Children

The world is always looking for a crystal ball…a window into the future, and the fact that we don't have one is all too often our scapegoat for not responding quickly to a crisis. “We just didn't see it coming…We just where not prepared.”, are almost infamous words in the world of international development. The […]

It can make one wonder, who is watching the children today, when you hear stories such as this one out of the Netherlands. “Children played with a high-explosive World War Two shell at a playground in the Dutch town Barneveld for months before authorities were warned and removed it, Dutch police said Sunday. The police […]

Can one truly imagine the feeling of hunger, when they have not felt the desperation and pain that it causes a child. The prolonged agony of constant hunger drives children into desperate circumstances, and it drives many to get high in order to forget the hunger that rages in their young bellies. In Nepal extreme […]

In Africa the WHO is predicting the worst meningitis epidemic in the last decade, an epidemic which is preventable and yet once which they are substantially unprepared for. It is estimated that some 80 million people, in 21 various countries, which form a region reffed to as, the "meningitis belt', could need the preventative vaccine. […]

‘-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900,1944), French aviator, author. The Little Prince, ch. 1 (1943). Children while they are continually learning, are also the worlds greatest teachers.

I need not tell you that the situation in Sudan is grave, and that for countless children their lives hang in a fragile limbo, while the world at large looks on. Hunger, disease, and violence is taking the lives of more and more children every day. Some 4 million people have been affected by the […]

(2004 16 year old suicide bomber in Israel) "The Taleban said God himself would ignite the vest. I did not have to do anything."- Farman Ullah A recent Times article, There is no defense against these children of death, by Robert Baer. The article was run in addition to the UK Channel 4's airing of […]

For those of you who are unaware CNN is doing a special series on everyday hero's, many of which work directly with, or touch on the lives of children around the world. CNN Heroes The series will end on Thursday, December 6, 2007, with a special live global telecast, which will air at 9pm ET […]

The Irish government announced legislation on October 11 that they will now make it make it an offense to bring an adult or child into the country for sexual or labor exploitation. The new Criminal Law Human Trafficking Bill 2007, has now made Ireland compliant with EU, Council of Europe and UN human trafficking tools […]

It is true, we do owe our children the “best”, sadly this is not what we give them.  Children across the globe are abused, abandoned, hungry, dying, lost, alone, enslaved.  We can do something about it, yet so often we do not, or we simply do not do our “best”.  One cannot go through life […]

False promises…a new life, money, a job, security, food, and shelter, are all tools used to lure millions of woman and children into slavery. Millions more are violently kidnapped, or sold by various family and friends. Hidden among the dark streets, millions of children live as the prey to greed. Used as a commodity's, their […]

Across the globe millions of children are currently enslaved, held against their will and forced to work. Children who's human rights have been stripped away with little regard for their future. In a world where freedom has become a word used to defend war, a word used to incite passion, and a word to treasure…it […]