Save the Children
Submitted by Speedbird on Sun, 03/08/2008 - 3:57pm.
About our charity : 
Save the Children
We're outraged that millions of children are still denied proper healthcare, food, education and protection. We're working flat out to get every child their rights and we're determined to make further, faster changes. How many? How fast? It's up to you.
Charity Registration No 213890
Save the Children is the worlds' largest independent organisation for children. Helping children in over 110 countries, Save the Children does great work in Mongolia and elsewhere, wherever there is a need. Fighting for children who suffer from poverty, disease, injustice and violence, Save the Children operates without fear or prejudice. In Mongolia, street children in the capital are particularly vunerable. They spend the harsh winters (sometimes as cold as -50 degrees C) under the streets, surviving by staying close to the steam pipes that supply the heating of apartment blocks and buildings around the city. Save the Children provide the education and protection that they need.
You may be wondering how these children ended up in this dire situation and what happened to their families. Well, it is a natural tragedy. Exceptionally harsh winters in 2001 and 2002 destroyed vast herds of livestock; the animals that are the be all and end all of nomadic existence. Deprived of an income and means to live by natural disaster, the nomadic rural families moved to the city in search of work and food ... nomadic people forced into an alien urban environment. It could only end in tears, and in tears it certainly, and predictably, did. Work was not found, accommodation was not available, families were forced into the streets. The weak died; families got lost and seperated - and children were left to the mercy of those of us better equipped to help ....
So are you going to help? To support Save the Children in helping to sort this natural, human tragedy out, sponsor Team 50*North by clicking the link to our Just Giving page.
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