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Personal stories

Read the stories of the children we work with and our staff around the world.


 

Helping children in Niger

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Frances Seth visited our feeding centers in Zinder, southern Niger. Read about her visit.

Sierra Leone: Adia's story

Mohammed, 3, and Adia, in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, one in four children won't make it to their fifth birthday. Read Adia's story.

Personal stories -

Monday 30 June 2008 Ethiopia food crisis: Degu's story
Degu is 5 but looks more like a 2-year-old. His father brought him to our health centre in Danama because Degu was very ill, suffering from acute malnutrition.
Wednesday 21 May 2008 Fiona Bukirwa writes about her time as a Child Protection trainee
Fiona Bukirwa won a place on last year's Child Protection Trainee Scheme, which took her to Uganda and Sri Lanka. Here she talks about her experiences.
Tuesday 20 May 2008 Pu Ben's story
Three-year-old Pu Ben was sleeping at Jiu Long Township Kindergarten when an earthquake hit Sichuan on 12 May 2008. She survived because her teacher wrapped her in a quilt and threw her from the window on the second floor.
Tuesday 20 May 2008 Jiang Xiantao's story
Jiang Xiantao, 11, was at school when an earthquake struck Sichuan Province on 12 May 2008.
Thursday 8 May 2008 After the storm
Aki, Director of Programme Support and Communications in Myanmar (Burma), writes about the worsening situation in the country since cyclone Nargis struck
Thursday 8 May 2008 Children's stories from Myanmar (Burma)
Cyclone Nargis hit the southern delta region of Myanmar on 2 May, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Almost half a million children are without basic shelter, supplies and clean water. Their situation is desperate.
Wednesday 26 March 2008 Election violence in Kenya - Lillian's story
Rift Valley, Kenya - Lillian is Kukuyu. She is engaged to her childhood sweetheart, Abraham, who is from the Kalenjin ethnic group. But at the moment, Lillian can't be with her fiancé because of ethnic tensions.
Monday 10 March 2008 Surviving the blockade on Gaza
The situation for 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is worse now than it has ever been since the start of the Israeli military occupation in 1967.
Monday 25 February 2008 Colombia: getting all children an education
Children born with disabilities are often excluded from school because teachers don't feel able to teach them
Thursday 7 February 2008 Children bear the brunt of violence in Kenya
The rain clouds darken over the surrounding hills and Nakuru show ground. The oval enclosure, normally used for showcasing the produce of the fertile Rift Valley province, is now housing approximately 6,800 children and adults.
Monday 4 February 2008 BANGING THE DRUMS!
Former nurse Frances Seth has been volunteering with Save the Children for 20 years. She tells Joanne Offer about her recent visit to Niger.
Monday 4 February 2008 INDIA: working on the front line
Despite its booming economy, India is the country with the highest number of children dying every year: Lack of education and discrimination against women mean many pregnant women in rural areas don't know how to keep themselves or their babies healthy.
Monday 4 February 2008 SIERRA LEONE: the toughest place in the world to be born
Although fewer children live in Sierra Leone than the heavily populated India, the actual rate of child deaths is much higher. In Sierra Leone, one in four children won't make it to their fifth birthday.
Friday 1 February 2008 Thirteen and homeless in Nairobi
Nairobi, Kenya - Maria Kahuka was living with her family in Janhuri Park, a stadium in the capital city of Kenya. The stadium was closed on 23 January. She describes her fears for moving from the camp and her hopes of returning to school in the future.
Monday 28 January 2008 Chris McIvor writes from Mozambique
Chris McIvor, Country Director for Save the Children UK in Mozambique, writes about our response to the flooding in the country.
Wednesday 23 January 2008 Gaza diary : Rana Elhindi
Our worker in Gaza, Rana Elhindi, discusses the impact of Israel's blockade on the occupied Palestinian territory on children and their families.
Friday 18 January 2008 Davina McCall travels to Dhaka, Bangladesh
TV presenter Davina McCall and our Vice-President Gordon Campbell Gray came face to face with the grim realities of child labour when they met children working in a basement factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Tuesday 15 January 2008 Dreams put on hold
Nakuru, Kenya - Mercy Njeri's smile lights up the gloomy stadium in Nakuru showground. She's 13 years old and now lives in the showground with thousands of others.
Tuesday 15 January 2008 Eye witness account from camp for internally displaced people in Nakuru, Kenya
Jon Bugge, Save the Children's emergency communications and media officer, writes from Kenya.
