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Oxfam Takes Measures To Improve Safeguarding September 7, 2018

Oxfam has hired and trained 119 staff members who will investigate incidents related to the agencies safeguarding efforts around the world as it steps up efforts to improve. Oxfam unveiled a ten-point action plan towards the early part of the year and has increased funding for safeguarding by more than threefold to close to £2 […]

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Save The Children Calls On Donors To Fund Child Welfare In Post Conflict Iraq August 28, 2018

Last month was the one-year anniversary of ISIS being expelled from Mosul. Whilst that is reason to cheer, the children of Mosul continue to live in constant fear for their lives having been scarred by memories of devastation, extreme violence, displacement and continuous bombing according to a recently released report from Save the Children. Hundreds […]

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Help Unicef Raise Money By Mining Crypto August 21, 2018

Unicef has started to raise money in a similar fashion to the way SETI@Home searches for extra-terrestrial intelligence. The children’s aid agency of the United Nations is trying to use cryptocurrency mining to raise much needed funding. Unicef, in a bid to raise funding for children who live in conflict ridden Syria is asking gamers, […]

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Guide Dogs Urges General Public To Put Their Dogs On A Leash August 14, 2018

Guide Dogs is calling on all dog owners to lend their support in the wake of data which shows that on average there are 12 attacks on guide dogs every month which is very alarming. In nearly 60 per of those attacks, the dog which attacked was not on a leash. Besides inflicting emotional and […]

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Oxfam Report Says UK Supermarket Chains Need To Do More To Protect Small Suppliers August 7, 2018

A new report which examines the global supply chains of multinational supermarkets authored by Oxfam has found that millions of people who produce food for the retailers are trapped in a cycle of poverty, with many starving and having to face brutal working conditions. The report claims that all the major high street supermarket chains […]

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Save The Children Says More Than Half The World’s Children Face Threats July 28, 2018

A new report by Save the Children suggests that more than half the world’s children (over 1.2 billion) face the threats of conflict, poverty or discrimination against girls. The report examines the three factors that rob children of their childhoods all over the world. The report ranks 175 countries based on childhood being threatened as […]

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Unicef Says Forced Separation Of Migrant Families Heart-breaking July 21, 2018

Unicef executive director Henrietta Fore says children should not be separated from their migrant parents, referring to the controversial practice by the US government on its border with Mexico. Following a domestic and global outcry President Trump signed an executive order halting forced separation but refused to be cowed by the criticism. Ms Fore says […]

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Concern Worldwide Seeks Donations For Bangladesh Monsoon Appeal July 14, 2018

Concern Worldwide has embarked on a Bangladesh Monsoon Appeal in order to raise funding to deal with the extreme funding and landslides that threaten thousands of refugees from Myanmar living in Bangladesh. There are almost a million Rohingya refugees in the country many of whom are children living in cramped shelters on perilous silty land […]

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Oxfam Begins Its Response To Ebola Outbreak In Democratic Republic Of Congo July 7, 2018

Oxfam has embarked on its emergency response to the Ebola outbreak in the Equateur province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The aid agency has begun to distribute desperately needed food to the thousands of individuals in the middle of the crisis. Oxfam is making food items available to roughly 4,500 people. The aid […]

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Save The Children Launches Major Campaign To Fight Against Pneumonia June 28, 2018

Save the Children has published a major report as it embarks on a global war against pneumonia which seeks to save millions of lives over the next half decade. The report, titled “Fighting for Breath” terms pneumonia as ‘the forgotten child killer’ and claims that the disease is responsible for more deaths of children aged […]

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