June 2010
Tropical storm kills 106 in Central America
Jun 01, 2010 07:58 AM
As many as 106 people died after a tropical storm battered Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Guatemala was hit hardest, with at least 83 deaths, nearly 112,000 people were evacuated and more than 29,000 are now living in temporary shelters, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom said.
Growing water crisis threatens families in Nepal
Jun 02, 2010 08:19 AM
Children and families are at risk as a shortage of safe drinking water grips Nepal.
Central America storm causes damage to SOS Children's Villages
Jun 02, 2010 12:43 PM
SOS Villages in Central America suffer storm damage
Women transform post-genocide Rwanda
Jun 03, 2010 08:12 AM
Life is fast improving for women in Rwanda who now take up more than half the nation’s parliament. With 56 per cent of women MPs, officials say Rwanda's parliament has a higher percentage of women than any other parliament in the world.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Thanh Hoa, Vietnam
Jun 03, 2010 08:45 AM
A child sponsorship report from Thanh Hoa in Vietnam. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Esperanza, Peru
Jun 03, 2010 09:10 AM
A child sponsorship report from Esperanza in Peru. Written in 2009.
Watchdog to keep check on aid spending
Jun 04, 2010 08:20 AM
An independent watchdog will be set up to keep tabs on how the UK spends aid money and to make sure it is well spent.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Cebu, Philippines
Jun 04, 2010 09:20 AM
A child sponsorship report from Cebu in the Philippines. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Bogra, Bangladesh
Jun 04, 2010 09:35 AM
A child sponsorship report from Bogra in Bangladesh. Written in 2009.
Excluded children: The situation of orphans and abandoned children worldwide
Jun 04, 2010 01:12 PM
he situation of orphans and children without parental care in a cross-section of countries. Orphans and children without parental care need a very specific form of protection and care. In spite of this, they are all but doomed to have their special needs ignored and their rights abused in many cases.
Aids ravaged Lesotho begs South Africa to take over their country
Jun 07, 2010 07:53 AM
Aids ravaged Lesotho begs South Africa to take over their country. Their country bankrupt by the Aids pandemic, thousands of people in Lesotho have asked South Africa to virtually take over the commonwealth kingdom. Hundreds of people marched through the capital Maseru and handed a petition to parliament and the South African High Commission asking that their country be integrated into its giant neighbour, which completely surrounds it.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Jun 07, 2010 10:00 AM
A child sponsorship report from Phnom Penh in Cambodia. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Oruro, Bolivia
Jun 07, 2010 10:35 AM
A child sponsorship report from Oruro in Bolivia. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Huancayo, Peru
Jun 07, 2010 11:15 AM
A child sponsorship report from Huancayo in Peru. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Bambous, Mauritius
Jun 07, 2010 03:25 PM
A child sponsorship report from Bambous in Mauritius. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Bhubaneshwar, India
Jun 08, 2010 09:06 AM
A child sponsorship report from Bhubaneshwar in India. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Medan, Indonesia
Jun 08, 2010 10:50 AM
A child sponsorship report from Medan in Indonesia. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Tacloban, Philippines
Jun 08, 2010 11:25 AM
A child sponsorship report from Tacloban in the Philippines. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Managua, Nicaragua
Jun 08, 2010 12:45 PM
A child sponsorship report from Managua in Nicaragua. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Ibarra, Ecuador
Jun 08, 2010 12:50 PM
Child sponsorship report from Ibarra in Ecuador. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Francistown, Botswana
Jun 08, 2010 01:25 PM
A child sponsorship report from Francistown in Botswana. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Jun 09, 2010 08:00 AM
A child sponsorship report from Santa Cruz in Bolivia. Written in 2009.
Child soldiers re-educated in Sri Lanka
Jun 09, 2010 08:50 AM
A year after Sri Lankan government soldiers defeated the Tamil Tigers, the former child soldiers who fought for the rebels are being rehabilitated.
Starving children can’t get to Niger’s feeding centres
Jun 09, 2010 08:58 AM
Badly malnourished children are having their treatment cut short because feeding centres are too hard to get to, say aid workers.
Hard road to South Africa for fans for Zimbabwe's refugees
Jun 09, 2010 09:14 AM
Hundreds of young Zimbabweans trying to flee their country’s tough regime arrive in South Africa every day as the nation prepares for thousands of football fans to descend for the World Cup.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Jammu, India
Jun 09, 2010 03:20 PM
A child sponsorship report from Jammu in India. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Chvalcov, Czech Republic
Jun 09, 2010 03:45 PM
A child sponsorship report from Chvalcov in the Czech Republic. Written in 2009.
