A Mother’s Story: Emily and Nabiritha
Seven years is a long time to wait. But in Kenya, for every one person who receives cataract surgery, there are 10 others who cannot. ... Read more >
How TLYCS's Recommended Charities Help Children Thrive
For Universal Children's Day, take action by reading about and supporting charities that are proven to save lives for pennies per child. Let's give children who had the misfortune to be born into lives of poverty what we want for all of our kids: a chance to survive and thrive. According to the World Health Organization, “In 2018 an estimated 6.2 million children and adolescents under the age of 15 years died, mostly from preventable causes. Of these deaths, 5.3 million occurred in the first 5... Read more >
After Earthquake, New Babies Give Rise to Hope
Fall in Nepal is full of lights, with some of the most vibrant displays of color, in celebration of Dasain and Tihar. In villages, rice, flour, sand, and flowers are used to make “rangoli”, decorated patterns on the floor of homes that are intended to welcome various Hindu gods and goddesses. Celebrations are important for a country that is still recovering from natural disasters and a 10-year civil conflict that left many government health posts and primary care facilities in disarray. Co... Read more >
In Bangladesh, biggest-ever waste treatment plant in a refugee camp is ‘step forward’ for safer human waste disposal in emergencies
Previously posted on Oxfam.org, February 2019 Oxfam has just opened the largest human waste treatment plant ever built in a refugee camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The industrial-scale plant, funded by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), can process the waste of 150,000 people. Being able to treat large volumes of fecal waste on site, rather than having to transport it elsewhere, is a big step forward in how to safely and sustainably dispose of such waste in emergencies. Last year, more than 2... Read more >