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Cambodia: Sokha, six,
Mao’s younger sister, washes
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and mother-care centre in
her village, in Bihar.
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What we do in emergencies
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We helped more than 7.6 million children survive emergency situations
including natural disasters and armed conflict in the last year:
We know what to do when disaster strikes.
With your support, we can deliver both
immediate care and long-term assistance. Help
us to be prepared when emergencies strike.
• We provide life-saving nutritious food to severely malnourished children
and families.
• We deliver essential household items to families including water and
hygiene kits.
• We help children recover by providing quality education, safe play spaces
and emotional support.
$2 a day / $60 a month
Helps buy a goat or basic
healthcare for a year
$1.50 a day / $45 a month
• We work to protect children from the abuse, neglect, exploitation and
violence that can come with emergencies. We help them recover from their
experiences.
Helps buy a food basket or
textbooks
• We design programmes that help children recover from natural disasters.
After the Christchurch earthquake, we provided the Journey of Hope
programme that helps children build resilience.
$1.30 a day / $39 a month
Helps buy seeds, bed nets, or eggs
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Thank you for your
support of our Children’s
Emergency Fund - you help
make a huge difference to
children’s lives.
Around the world, Save the Children
prepares for and responds to emergencies
when needed. We save lives by delivering
life-saving healthcare, food and clean
water and we help children recover
afterwards by providing quality education
and safe spaces to play.
We also ensure families know how
to stick together and we often help trace
children if they get separated from their
families.
This past year Save the Children reached
more than 7.6 million children in 53
emergencies. Once an emergency is over,
our job is far from finished. We stay
and help local communities recover and
re-establish their lives and help ensure
long-term solutions are in place.
Syria
Save the Children continues to work on the borders of Syria helping children and families
who have fled the country. Children are arriving in refugee camps in neighbouring countries
frightened, traumatised and hungry. Earlier this year we allocated $60,000 to this response
from our Children’s Emergency Fund.
Working together with partner organisations, we are:
•
providing specialist support to children who need immediate help to cope with what
they have witnessed
•
working with other agencies to register refugees and distribute food, soap, towels,
buckets and toothbrushes for refugee families
•
working with children who arrive from Syria alone and unaccompanied, providing them
with alternative foster care until they are reunited with their extended families
•
giving children access to education so they have the structure they so desperately need,
and safe places to play
•
preparing stocks of essential supplies at borders so that if we are allowed access to Syria
we can quickly reach the children and families inside the country who need our help.
Save the Children is also lobbying internationally for an end to the violence. Recently
Save the Children International published testimonies of children talking about what they
have witnessed and experienced. You can read these on our website at:
www.savethechildren.org.nz/news/publications
This is the story of Rama, 10 years old
“Before we took a taxi from Syria, I was running with my parents to a nearby village. It took us
two hours to get there. We heard the shooting everywhere; my mother almost got killed if it
wasn’t for my father pulling her towards him. I was scared. I thought we were going to die.
I remember that we took a taxi there with my mother while my father stayed in Syria.
“I worry about him a lot; I wish he can come to Lebanon but he can’t because he needs to
look after my grandmother.
“I am happy at the child-friendly space. I play and make new friends. If I weren’t coming to the
child-friendly space, I would spend my time with my friends, looking after my brother and sister
or staring through the window thinking about my father. There is nothing to do at home.
We don’t go out much; we don’t have the money for it.
“I don’t want to go back to Syria now because there are no schools. I want to stay here.”
Rama, 10, with her brother Mahmoud, three, at the safe space run by one of Save the
Children’s partners in Lebanon.
Photo: Dalia Khamissy / Save the Children
The Philippines
After tropical storm Haikui hit the Philippines in July this year, destroying
homes and forcing families to evacuate, our Children’s Emergency Fund
provided $25,000 to support the emergency response. Save the Children
staff were able to deliver essential household items to affected families.
In the wake of an emergency it’s vital that children can play in a safe
space and access education. Save the Children has supported the set
up of eight child-friendly spaces and five temporary learning spaces in
affected areas. To date, a total of 1,426 children have received back-toschool kits so that their learning is not disrupted.
Save the Children has also initiated longer term clean-up projects for
flood-affected and damaged schools through programmes that give
families cash grants to help them get back on their feet and rebuild
their lives.
So far, 51 individuals have already received their cash/voucher transfers
in exchange for the services they offered to help clean the surroundings
of their ravaged public schools.
