Save The Children
Save the Children Providing Safe Transport to Pregnant Women Stranded by Pakistan Floods
Fri, 08/06/2010 - 17:00Save the Children's emergency health teams have been carrying pregnant women, stranded by the raging flood waters in Pakistan, to the nearest health clinics, so they can deliver their babies safely. To date, seven women in Batagram have been carried on wooden beds by workers on a two-hour journey through waist-high water so they can reach Save the Children's health clinics in the Allai valley.
CharityCall and Save the Children Announce Mobile Initiative
Fri, 08/06/2010 - 17:00It has been more than six months following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, which killed more than 250,000 people. Today, CharityCall, the provider of next generation mobile giving technology, and Save the Children, the leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of children, announced the HelpHaiti.mobi initiative. This timely campaign, long after the cameras have moved on, will re-engage donors in this continuing crisis and fund humanitarian aid and relief for the 1.5 million displaced Haitians struggling to regain normalcy in their lives.
Save the Children Increases Efforts to Reach Families Stranded in Pakistan
Tue, 08/03/2010 - 14:00Save the Children deployed its rapid response team to the worst-affected and hardest to reach communities in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where record-breaking monsoon rains have triggered deadly floods and mudslides. The team had to navigate the rushing waters using rafts linked to ropes and pulleys in order to distribute temporary shelters and supplies to stranded children and their families.
