SOS News Archive
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Our Charity News archive page is ordered by when events took place, dating from today back to February 2004. The page includes accounts of our follow up work in tsunami-affected countries, our other emergency programmes, such as in Pakistan and the Middle East, as well as all the recent news from our work around the world and fundraising efforts here in the UK.
Recent News
Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children: Charity gets much needed boost
Sep 02, 2010 01:25 AM
Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children: Charity gets much needed boost
Looking after volcano evacuees in Indonesia
Sep 01, 2010 05:40 PM
Indonesia has over 400 volcanoes, nearly half of which are listed as ‘active’ or ‘dangerous’. Mount Sinabung, in the Karo region of North Sumatra, had been dormant for four centries, but erupted on Sunday, sending a plum of smoke and ash up to 2 km into the air. Nearly 30,000 people from villages in a 6km radius around Mount Sinabung have been evacuated by the Indonesian authorities and sent to camps and government shelters.
Damage to infrastructure hinders aid efforts in Pakistan
Sep 01, 2010 04:35 PM
While floods still cover vast areas of the southern Sindh province, the waters have receded in the provinces of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and Punjab, leaving a trail of destruction. At a time when access to medical attention is a matter of life and death, with over 70,000 cases of acute watery diarrhoea already reported, the World Health Organisation estimates one fifth of Pakistan’s health facilities have been damaged.
Child Sponsorship Report 2010, from Santo, Haiti
Sep 01, 2010 03:35 PM
A child sponsorship report from Santo, Haiti, which was near the epicentre of the earthquake. From 2010.
Gangs freely move women, and girls across west Africa
Sep 01, 2010 01:52 PM
Gang networks that traffic Nigerian women and girls to the Ivory Coast and force them into prostitution, should be investigated and shut down, urge campaigners.
Child soldiers sent home in southern Sudan
Sep 01, 2010 01:40 PM
The Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) has promised to demobilise all its child soldiers by the year end.
Sudan floods leave 60,000 homeless
Sep 01, 2010 01:35 PM
About 60,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in south Sudan over the past month, health officials said yesterday (Tuesday) warning that many more are at risk of malaria and other diseases.
Child Sponsorship Report 2010, from Cap-Haïtien, Haiti
Sep 01, 2010 12:15 PM
A child sponsorship from Cap-Haïtien, affected by the earthquake in Haiti. From 2010.
Dozens of children poisoned in Nigeria
Sep 01, 2010 09:44 AM
Lead poisoning has killed about 30 children in northern Nigeria over the past week, authorities said.
Child Sponsorship Report 2010, from Bakoteh, Gambia
Sep 01, 2010 09:25 AM
A child sponsorship report from Bakoteh in the Gambia. From 2010.
The young shanty dwellers of Columbia
Aug 31, 2010 05:05 PM
During the last 30 years in Columbia, between 4 to 6 million people have been displaced from rural villages by the violence of armed groups. Though the paramilitaries have ended their political struggle, many groups still roam the rural areas, forcing villagers from their homes and using the land for criminal activities and drug-smuggling.
The Global Conspiracy Project is launched to raise funds for SOS Children
Aug 31, 2010 01:35 PM
The Global Conspiracy Project is launched to raise funds for SOS Children
Clean water for one million people in Africa
Aug 31, 2010 12:36 PM
Shoppers in British supermarkets are providing fresh, clean drinking water for one million people in Africa.
I am Slave: TV drama highlights Britain’s slave trade
Aug 31, 2010 10:29 AM
Modern day slavery was highlighted in a powerful new drama following the plight of a young girl kidnapped in the Sudan, transported to London and kept as a slave.
Floods swallow more of Pakistan
Aug 29, 2010 11:08 AM
The surge of flood waters along the Indus River continues to swallow up more and more land in Pakistan.
Peacekeepers struggle to explain mass rapes 19 miles from Congo base
Aug 27, 2010 11:20 AM
The United Nations Security Council yesterday spoke out against the mass rape of nearly 200 women by rebels in eastern Congo while the organisation's top officials struggled to explain how its peacekeepers failed to prevent the attacks.
Charity calls for ban on aggressive fundraising
Aug 27, 2010 10:40 AM
Editorial about chuggers by Meryl Davies, Director of Fundraising
Nigeria battles cholera outbreak
Aug 27, 2010 09:28 AM
Nigeria is on a nationwide alert after at least 352 people died during the last three months in a cholera outbreak.
SOS eNews: September 2010
Aug 26, 2010 04:35 PM
A summary of news from SOS Children from the last month and the weeks ahead.
Ongoing assistance in Somalia
Aug 26, 2010 11:37 AM
During 2009, a lengthy drought in Somalia devastated crops and left many livestock dead. As a result, 7.5 million Somalis needed aid.
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