Children and Youth

FOR CHILDREN....

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Victor Remer, Children’s Aid Society Leader, Dies at 88

by By DOUGLAS MARTIN, NYT > Children and Youth

In the 1960s and ’70s, Mr. Remer pushed the agency in grittier, more urgent directions, including addressing the problems of young people convicted of minor crimes....

add a comment | Jul 04, 2008