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Educate A Child

6 months of night school

Barefoot College

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LIBERIA: Go to school or go to jail

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: IRIN Seven-year-old Assatou has been selling grilled plantains at a busy junction on the outskirts of the Liberian capital, Monrovia, for two years. "My family can't afford to send me to school," she says with a sigh. "So I learned how to cook plantain instead."...

3 comments | Sep 21, 2007    


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Control Asthma

Education for kids

Asthma & Allergy Fndn

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NIH: Create Action Plans to Control Kids' Asthma

by (author unknown), NPR Topics: Children's Health

Asthma accounts for two million emergency room visits a year, with September being the peak month for attacks that send children to hospital emergency rooms. The National Institutes of Health is encouraging doctors to create asthma action plans with young patients....

add a comment | Sep 06, 2007    


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Vaccinate A Child

Full immunization

Plan USA

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INTERVIEW-New vaccines spur progress in global polio fight

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: Reuters By Laura MacInnis GENEVA, Aug 27 (Reuters) - New vaccines have sharply reduced the number of children paralysed by polio and raised hopes that a $5 billion campaign to wipe it out may be close to ...

add a comment | Aug 27, 2007    


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Build A Community

Grassroots development

CHF International

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UNHCR hails decision to let Iraqi children attend school in Jordan

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees The UN refugee agency has welcomed and praised the Jordanian government's decision to allow tens of thousands of Iraqi children to enrol in local schools. Some 50,000 children are expected to register for schools by September 15....

add a comment | Aug 20, 2007    


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Educate A Child

One month after-school

Mercy Housing

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Cloud

by wits, A Poem A Day

I wish I could take a fluffy cloud home and feel the softness. I wish I could take a cloud home and bounce on it like a trampoline. I wish I could go home, lie on my bed, and use a white fluffy cloud as a pillow. I wish I could...

add a comment | Aug 20, 2007    

   


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Anatoly I. Pristavkin, 76, Russian Writer, Is Dead

by By DOUGLAS MARTIN, NYT > Children and Youth

Mr. Pristavkin’s experience as a Russian orphan during World War II showed in the suffering of the children in his novels and in the toughness of his opposition to the Soviet authorities....

add a comment | Jul 20, 2008    


Killer Children

by By KATHRYN HARRISON, NYT > Children and Youth

In Natsuo Kirino’s novel, a juvenile killer on the run in Tokyo murders without conscience and only in retrospect attempts to invent a philosophy to explain his crime....

add a comment | Jul 20, 2008    


I’m Y.A., and I’m O.K.

by By MARGO RABB, NYT > Children and Youth

When is a novel for adults really a novel for children? When a publisher and its marketing department decide it is....

add a comment | Jul 20, 2008    


Sandlot Game Needs Players

by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, NYT > Children and Youth

A slice of American life enjoyed for decades by youngsters from coast to coast, appears on the verge of extinction....

add a comment | Jul 20, 2008    


Pool Waters Run Deep

by By POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR, NYT > Children and Youth

In the deep end of the pool, thoughts could get lost just as fast as lurking menaces could drag one down....

add a comment | Jul 20, 2008    


Child Anxiety That Goes Beyond the Norm

by By MICHAEL WINERIP, NYT > Children and Youth

Every child experiences anxiety, and usually a caring parent can help make it pass. But in a few cases, the child can benefit from professional help....

add a comment | Jul 20, 2008    


China arrests quake critic on secrets charge

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: Reuters (Adds confirmation and comment from wife of dissident arrested) By Chris Buckley BEIJING, July 19 (Reuters) - Chinese police arrested a human rights campaigner in the country's southwest for &quot ...

add a comment | Jul 19, 2008    


Help for Victimized Children

by (author unknown), NYT > Children and Youth

States need to stop reflexively charging children as young as 13 with prostitution and begin seeing them as the victims that they clearly are....

add a comment | Jul 19, 2008    


Pope Warns on Environment

by By TIM JOHNSTON, NYT > Children and Youth

Pope Benedict XVI said that the world was being scarred and its natural resources used up by humanity’s “insatiable consumption.”...

add a comment | Jul 18, 2008    


For Children Caught in a Tug of War, an Anchor

by By ROBIN FINN, NYT > Children and Youth

Theresa A. Mari is a childless children’s advocate, the law guardian who tried to close the courtroom at the Christie Brinkley v. Peter Cook divorce trial to spare their children the details....

add a comment | Jul 18, 2008