TV Ben’s pledge to Africa’s disfigured children
Jun 10, 2010 08:25 AM
TV presenter Ben Fogle has vowed to wipe out one of the cruellest diseases after filming last night’s (Wednesday) documentary, Make Me a New Face.
Teachers and aid workers tortured in Pakistan’s lawless north west
Jun 10, 2010 08:32 AM
Teachers, aid workers and activists are routinely tortured as millions of Pakistanis fall victim to Taliban abuse, claims a report out today.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Mar Del Plata, Argentina
Jun 10, 2010 11:40 AM
A child sponsorship report from Mar Del Plata in Argentina. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Bharatpur, Nepal
Jun 10, 2010 11:45 AM
A child sponsorship report from Bharatpur in Nepal. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Kfarhay, Lebanon
Jun 10, 2010 01:55 PM
A child sponsorship report from Kfarhay in Lebanon. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Muyinga, Burundi
Jun 11, 2010 08:40 AM
A child sponsorship report from Muyinga in Burundi. Written in 2009.
Aids babies to lose drug keeping them alive
Jun 11, 2010 09:05 AM
Thousands of babies may die in the developing world when a factory making the only cheap drug that keeps them alive closes.
Children take to streets of Gaza, to call for normal lives
Jun 11, 2010 09:08 AM
The children of Gaza yesterday staged street demonstrations seeking to break the siege on the tiny Strip.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Rutana, Burundi
Jun 11, 2010 10:15 AM
A child sponsorship report from Rutana in Burundi. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Abomey-Calavi, Benin
Jun 11, 2010 03:40 PM
A child sponsorship report from Abomey-Calavi in Benin. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Gulpilhares, Portugal
Jun 12, 2010 08:45 AM
A child sponsorship report from Gulpilhares in Portugal. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Itahari, Nepal
Jun 12, 2010 09:10 AM
A child sponsorship report from Itahari in Nepal. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Pune, India
Jun 12, 2010 09:45 AM
A child sponsorship report from Pune in India. Written in 2009.
Women and children shot as thousands flee Kyrgyzstan
Jun 14, 2010 08:30 AM
Women and children were shot as they tried to escape ethnic violence that has forced tens of thousands of terrified people to flee Kyrgyzstan.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Nongkhai, Thailand
Jun 14, 2010 08:52 AM
A child sponsorship report from Nongkhai in Thailand. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from San Vicente, El Salvador
Jun 14, 2010 09:01 AM
A child sponsorship report from San Vicente in El Salvador. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Harrar, Ethiopia
Jun 14, 2010 10:10 AM
A child sponsorship report from Harrar in Ethiopia. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Kaifeng, China
Jun 14, 2010 11:26 AM
A child sponsorship report from Kaifeng in China. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Lhasa, China
Jun 14, 2010 01:40 PM
A child sponsorship report from Lhasa in China. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Chiloe Ancud, Chile
Jun 14, 2010 02:05 PM
A child sponsorship report from Chiloe Ancud in Chile. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Rajpura, India
Jun 14, 2010 02:15 PM
A child sponsorship report from Rajpura in India. Written in 2009.
Pregnant women and children need aid in Kyrgyzstan
Jun 15, 2010 08:46 AM
Pregnant women and children urgently need medical treatment and food as hundreds of thousands flee in ethnic fighting Kyrgyzstan, say aid workers.
Russia threat to halt foreign orphan adoptions
Jun 15, 2010 08:56 AM
Russia is threatening to stop adoptions of orphans overseas, unless it can agree a deal about terms with the US.
Gaza's health system at breaking point
Jun 15, 2010 08:59 AM
The health care system in Gaza is at an “all-time low” with daily power cuts and vital medicines in short supply, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from San Ignacio, Paraguay
Jun 15, 2010 01:10 PM
A child sponsorship report from San Ignacio in Paraguay. Written in 2009.
Millions miss school in Nepal
Jun 16, 2010 09:32 AM
Millions of children are not going to school in Nepal because the country isn’t working hard enough to keep them in education, warn aid workers.
Students speak out on Syria’s over-stretched schools
Jun 16, 2010 09:42 AM
Children are spearheading an overhaul of Syria’s over-stretched education system.
Woman and baby die in Indonesia quake
Jun 17, 2010 08:30 AM
A five month-old baby and a woman were among the three killed when a string of powerful earthquakes hit Indonesia.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
Jun 17, 2010 10:50 AM
A child sponsorship report 2009, from Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Callao, Peru
Jun 17, 2010 11:00 AM
A child sponsorship report from Callao in Peru. Written in 2009.
