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Recent News Stories
- Wednesday 2 July 2008 Save the Children starts a food fight with the G8
- As the G8 prepare to meet in Japan next week and food prices skyrocket, Save the Children asks UK families to join its Fight for Food as part of its biggest ever campaign to save children's lives.
- Wednesday 2 July 2008 G8 to drop Africa aid pledge as rising food prices put children's lives at risk
- World leaders are set to drop their aid promise to Africa made at Gleneagles in 2005, just as millions of children face increasing hunger caused by the rocketing cost of food, warned today.
- Tuesday 1 July 2008 Emirates Stadium to host 'chinese whispers' world record attempt for Save the Children
- Save the Children and TreeHouse, the national charity for autism education, are joining forces on 11 July in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the longest game of Chinese Whispers at Arsenal Football Club's Emirates Stadium.
- 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
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
