A personal reflection to Save the Children’s new report, “State of the World’s Mothers.”  On Sunday, May 12th, several countries in the world will celebrate Mother’s Day. It’s a day that most of us associate with flowers, cards, boxes of chocolates, or perhaps that late-in-the-evening-just-in-time-I-still-remembered-call. Many of us – and I include myself into this

Last week, ONE’s team on the ground in Bali continued to lobby the members of the High Level Panel (HLP) on our Open for Development petition and the preliminary results of the You Choose campaign from Malawi, South Africa and Zambia.

Photo credit: Save the Children As you may have learned from this year’s International Women’s Day, gender-based violence is one of the largest and most widespread issues in global public health today. Though it has only recently been considered as a health concern, it deserves global attention alongside HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB. But now that the

Paige Harrigan, Nutrition Adviser for Save the Children, gets personal about the impact of frontline health workers. Jealousy? That wasn’t an emotion I was expecting on a regular field visit to rural Bangladesh a few years ago. I was the middle-class American nutritionist in a country I’d grown to love. They were women of very

Kim Hunter, ONE’s former US press secretary, set off in January on a year-long trip to see the world and chronicle some of the hard-working people and projects that are on the front lines of fighting poverty in the developing world. In this post, Kim spent the day with Save the Children Vietnam’s Project NAM

For International Women’s Day, we asked our ONE Moms and partners to write about ordinary women and girls who have inspired them to be better activists. In this post, Mary Beth Powers from Save the Children write about Mahmuda, a community health worker in Bangladesh. For Mahmuda Ahkter, it was an ordinary day. After feeding

ONE’s partner Save the Children released a report, “A Life Free from Hunger,” last Wednesday that sheds light on the “hidden crisis” of malnutrition. The stats are staggering: Every hour, 300 children die because they don’t receive enough healthy food. And because it’s not recorded on death certificates, malnutrition goes unchecked, threatening to jeopardize many

Tomorrow, Save the Children will host a worldwide Twitter chat on malnutrition. The chat will allow users to ask questions, offer answers and get talking about this #hiddencrisis. Once you log into your Twitter account from this website, you’ll be able to tweet your comments to the guest hosts and your fellow participants. Photo credit:

Rachel Maranto of Save the Children describes an incredible event that brought supporters together to raise awareness for health workers around UN Week. How do you get a message across in the crazy buzz of the city that never sleeps? Take over Times Square, of course. Hundreds of moms and supporters came together in New

Justin Forsyth, CEO of Save the Children UK, reports on his experience at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Read the original post here. Photo credit: Colin Crowley/Save the Children Yesterday I spent the day in Dadaab refugee camp, a camp in Kenya near the Somalia border. A camp which has swelled to the size

Mary Beth Powers of Save the Children puts the spotlight on the men and women who help keep rural communities healthy in Africa. One of the best things about my role directing Save the Children’s child survival campaign is the chance to get out to the field and follow around real life health workers who

In a very remote village set on a steep hillside in Zomba district, Save the Children, under the US Feed the Future Initiative, is working with communities to improve their well-being and livelihoods through improved nutrition, sanitation and access to savings and credit. The acronym for the program is WALA, the Wellness and Agriculture for

Anti-poverty activist and v-logger Kristina Horner writes about her experience at last year’s Advocacy Day, Save the Children’s annual event that calls on Congress to take action on issues affecting children at home and abroad. Save the Children invited me to be a sort of Internet/YouTube ambassador for Advocacy Day in 2010, so I hopped