Children

Grace Akallo comes back from the last place on earth

UNICEF published an awful, true story. The story of Grace Akallo who was abducted by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army and forced to fight – to live.  She talks about her captivity and how education became her hope, her salvation – and her impetus to fight for peace. From the...

Help Children Mending Hearts Shop for Class Supplies

On April, we posted about Children Mending Hearts and asked you to vote for them on GOOD Maker. A couple of months have passed and CMH will be reaching over 1,500 students in the next six months with over twenty classes at various locations in the Los Angeles area and exchange partners...

Malala Day: Teens ready to report on historic education summit

Tomorrow, on Friday 12 July 2013, Malala Yousafzai will celebrate her 16th birthday by delivering a keynote speech to the United Nations advocating global education. The teenage was brutally shot in the head in November 2012 by the Taliban in Pakistan, for being a schoolgirl and asking...

Half The Sky Movement: The Game: Race to One Million!

We already dedicated several news to Half the Sky, in February and then in March. We think Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are doing an amazing, inspiring job. They take a break from filming in Cartagena, Colombia, to encourage you and your friends to join the Half the Sky Movement and...

Myanmar bans Time magazine, CMH Global Arts After School, War Deaths in Syria, Grim Anniversary in Sudan

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed: Myanmar bans Time magazine for story about monk; CMH Global Arts After School summer programming; War Deaths in Syria Said to Top 100,000; A Grim Anniversary in Sudan. - Myanmar bans Time magazine for story about monk -...

Zahra’s paradise, Water, children work as domestic servants, DNA, China in Africa

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed: Zahra's paradise: the Iranian woman running for president, Water: the Connecting Link to Climate Change Adaptation, Ten million children work as domestic servants, DNA code sheds light on world-ranging alga and Alexis Okeowo...

Illegal logging in Congo, Kimberley Process, IMF, Child and Forced Marriage

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed: Illegal logging 'ravaging DR Congo forests', CPJ rejects Egyptian ruling against civil society, Kimberley Process Loophole Raises Concern, IMF admits: we failed to realise the damage austerity would do to Greece, Child and...

Support the Enough Food For Everyone IF campaign!

‘The world produces enough food for everyone, but more than three million children die every year because they can’t get enough to eat. The food system is broken. In 2013, we need our leaders to do four important things to fix it. IF they take these steps, it will change the...

Enough Food For Everyone IF: All around the world, people are struggling to feed their families

Nearly one billion people go to bed hungry every night and three million children die from malnutrition every year. Progress has been made in other areas, but hunger is still the great scandal of our age. All around the world, even in the UK, people are struggling to feed their families....

DR Congo toughest place for mothers, Dhaka, Rios Montt, TEDxKhartoum

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: DR Congo toughest place for mothers, Dhaka, Bangladesh's worst industrial accident; Former leader of Guatemala, Rios Montt convicted of genocide; Sudan shuts TEDx community forum. - DR Congo toughest...