Rachel Maranto of Save the Children describes an incredible event that brought supporters together to raise awareness for health workers around UN Week.
How do you get a message across in the crazy buzz of the city that never sleeps? Take over Times Square, of course.
Hundreds of moms and supporters came together in New York’s iconic Times Square yesterday to create a giant human mosaic with one simple message: Health Workers Save Lives. The huge image certainly caught the attention of passers-by, but the image was even more impressive from the sky. Brian, an employee working in one of the overlooking skyscrapers, thought the mosaic looked so impressive he invited all the press photographers to his office!
Yesterday I spent the day in Dadaab refugee camp, a camp in Kenya near the Somalia border. A camp which has swelled to the size of Bristol –- some 370,000 people. I was both inspired and heart broken by what I saw and heard.
Mary Beth Powers of Save the Children puts the spotlight on the men and women who help keep rural communities healthy in Africa.
One of the best things about my role directing Save the Children’schild survival campaign is the chance to get out to the field and follow around real life health workers who are saving lives. Often with a sixth or maybe 10th grade education, these women and men agree to be trained to prevent disease and to treat childhood illnesses. And every day, they enjoy the satisfaction of the fact that their community is healthier, and children are enjoying a greater chance of surviving the risky first months and years of life.
In a very remote village set on a steep hillside in Zomba district, Save the Children, under the US Feed the Future Initiative, is working with communities to improve their well-being and livelihoods through improved nutrition, sanitation and access to savings and credit.
Anti-poverty activist and v-logger Kristina Horner writes about her experience at last year’s Advocacy Day, Save the Children’s annual event that calls on Congress to take action on issues affecting children at home and abroad.
Save the Children invited me to be a sort of Internet/YouTube ambassador for Advocacy Day in 2010, so I hopped a flight to DC armed with only a video camera and a whole bunch of curiosity and eagerness. I sat in on meetings, watched promo commercials, shook hands with countless people and learned more about what Save does around the world in two days than I ever could have learned by browsing their website. I was touched, immediately, by the passion and the drive I saw in so many people attending this event. I’ll admit I felt a tiny bit out of my element having done very little philanthropic work myself at that point, but I found myself fitting right in just by the incredible atmosphere and energy in the room.
Every 4 seconds, local health workers help save a child’s life. And it’s time to make sure these workers get all the support that they need. That’s why our partners at Save the Children have teamed up with the Ad Council to launch the “See Where the Good Goes” campaign. The campaign’s website is loaded with tons of great information, from powerful PSAs, profiles of local health workers from around the world and lots of ideas on how to take action right away. For a sneak peek, take a look at the video of a health worker below.
As one of the tag lines go, the idea is simple. Help one. Save many. Visit www.goodgoes.org and find out all the ways you can help get the good where it needs to go.
We’re right in the middle of World Cup fever. And Save the Children—along with ONE and many other partners—is using this moment to help make sure 72 million children around the world get the education that they deserve.
To help spread the word, 1GOAL Ambassador and musician Shakira issued a YouTube challenge last month asking people from all corners of the globe to record themselves doing the World Cup “Waka Waka – This Time for Africa” dance and show their support for universal education. Save the Children just posted their video, which highlights staff and friends dancing in the streets of Dakar, Senegal and rural Bangladesh. Take a look—and make sure to share the 1GOAL message with your family and friends.
ONE is campaigning to ensure that the Congressional budget does not cut foreign assistance programs like Feed the Future that help people break the cycle of poverty and hunger.
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