Aid arrives in Kyrgystan as Red Cross warns of ‘immense crisis’
Jun 17, 2010 11:21 AM
Foreign aid today started to trickle through to the hundreds of refugee families running short of food, water and shelter in southern Kyrgyzstan.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Tijuana, Mexico
Jun 17, 2010 12:14 PM
A child sponsorship report from Tijuana in Mexico. Written in 2009.
Zambia health aid frozen
Jun 17, 2010 02:35 PM
The Global Fund has stopped health aid payments to Zambia because of alleged government corruption.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Jorpati, Nepal
Jun 17, 2010 02:45 PM
A child sponsorship report from Jorpati in Nepal. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Cochabamba, Bolivia
Jun 17, 2010 03:17 PM
A child sponsorship report from Cochabamba in Bolivia. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Khulna, Bangladesh
Jun 17, 2010 03:37 PM
A child sponsorship report from Khulna in Bangladesh. Written in 2009.
World Cup goal for better lives in Africa
Jun 17, 2010 03:48 PM
Football is being used as a tool for social change as part Fifa’s legacy for the 2010 World Cup.
Speedboats rescue 100 children in Burma floods
Jun 18, 2010 09:30 AM
More than 100 children and 50 hospital patients were rescued by speedboat after floods devastated western Burma.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Chiclayo, Peru
Jun 18, 2010 10:30 AM
A child sponsorship report from Chiclayo in Peru. Written in 2009.
First world-standard guide on medicines for children
Jun 18, 2010 11:42 AM
For the first time medics across the world will be able to check standardised guidelines when giving medicines to children.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Tarija, Bolivia
Jun 18, 2010 12:00 PM
A child sponsorship report from Tarija in Bolivia. Written in 2009.
Uzbeks aid plea
Jun 21, 2010 07:05 AM
Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan have made a desperate plea for aid as the full extent of last weekend’s ethnic fighting begins to unfold. As many as a million people may need aid after deadly ethnic violence erupted in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations has warned. The country’s government has struggled to bring back order after clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz gangs.
Children slave over killer heels
Jun 21, 2010 07:06 AM
Designer shoes would break the bank for most people apart from the very well-off or self-confessed fans such as Sarah Jessica Parker and Victoria Beckham. The most people get though are the cheap fakes thousands of websites offer. But the truth behind the skilfully recreated counterfeits is that many designer fakes are made using child labour, in shocking conditions, under the harsh supervision criminal gangs.
Four hundred thousand children on brink of starvation in Niger
Jun 21, 2010 09:25 AM
As many as 400,000 children under five years-old risk dying of starvation because of the drought in Niger, aid organisations said today.
SOS Children battles the food crisis in Niger
Jun 21, 2010 12:29 PM
At the beginning of May 2010, SOS Children's Villages launched an emergency relief programme in Niger to help children and communities survive the effects of the developing food crisis. The programme includes immediate measures to feed children and families, as well as long-term measures for the prevention of future crises.
Call to block Zimbabwe blood diamond trade
Jun 22, 2010 08:10 AM
A human rights group has asked the world diamond industry watchdog to drop Zimbabwe because of alleged abuses in its diamond fields.
Thousands missing and homeless as deadly floods batter Brazil
Jun 22, 2010 08:11 AM
Thirty-nine people have died, more than 1,000 are missing and 400,000 are homeless after deadly floods hit Brazil. Officials fear the death toll may rise as days of heavy rain caused flooding that has punished the north eastern states of Pernambuco and Alagoas, causing rivers to burst their banks and leaving entire towns submerged.
Angelina Jolie visits SOS Children's Village in Haiti
Jun 22, 2010 08:25 AM
Long-time supporter back in Haiti to assess progress since earthquake
Bangladesh factories reopen after women worker’s pay protest
Jun 23, 2010 10:04 AM
Hundreds of clothes factories in Bangladeshi reopened today after riots by workers forced them to shut. It comes after days of violent protests calling for better pay by tens of thousands of workers who stitch clothes.
Kenya refugee camp cuts child malnutrition
Jun 23, 2010 12:08 PM
Aid workers at a refugee camp in north west Kenya have slashed child malnutrition by doubling up nutritional supplements, stepping up feeding and setting up community feeding programmes.
Ghana winning the war on hunger
Jun 23, 2010 01:34 PM
Ghana has managed to slash its number of hungry people more than any other country in a United Nations league table. Between 1990 and 2004; the west African country cut the amount of malnourished people by 75 per cent and more than halved the number of undernourished people from 34 per cent to 9 per cent in the same period.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Awassa, Ethiopia
Jun 24, 2010 02:10 PM
A child sponsorship report from Awassa in Ethiopia. Written in 2009.
