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Watching your child starve to death
It’s difficult for us to keep looking at the news reports of the famine that has just been declared. When water comes from the turn of a tap and food means a short trip to the supermarket, the African food crisis feels so far away. But for the mothers who have to look into their [...]
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Struggling to survive – Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa
You have probably been grizzling a lot over the past year watching your grocery bill creeping up and up each week. With food prices noticeably increasing, we walk away from the supermarket with less and less each time. It sometimes feels like we don’t have a lot to come and go on, that is until [...]
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UNICEF photo exhibition ‘A Far Cry’ launches September 6
Girls as young as eight have been attacked, raped or killed walking this route.
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Ten cents can help save a child’s life
Every day, more than 4,000 children under the age of five die for want of a tiny bit of salt, sugar and some clean water. Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is a fast and effective way to combat the potentially fatal effects of diarrhoea, which remains the second most common cause of death among young children behind [...]
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