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• Added on: Mar 2nd, 2009
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: JKoppel
• Listed in: Society Activism
• Tags: fundraising charity ngo aid campaigning save the children

Recent Posts

• Blackouts, leopards and cheese on toast

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 12:44 in climate change, kenya, emergencies

  I have never eaten so much cheese on toast in my life! In the evenings after office hours we’ve been setting up our own office back at the apartments, and with Rob back in the UK for a few weeks, there is no budding Delia to take control of our mea...

• Do something for ONE child…and we’ll help millions

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 13:56 in fundraising, empowerment, simple solutions, immediacy, every one

  Last night we briefed some of our supporters about our Every One campaign. I then went home and talked to my friends about it. I was saying that we were focusing on individual children and individual cases to highlight the fact that it is not 9 mil...

• Listen to Me

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 04:26 in india, Bangladesh, UK, poverty, cambodia, colombia, campaigning, 20th anniversary, uncrc, child rights, bonded labour

  I am the events organiser for a pioneering theatre production called Listen to Me: True Stories from Marginalised children around the World. This production is a collaboration between three charities: Save the Children, EveryChild and iceandfire. It ...

• 12 year old Popot will be my lasting memory

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 07:40 in indonesia, emergencies, emergencies; cyclone ketsana; relief; children; cyclones; disasters; asia; earthquake; earthquakes; indonesia; sumatra

  Today is my last day in the “Big Brother” house here in Padang as my plane back home to Norway leaves at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning. I can’t believe that I’ve been here for three weeks already … or that I haven’t been here for three mon...

• Taking flushing toilets for granted

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 07:38 in health, indonesia, emergencies, emergencies; cyclone ketsana; cyclones; disasters; asia; earthquake; earthquakes; indonesia; sumatra

  Yesterday quite a miracle happened at our office! For the first time since I got here, it was actually possible to flush the toilet! OK, this only worked once. But it was quite amazing not having to pour water from a bucket with a special technique i...

• Giving people back their dignity in Sumatra

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 07:04 in indonesia, emergencies, emergencies; cyclone ketsana; relief; children; cyclones; disasters; asia; earthquake; earthquakes; indonesia; sumatra

  Today I’ve opened — for the first time — one of Save the Children’s cardboard boxes containing a household kit. So far we have distributed 6,656 such kits to families who have lost most of their belongings in the earthquake. In a couple of we...

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