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Recent Posts
Blackouts, leopards and cheese on toast
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
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
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
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
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
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...

