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  The 2010 EVERY ONE Half-Marathon & 7k Races in Hawassa,
Sign up for the May 2nd EVERY ONE Race in Hawassa and help us meet our goal of raising $25,000 to support the EVERY ONE Campaign in Ethiopia The 2010 EVERY ONE Half-Marathon & 7k Races in Hawassa, also incorporating children’s races...
  Children and Violence
As Kenya counts the human and material cost of the political violence, hospitals are reporting an increase in reported rapes during the immediate post-election period, spurring the government and health organizations to find ways to treat these cases...
  Kenya: Traditional sexual coercion puts the youth at risk
Sexual peer pressure is forcing many newly circumcised young men in central Kenya to engage in sex before they are fully healed, negating the procedure's protective effects against HIV, according to the preliminary findings of an ongoing regional study....
  Sudan: The Irony of Abduction
She once hailed from the vibrant city of Bor from where some of southern Sudan ’s leaders, elites and diplomats have emerged. She was a young and innocent Dinka girl then. Now she is a woman, a mother with children with Nuer blood running in their...
Uganda: Living with the Lord's Resistance Army
Every evening, a line of young girls with yellow jerry cans on their heads and babies on their backs walks to the camp water point on the edge of the forest. They pump water under the protective eye of the young men with guns, and shy away from visitors...

Latest news

  January 2011: The International Program Director Visit to Ethiopia
“…Ethiopia has been a special country to Save the Children Sweden…” Mr. Svante Sandberg                     The International Program...
  June 23: Hans Ridemark towards a new Plan
The Regional Director Hans Ridemark has now left his post at Save the Children Sweden in Nairobi. He is satisfied with Save the Children Sweden’s development towards a more focused organization, and he will miss his colleagues, his work as well as...
  SUDAN 23 June: Child Protection through Education in Southern Sudan
Through education, Save the Children Sweden has already empowered a great number of children in Southern Sudan to seek a better future. The organization aims at reaching even more children by the end of 2012. The situation in southern Sudan is...
  UGANDA 6 April: Lucy Lakot, "I can't believe I'm finally home"
After 20 years in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Gulu, northern Uganda, Lucy Lakot is back home, determined to succeed as a farmer. The mother of four has started rearing animals and cultivating land to plant crops for a new life....
  SUDAN 6 April: "Survival package" for Southern children
The screaming child wriggles in her mother’s lap as a health worker swabs her arms in preparation for a measles injection. It is tough being a child in Southern Sudan, where routine immunisation coverage is the lowest in world, according to official...
  SUDAN 6 April: Violence scaring off returnees in Jonglei
An upsurge of violence in Southern Sudan’s Jonglei State has slowed the repatriation of displaced civilians and affected the delivery of aid, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said. Nearly 700 people have been killed in clashes between the Murle and Lou...