Monday 17 December 2007 A tough life for mothers and babies in India
A mother tells how Save the Children is helping to save children's lives in rural India, where many women have never had the chance to learn about basic healthcare.
Monday 10 December 2007 Fighting someone else's war
Despite the fact that international law forbids the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict, adults still use children to fight their wars. Around 300,000 children under the age of 15 are associated with armed groups around the world.
Thursday 6 December 2007 Helping mothers and babies in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is one of the toughest places to be born: one in four children born there will die before their fifth birthday.
Wednesday 5 December 2007 Paying with their lives
The number of children dying before they reach their fifth birthday is rising in many of the poorest countries in the world. Nearly 11 million children die each year because they don't have access to medical care. We think that's disgusting.
Monday 3 December 2007 After the cyclone - Shahana's story from Bangladesh
Shahana's school was destroyed by the cyclone in southern Bangladesh. She was meant to be sitting her exams this week, but now the school is destroyed, the teachers have left, all student records have been lost.
Tuesday 27 November 2007 Coping with the Storm: A mother and her four children struggle to survive Cyclone Sidr
Meet Salma, a mother with four small children, who evacuated her home as Cyclone Sidr, and its accompanying storm surge, struck their small village of Senerhat in eastern Bangladesh, near the Bay of Bengal.
Thursday 22 November 2007 Nazma's story from the Bangladesh emergency
Nazma, 12, lives with her parents, two sisters and brother in Patharghatha, a village near the Bangladeshi coast of the Bay of Bengal. She and her family rode out Cyclone Sidr in a shelter.
Monday 29 October 2007 Children's education in Liberia
Josie Cohen, campaigner for Rewrite the Future, writes about her recent trip to Liberia.
Tuesday 9 October 2007 Back to School in Palestine?
As thousands of children all over the UK are settling back into their regular school routine, children in the Gaza Strip continue to be denied access to a safe and secure school environment.
Tuesday 7 August 2007 Teddy's story
Teddy, 14, is studying in class 7 at Bundikakemba primary school in western Uganda.
Thursday 28 June 2007 Halima's story
Halima, a head teacher at a government school in Afghanistan, says fighting in her country has devastated the education system.
Tuesday 26 June 2007 Amina's story
Learn about the Internally Displaced Person site near Koukou in eastern Chad. Read Amina's story.
Sunday 27 May 2007 Educating children from minority ethnic communities in Yunnan, China
Hongjiao, 12, lives in Shuangjiang County in Yunnan, one of China's poorest provinces.
Friday 25 May 2007 Libby Rees, 11, interviews our Chief Executive
Jasmine Whitbread, Chief Executive, talks about her ambitions for Save the Children.
Wednesday 23 May 2007 Craig's Story
Teenager Craig lives in Gilfach Goch, a former mining village in the Rhondda Valley and one of the 100 most deprived communities in Wales.
Monday 21 May 2007 Fareima's Story
14-year-old Fareima lives in Afghanistan, where 60% of girls aged 7-13 are not in school. Those who do manage to attend government schools have to put up with over-crowding and a dire lack of equipment.
Monday 12 February 2007 Disease rife in wake of Jakarta floods
With disease rife in the wake of the Jakarta flooding, Darini was forced from her home.
Friday 17 November 2006 Trisha's Story
Trisha is 24 and lives in a two-bedroom council flat in London with her three children aged two, four and six.
Monday 3 April 2006 Hawa's Story
Hawa is 13 and lives in the south east of Sierra Leone with her aunty. Hawa's eyesight started to deteriorate a few years ago, and now she is almost blind.
Thursday 16 March 2006 Nguyen Thi Bich - manager of Save the Children's education programme in Vietnam
Nguyen Thi Bich manages Save the Children's education programme in Vietnam.
Thursday 8 December 2005 Feeding children in emergencies - Hassan Taifour's story
Hassan Taifour has worked for Save the Children for 14 years as an emergency nutritionist. Here he describes what his job involves.
Monday 1 August 2005 Fran Healy in Sudan
Travis front-man Fran Healy returned to South Sudan with Save the Children to find out if aid money is making a difference.
Wednesday 15 June 2005 Katie Melua in Sri Lanka
Singer-songwriter, Katie Melua travelled to Eastern Sri Lanka to meet children affected by conflict and the Tsunami.
Tuesday 10 May 2005 Sarah's Story
Let Sarah from Southern Sudan tell you what it's like to miss out on an education.
Thursday 24 June 2004 Sudan refugees' stories
Paul Hetherington, Media Officer with Save the Children, visited the refugee camps along the border between Sudan and Chad. The camps are home to thousands of families who have fled the fighting in Darfur. Here is an extract from his diary.