A Child's Advocate: Save the Children website

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Save the Children website

There is an article on the Save the Children website that talks about what they are doing currently in East Africa. It’s a touching story and also an inspirational one. The woman featured in the article, Amy Richmond, is a child protection advisor with Save the Children and she recaptures for us a day in the life for her in East Africa. Basically she wakes up early and has a minimal breakfast, why eat when there are thousands starving right? “First stop is reception where dozens, sometime hundreds, of children arrive each day. As soon as they’re registered, they’re rushed into a Save the Children feeding center – many of them eating their first meal in days” (Save the Children, 2011) She goes around the camp keeping the area clean and also trying to connect lost children with their parents or someone who will care for them. She gets the opportunity to listen to their stories and to find hope in how much they want to succeed in education and in life.

These issues really make you stop and think about your own current situation and how you couldn’t even fathom really what these people are going through. Although I cannot go to East Africa or even the next state over at this time, there are many volunteer organizations that I and we can partake in. I feel that economists, neuroscientists, and politicians understand the need for such organizations as Save the Children and can see the benefits it provides the U.S. when other countries can depend on us for help. Hopefully we will always be in a state to help others.

On an ending note, there is a story that I want everyone to read. It’s so devastating that I don’t feel I can properly narrate it back. Here is the link, http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.7749871/k.F928/Pregnant_and_Alone_a_Teen_Escapes_Somalia.htm?msource=emeen30s0911. This story will bring tears to eyes, outrage to hearts, and make stomachs sick. But it is a tale from the life of a real person, someone who actually went through this. Please read it if you can.

Save the Children. (2011). Day in the Life of a Relief Worker in East Africa. Retrieved from the Save the Children website http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.7729197/k.B044/Day_in_the_Life_of_a_Relief_Worker_in_East_Africa.htm?msource=emeen30s0911

1 comment:

Caitlyn MarktOctober 2, 2011 at 4:11 PM
Save the Children is a great website isn't it? I love to read and see about the good that people around the world are doing for each other. It makes me want to make a difference locally as well as in other areas of the world. What a great story about Amy and the experiences she is having in East Africa. Thank you for sharing :)

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