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Disaster preparedness for schools in the Philippines
UNICEF correspondent Rob McBride reports on disaster preparedness programmes for schools in the Philippines.
Categories: International Childrens News
Maria De Prato - Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Maria De Prato
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA - 6 minutes ago
In his travels, he worked in an orphanage in Ecuador and a child development community school in the Amazon Basin. He loved music and taught himself to play ...
Letter raises concerns about child care facility - Ottumwa Courier
Letter raises concerns about child care facility
Ottumwa Courier, IA - 9 minutes ago
By SCOTT NILES Courier staff writer OTTUMWA — Some local parents are concerned the Child Development Center at Ottumwa Regional Health Center may close its ...
Volvo Cars gives away 10000 vehicles - Tribuna Economica
Volvo Cars gives away 10000 vehicles
Tribuna Economica, Italy - 13 minutes ago
All 10000 units of Volvo cars in toy version will be given to non-governmental organisations and child development organisations under the supervision of ...
The Secret Language of Toddlers: What Their Behaviours Mean - Cayman Net News
The Secret Language of Toddlers: What Their Behaviours Mean
Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands - 1 hour ago
... sensory and physical way,” says Lisa Nalven, MD, a developmental pediatrician at the Valley Center for Child Development, in Ridgewood, New Jersey. ...
Children distressed by parental fights ‘have higher stress levels’ - Entertainment and Showbiz!
Children distressed by parental fights ‘have higher stress levels’
Entertainment and Showbiz!, India - 2 hours ago
... to include physiological measures like cortisol levels. The study is appearing in the November/December 2008 issue of the journal Child Development. (ANI)
Teaching pre-reading, social skills works - United Press International
Teaching pre-reading, social skills works
United Press International - 2 hours ago
The study, published in the journal of Child Development, found when compared to children in the traditional Head Start program, children in the REDI ...
Broken pumps require evacuation of Child Development Center - The Advocate
Broken pumps require evacuation of Child Development Center
The Advocate, OR - 2 hours ago
Parents were informed their children were to be picked up at 3:30 pm Tuesday due to a sewage problem at Mt. Hood Community College’s Child Development ...
Proximity of sex offender to schools sounds alarm in Warwick - Providence Journal
Proximity of sex offender to schools sounds alarm in Warwick
Providence Journal, RI - 2 hours ago
... Winman Junior High School and the former Drum Rock Elementary School, which now serves as an early child development center run by the School Department ...
Boys are behind girls in every area - before they even start at school - Mail on Sunday
Boys are behind girls in every area - before they even start at school
Mail on Sunday, UK - 2 hours ago
... as being 'too academic' for young children. Sue Palmer, a child development expert, said: 'Boys are a little behind from the moment they are born.
KU Student-Athletes Read To Preschoolers - WIBW
KU Student-Athletes Read To Preschoolers
WIBW, KS - 3 hours ago
The group included 11 student-athletes from five different teams reading to the students at Hilltop Child Development Center on the KU campus. ...
Day Care Center At KAFB Could Close - KOAT
Day Care Center At KAFB Could Close
KOAT - 4 hours ago
Zach Bense's son, Nate, has been going to the Shandiin Child Development Center on Kirtland Air Force Base for two years. A few weeks ago, employees of the ...
Malawi: Support for malnourished children begins at home
CHIWAMBA, Malawi, 21 October 2008 – Anna Jumbe did not understand why her 14-month-old baby was always sick. Disillusioned with treatments she had administered, none of which worked, she decided to walk 10 km to Chiwamba Health Centre, where her baby Brenda was diagnosed with acute malnutrition and admitted into the Nutrition Rehabilitation Programme.
Categories: International Childrens News
Togo: Providing free anti-malarial treatment to pregnant women
GOUMOU-KOPE, Togo, 21 October 2008 – Akouvi, a mother of two, has just walked three kilometres to a health centre in this village near Aného, in the Maritime region of Togo. Four months pregnant, she has come to the clinic for her first pre-natal check-up. She is no stranger to tragedy.
Categories: International Childrens News
Lesotho: Mothers living with HIV tell their stories
MASERU, Lesotho, 21 October 2008 – In this small kingdom in Southern Africa – which has the third-highest HIV prevalence rate in the world, at 23 per cent – one in three pregnant women in antenatal care is living with the virus. At any given time, thousands of babies are at risk of contracting HIV as it passes from mother to child during pregnancy or birth.
Categories: International Childrens News
China: Lang Lang launches foundation to support children's love of music
NEW YORK, USA, 20 October 2008 – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and classical pianist Lang Lang is expanding his commitment to children's rights by creating an international foundation to encourage children's love of music.
Categories: International Childrens News
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Volunteer parents help fight HIV/AIDS
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, 20 October 2008 – Bella, a native of DR Congo, returned to this country from Uganda three years ago. After almost a year of sickness, she decided to go to one of the HIV-testing centres in Kinshasa.
Categories: International Childrens News
Angola: Global Handwashing Day celebrated in 700 schools
LUANDA, Angola, 17 October 2008 – On the first-ever Global Handwashing Day, 15 October, students and teachers from more than 700 participating schools across Angola engaged in symbolic acts of handwashing and listened to government leaders speak out about the importance of using water and soap.
Categories: International Childrens News
India: Star cricketer Sachin Tendulkar promotes handwashing
CHAANDIGARH, India, 16 October 2008 – Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and his teammates joined an estimated 100 million school children around the country yesterday in lathering up for better health and hygiene as part of the first Global Handwashing Day.
Categories: International Childrens News
Help for disabled children affected by conflict in and around South Ossetia, Georgia
GENEVA, Switzerland, 17 October 2008– For a moment during the recent war in and around South Ossetia, Georgia, the front line nearly passed through the Senaki Institute, a residential school for 105 mentally and physically disabled children abandoned by their parents. In the opening days of the conflict, a bomb flattened an adjacent building.
Categories: International Childrens News
