June
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- Monday 30 June 2008 Humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwe is in the grip of a severe economic and political crisis. Officially, inflation is a staggering 15,000%. One-third of children are chronically malnourished.
- Monday 30 June 2008 Ben Affleck meets former child soldiers in Save the Children programme in eastern Congo
- Academy Award-winning actor and director Ben Affleck spent a day in May visiting former child soldiers, who are part of a Save the Children programme in Goma, a town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
- Monday 30 June 2008 Children pay the price for climate change
- Save the Children has today called for a dramatic shake up in dealing with natural disasters linked to climate change
- Wednesday 18 June 2008 Food crisis: emergency appeal for children in Ethiopia
- Save the Children is appealing for US$20 million to help around 900,000 people, including 325,000 children, who are bearing the brunt of the food crisis in Ethiopia.
- Monday 16 June 2008 Giant sleepover breaks world record, helping children all over the world
- Children gave up their beds at home on Saturday night to sleep out at over a thousand venues as part of The Giant Sleepover World Record attempt, raising money for children caught up in emergencies
- Friday 13 June 2008 Leamington festival goers get the chance to save children's lives
- Festival season is here and Save the Children is continuing its summer-long presence at festivals around the UK by joining everyone at Leamington Peace Festival on Saturday and Sunday 14 - 15 June.
- Thursday 12 June 2008 Save the Children responds in Ethiopia
- Poor rains and rising food prices have combined to create conditions of acute food insecurity and malnutrition for thousands of children and vulnerable families in Ethiopia.
- Wednesday 11 June 2008 China one month on: Children in quake zone need ongoing help to recover
- The three million children affected by the Sichuan earthquake one month ago will need support for years to come to recover from the aftermath of the disaster.
- Tuesday 10 June 2008 100,000 more UK children now living in poverty
- Save the Children's response to Household Below Average Income statistics
- Monday 9 June 2008 Save the Children's response to suspension of aid in Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwe is facing a major humanitarian crisis, and the suspension of aid will have appalling consequences for the country's poorest and most vulnerable children
- Friday 6 June 2008 Half a million Indonesian "orphans" institutionalised without proper care
- Indonesia has between 5 and 8,000 children's homes housing up to half a million children - making it one of the largest numbers of children in residential care in the world. Over 99% of these institutions are privately run.
- Thursday 5 June 2008 Burma one month on: Aid getting through but thousands of children need help to rebuild their lives
- As families affected by Cyclone Nargis continue their struggle to recover from the disaster, Save the Children, one of the biggest aid agencies operating in Myanmar (Burma), is focusing its attention on getting children back to school.
- Tuesday 3 June 2008 Are you going to Strawberry Fair? Come to Cambridge's free summer festival and help save lives
- Festival season is here and Save the Children will be kicking off a summer-long presence at festivals around the UK by joining everyone at Strawberry Fair on Saturday 7 June in Cambridge.
