According to the report of National Center for Missing and Exploited Children there are around 4,600 missing children of which
those who were found alone at hurricane center have been united with their family members. But still there are many more who...
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Leonie J Campbell in his book The Baby Merchant has highlighted how poverty and hunger has affected the life of Third World children. Campbell has also pointed out that the children even as young as eight are dragged into the flesh trade.
She has...
In Egypt girls as young as seven get married to older men. Once married they never attend school. These young brides has to satisfy all the sexual demands of their spouse. They mostly get pregnant in the first year of their marriage. Since their body are...
Thousands of children in Myanmar every year fell victim to vision impairment or blindness because of the deficiency of Vitamin A.
UNICEF has stepped forward to help out the children in growing up with normal vision. In this year itself, UNICEF along...
National Bureau of Investigation Intelligence Division has revealed that trafficking of Third World children is on an increase, particularly from Philippines. If they can't be of any use for the traffickers then their body parts are chopped off so they...
According to the report of the UNICEF around 18 million children will be orphaned by AIDS by the end of 2010. It also highlighted that every minute, a child gets infected with HIV and another dies of the AIDS related illness.
UNICEF also pointed out...
Samaritan Purse, a Christian organization has planned to distribute gifts in Christmas among the children of the Third World. The organization will distribute shoeboxes full of toys, school supplies, hygiene items and other small gifts among the...
Pakistan is a conservative country. People here are not ready to talk about HIV/AIDS. There are many false notions attached to it. The killing disease has become a problem for the country. The real statistics are not known as many of the cases go...
Chronic malnutrition is a big problem in Mauritania. Most of the infant deaths occur here due to chronic malnutrition. Unlike severe malnutrition, a child does not look sick nor is at an instant risk...
Cristina Igoa in her book The Inner World of the Immigrant Child explores the real life of the immigrant children living in the United States. She has pointed to the sufferings and oppression, which they grow through.
Igoa, who herself was an immigrant...
Murray state's student-athletes have stood up for a social cause. They have decided to educate the children of Third World countries by donating used books to the schools of Africa. Till now they have donated around 1,500 books.
Radke, SAAC staff...
Brazil has taken an initiative to improve the lives of country’s most neglected and ignored children. The government officials of Brazil UNICEF and other humanitarian organizations as well as business leaders have joined hands together to start a drive,...
UNICEF has revealed that due to lack of clean water, thousands of children in the developing countries are suffering from various diseases.
According to UNICEF, there are millions of girls, who are not allowed to attend schools because of the lack of...
It's a warehouse of its own kind. Here, the shoes are not for sale. Mona Purdy, popularly known as “Shoe Messiah”, is the founder and executive director of “Share your Soles”, a non-profit organization located in Palos Park.
Her organization collects...
Scientists of Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK have started a research to discover a reason for a dramatic rise in brain damage cases in children in the Third World's most-polluted countries.
Biomedical researchers are trying to find out a...

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