Tag: vulnerable children
Heartbreak Road
Here I sit in my hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on the last day of a three-day weekend celebrating the King’s birthday. There have been fireworks every night that children, sitting in a line on a busy street curb, gape at with wonder on their faces. The faces of Cambodians were far different yesterday, as [...]
Posted: October 31st, 2011 under Asia, NGOs, humanitarian.
Tags: Cambodia, elderly, Phnom Penh, poverty, vulnerable children
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Combatting child trafficking in Haiti
Just got this press release in my email today anf thought it was worth posting in its entirety. Even as the media spotlight on Haiti fails, let’s not forget the threats facing its children, who are multilayered vulnerable - on top of the vulnerability they had before the earthquake because of their poverty, they now [...]
Posted: April 13th, 2010 under Caribbean, Disaster aid, Natural disaster, United Nations, human rights, international children's issues.
Tags: child exploitation, child trafficking, children's rights, Haiti earthquake, UNICEF, vulnerable children
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More good info from IRIN on Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, 12 February 2010 (IRIN) - Some 300,000 people suffered physical injury during Haiti’s devastating earthquake, but as a day of national mourning was marked exactly one month later, the full extent of the hidden, psychological damage is still unclear in a country with the most rudimentary of mental health infrastructures. ”We are faced with an [...]
Posted: February 15th, 2010 under Caribbean, Disaster aid, Global health, Natural disaster, human rights, humanitarian, international children's issues.
Tags: children's health, earthquake, Haiti, mental health, psychosocial, vulnerable children
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