Photo: Save the Children. Rosalie, ten, sits in her part of the classroom where she
sleeps at her primary school, which has been turned into an evacuation centre.
Rosalie Bonifacio, also 10 years old
Rosalie witnessed the water in Metro Manila rise from her
waist, to her chest, and finally to her shoulder.
“Before I went to bed, the water was up to here,” she said,
holding her hand up to her waist. “So we put chairs together
in the middle of the room and slept on them.”
West Africa Food Crisis
It’s not simply drought or lack of food that is leaving so many children
facing starvation in the Sahel region of West Africa.
A deadly combination of previous food crises, increases in food prices
and conflict in neighbouring countries has left many families without
stockpiles of food. They can’t afford to purchase what they need and
right now over one million children across the Sahel are facing starvation.
Save the Children New Zealand is providing support to the response in
Mauritania, where as many as 12,600 children are suffering from severe
acute malnutrition.
Our teams are working in Brakna and Gorgol, two of the worst-affected
regions, supporting families who need our help the most.
And because of your donations to the Children’s Emergency Fund,
Save the Children New Zealand has been able to give $50,000 to the
work in Mauritania. These funds will directly help families survive the
coming months.
“When I woke up, the water was up to here.” She raises
her arm up to her shoulder. It left them no choice but seek
dry land outside of their home. “We took some of our things
and left our house. It was so hard to walk. My feet felt heavy
in the water.”
Since then, Rosalie and her family have been living in a
classroom on the second floor of her primary school, which
has been turned into an evacuation centre. Most of these
centres are without electricity, running water, adequate
sanitation and are often cramped with up to twelve families
in a room.
So far, Save the Children has reached more than 5,000
children and their families with pre-made emergency kits that
include blankets, sleeping mats, and hygiene materials.
Photo: Oscar Naranjo / Save the Children
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Assia from Gorgol, Mauritania
Assia receives the help from Save the Children, which she will exchange for rice,
oil, onions and condiments to cook and feed her children. A representative of the
village, chosen in an assembly, checks the process is correct.
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Dear Supporter,
As I reflect on the past year, I am hopeful for the future of the
millions of children around the world whose lives we continue
to touch. Last year alone Save the Children helped 7.6 million
children caught in emergencies.
Every child is important and Mariam’s story inspires me.
I know we are making a difference in her life. Like children
everywhere, she has hopes and dreams. With your support
Save the Children can turn them into reality.
While natural disasters and conflicts often make dramatic news
headlines, Save the Children works behind those headlines. On
the ground every day, we help children survive and improve
their chances for a better life. Our work in health and education
delivers long-term opportunities for children. And we believe
children’s learning shouldn’t stop during an emergency.
The festive season is often a time for us to reflect. This
year, please help us continue our work supporting children
like Mariam.
On behalf of all the staff and volunteers at Save the Children
I wish you, your family and friends, a happy and safe festive
season and New Year.
Behind the headlines there are so many stories of hope.
(Read Mariam’s story overleaf.)
Dr Allan Freeth
Director, Save the Children New Zealand
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Mariam’s story
Four-year-old Mariam and her brothers and sisters were living in
the midst of an intensifying conflict in the Khyber Pass in Pakistan.
They had not been able to go to school since the fighting near
their village started.
Save the Children knows that in emergencies education is more
important than ever. It helps children recover emotionally and
keeps them physically safe and out of harm’s way while their
parents rebuild their lives.
Desperate to escape the violence, Mariam’s family fled their
home to the relative safety of camps and overcrowded
temporary accommodation in Peshawar.
With the help of supporters like you, Mariam now attends a
temporary learning space set up by Save the Children. Here she
can play, learn and regain a sense of normality.
As Mariam’s parents struggled to find food and adequate shelter
it’s hardly surprising that their children’s education became less
of a priority. Far from home, Mariam missed her friends and
was lonely.
Mariam is enjoying the chance to learn. Her big sister Fahia
told us, “Every night before she goes to sleep, Mariam keeps
her school bag with her pencils and eraser close to her bed.
She guards her supplies for fear that I may take her things even
though I have a set of my own!”
Mariam,
Pakistan
Left: Mariam, four, with
her sister, Fahia.
Right: Mariam is taught
to hold a pencil properly
at a temporary learning
space in Peshawar.
Photo: Save the Children 2012.
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