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“They are cheerful-looking and photogenic, but close to all have a very sad story,” said Budi Soehardi, founder of the West Timor orphanage.
“Some of the babies come because a mother passes away right after delivery because of lack of nutrition....
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Being counsellors in an NGO like SIFF, we come across so many different types of men facing harassment in the hands of either their wives, in-laws, police, judiciary or...
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All the students at Luolang Elementary School, a yellow-and-orange concrete structure off a winding mountain road in southern China, know the key rules: Do not run in...
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The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare study shows pre-teen children have sought rehabilitation for problems with amphetamines, cannabis, alcohol and even...
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Fun in Artek
Created in the Crimea of the Soviet era as a place for the best-of-the best pupils under 16 year old, a scout (pioneers’) camp Artek was a show-window...
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Lately I’ve been doing alot of thinking, pondering actually. I know where I come from, I know our history. I know about the Aztecs, Hernan Cortez, and the Spanish...
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It was a usual day for Rohan; a nine year old boy belonging to a lower middle class Indian family living in a small town in Madhya Pradesh. A boy with lots of sparkling...
made popular Oct 12 2009
One in five Somali children is wasting away from malnutrition. Tens of thousands need urgent medical care to survive. The whole middle belt of the country is teetering...
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Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into...
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Kenya is among the first countries in Africa where Swine flu was reported but the nation is now on high alert as the flu has hit once again and this time in high...
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Somali schools should stop using “un-Islamic” textbooks distributed by the United Nations, a spokesman for the Islamist group al-Shabab has said.
Sheikh...
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An Arizona couple accused of sexual abuse after taking bath-time photos of their children and then trying to have them developed at Walmart are suing the state and the...
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Luzira prison is Uganda’s major prison where all hardcore criminals enjoy their sentences. You can never expect children to share the same environment, more so,...
made popular Sep 19 2009
Reporting from Mogadishu, Somalia - Even in a country that has endured so much suffering, few images could more tragically convey the senseless violence gripping...
made popular Sep 12 2009
An Indian Insight
On the eve of the forgotten or rather not enthusiastically discussed International Literacy Day (celebrated on September 8), I thought of discussing...
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Mexico’S Health Secretary, Jose Angel Cordova, warned on Friday that at least one million people could become infected by influenza A-H1N1 during the winter...
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SHE’S had six, possibly seven children, all to different fathers. Four were sent to live with their grandmother and at least one, police believe, has been...
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In front of Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Rio de Janeiro, with a view of Christ, the Redeemer, is the site of one of the most beautiful stories of black resistance in...
made popular Aug 11 2009
A pinch, a slap, a wack with a stick or ruler,or sometimes made to stand in an uncomfortable position for long.I am sure all of us who have been through the process of...
made popular Aug 8 2009
For a few days media is full of stories how children are brutalized in the name of superstition
Whether keeping them buried in mud neck down or throwing them from 50...
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- Up to 21,000 independent child migrants from outside South Africa are living in the country, according to a discussion document by the UN Children’s Fund...
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“Please give me some food”, a desperate plea from a starving 17 year old Sarat, an inmate of Jatiya Jaradhi Sansad, an orphanage for the mentally challenged...
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Isn’t it ironical we turn our back on those in old age who brought us to this planet; bore our troubles right from our birth keenly and selflessly? If they had not...
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Children orphaned by Aids and aged between 11 and 18, living in Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, were given cameras to document their lives.
The photographs, some...
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The Wat Opot community is in rural Cambodia, tucked amid rice fields and villages, about an hour south of Phnom Penh. I am going there to join a group of children and...
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‘To defend human decency, sometimes war is necessary.’ Though, the metaphor is far-fetched but in connection with the Iraq war, it seems sarcastic. It is...
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Do you know, 2.9 million people died of AIDS in 2006! And an estimated 39.5 million people are now living with HIV worldwide?
Shockingly, AIDS kills some 6,000 people...
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Migdal Ha-emek:
Indian nanny Sandra Samuel holds Moshe Holtzberg, 2, orphan of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife Rivkah, killed in the Mumbai Jewish center attack, in the garden of his relative’s house in Migdal Ha-Emek, northern Israel, Monday, Dec. 8, 2008....