Thousands of refugees go back to uncertainty in Kyrgyzstan
Jun 25, 2010 08:18 AM
Thousands of Uzbek refugees from Kyrgyzstan's ethnic fighting headed home across the border to burned-out homes on Tuesday, their future unclear before a vote on how the country will be run.Fighting between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks, which started in the city of Osh on June 10, left a reported 2,000 people dead and 400,000 of ethnic Uzbeks fled their homes, many streaming across the border into Uzbekistan.
Film highlights plight of India’s Forgotten Women
Jun 25, 2010 10:21 AM
The world’s biggest democracy is exposed in a new film, as it stands by while literally millions of its women suffer unspeakable violence and oppression. India's Forgotten Women highlights the shocking plight of millions of women oppressed in modern-day India because of their social status The film shows astonishing, never-seen-before evidence of domestic violence, dowry crime, sex selective abortion, female infanticide, bonded labour, rape, temple prostitution, and human trafficking.
More than 115 million widows living in poverty
Jun 25, 2010 12:52 PM
There are at least 245 million women around the world who have been widowed and more than 115 million of them or forced to live in devastating poverty, according to a new report.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Nelspruit, South Africa
Jun 25, 2010 01:30 PM
A child sponsorship report from Nelspruit in South Africa. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Ksarnaba, Lebanon
Jun 25, 2010 01:35 PM
A child sponsorship report from Ksarnaba in Lebanon. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Inhambane, Mozambique
Jun 25, 2010 02:35 PM
A child sponsorship report from Inhambane in Mozambique. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Antofagasta, Chile
Jun 26, 2010 10:30 AM
A child sponsorship report from Antofagasta in Chile. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Bucaramanga, Colombia
Jun 27, 2010 09:30 AM
A child sponsorship report from Bucaramanga, Colombia. Written in 2009.
PM called to step in on new UN women's agency
Jun 28, 2010 08:41 AM
Aid agencies have asked British Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene in talks to set up a new United Nations agency for women.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Bali, Indonesia
Jun 28, 2010 01:32 PM
A child sponsorship report from Bali in Indonesia. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Arequipa, Peru
Jun 28, 2010 03:10 PM
A child sponsorship report from Arequipa in Peru. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Flores, Indonesia
Jun 28, 2010 03:27 PM
A child sponsorship report from Flores in Indonesia. Written in 2009.
Arsenic-laced water kills one in five Bangladeshis
Jun 28, 2010 03:33 PM
Drinking water contaminated with arsenic has been linked to one out of every five deaths in Bangladesh where up to half of its 150 million people have guzzled poisoned water.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from San Jeronimo, Guatemala
Jun 28, 2010 03:45 PM
A child sponsorship report from San Jeronimo in Guatemala. Written in 2009.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Savannakhet, Laos
Jun 28, 2010 04:00 PM
A child sponsorship report from Savannahkhet in Laos. Written in 2009.
Romanian gipsy sent daughter to beg in Britain
Jun 29, 2010 08:12 AM
Eva Stanicou’s father, Iuri, has just come back to their Romanian home after two years in a British jail. Convicted of child trafficking, He sent his teenage daughter to England to beg on the streets. In winter, the Roma gipsy girl, 13 sat shivering on an upturned plastic bucket outside a Co-op in Farnborough, near Slough.
G8 maternal health spending fails women and girls
Jun 29, 2010 08:25 AM
A pledge to put an extra $5bn towards improving the health of women and children over the next five years is a step forward, but stops well short of the support the developing world needs, say aid groups.
Japanese royalty in Rustenburg
Jun 29, 2010 08:29 AM
Although Rustenburg is no stranger to royalty as they have their own Royal Bafokeng family, the SOS Children's Village Rustenburg were delighted to host a visit by the Japanese Princess Takamodo and the President of the Japan Football Association on 24 June.
Starving children need urgent help to prevent Niger disaster
Jun 29, 2010 09:24 AM
Niger’s food crisis is on the brink of becoming a disaster, new government figures warn. Prolonged drought and crop failure in the dry West African country means that nearly half the people in Niger do not have enough to eat and nearly 20 per cent of children under five are malnourished. And the government’s latest estimates on just how much the country is suffering are significantly higher than what was thought.
Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Tianjin, China
Jun 29, 2010 09:45 AM
A child sponsorship report from Tianjin in China. Written in 2009.
Mounting fears for children in Sudan food crisis
Jun 29, 2010 10:29 AM
Thousands of hungry families are being forced to leave their homes in Sudan and spend days walking to reach an area that is already seriously short of food. As many as 14,000 members of the Lou Nuer ethnic community have been forced out of the Upper Nile because local officials say they don't have residency rights after local boundaries were redrawn.
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