The World's Children - Winter 2016

World'sChildren SUPPORTER MAGAZINE – WINTER 2016

GIVING GIRLS THEIR CHANCE TO SHINE A brighter future for the children of Daulatdia brothel > page 13

STORIES FROM THE CENTRE OF THE STORM

On the ground in the aftermath of Cyclone Winston

LETTER FROM LAOS

What your support means for mothers and babies in Laos

*Name has been changed to protect identity. Photo: Jonathan Hyams/Save the Children

> Your support helps us provide support and protection to girls like Rebecca* in South Sudan.

Thank you!

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WELCOME TO The World’s Children Six years ago, I visited Bangladesh’s Daulatdia brothel (p13) for the first time.

To say I was shocked at what I saw is an understatement – even after 30 years working in child protection.

While I was there, it was the sound of children playing and laughing that struck me more than anything else. How could children living in a place where sex is the main commodity manage to stay so happy?

The truth was, at that point in their lives, they were oblivious to the reality of their situation. The fact that their mothers were sex workers was not yet an issue for them.

But as children grow older, realisation sweeps over them. They begin to understand the danger they live in – and the fear of becoming sex workers like their mothers and grandmothers starts to overwhelm them.

No child should have to dread their future like the children living in Daulatdia. They need to be given the chance to find a different pathway. We work in places like Daulatdia to give children support, protection and education. The story on page 13 shows how your support can help make that happen.

All the stories in The World’s Children are only possible because of people like you – and for that, I can’t thank you enough.

Karen Flanagan Child Protection Advisor Save the Children Australia

Giving girls the chance to shine in Bangladesh, p13

CONTENTS Against all the odds

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Stories from the centre of the storm

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Updates from the frontline

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In the shadow of the headlines

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Smiling from the inside out

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A passion for education in the outback

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Giving girls their chance to shine

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Strong young voices

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A mother's love

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The faces behind the refugee crises

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Letter from Laos

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Equality for every Australian child

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Second-hand helpers

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AGAINST all the odds

When we first met Bishara, she was suffering from severe malnutrition and her life was in serious danger.

Five years on, her future is looking much brighter.

These days, Bishara is a happy and healthy six-year-old. Just what you would hope a child her age would be. But when we first met her, five years ago, her future looked bleak.

At 15 months old, Bishara had diarrhoea and a constant fever. Her agonising screams cut through the silence of the night. She weighed just 4.5 kilograms – less than half the weight a baby should be, on average, at that age.

Bishara lives in Kenya and in 2011, the country was in the grip of the East Africa Food Crisis. It changed everything for Bishara’s family.

Her grandmother told us about life before the drought. “Our animals gave us milk, plus we could sell them to earn money to buy food. We were happy with this life.

Our children had enough to eat and they were healthy.”

However, when the drought hit in 2011, Bishara's health declined at an alarming rate.

Worried for her safety, Bishara's grandmother took her to a Save the Children-supported stabilisation centre, where we gave her therapeutic milk and peanut paste to build her strength.

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The change – just six weeks later – was remarkable. “She plays with the kids,” her grandmother told us, “she walks around, she laughs with me.”

“I’m very grateful to Save the Children.

They counselled and encouraged me when Bishara was admitted, until she was cured.

After being discharged, they followed up and brought me food stuff and clothes…

Save the Children saved Bishara’s life.”

This is why your help means so much.

Lives like Bishara’s are saved, thanks to your support.

It’s now five years since we first met Bishara. And it’s hard to believe she’s the same little girl that came to our stabilisation centre in 2011.

When her grandmother says Save the Children saved her life, that means you, and people like you who support our work.

When food runs out. When water runs dry. When all other options have been exhausted, Save the Children is there, reaching children who need it most.

And that’s thanks to you.

Five years after we treated Bishara, Kenya's neighbour, Ethiopia, is suffering its worst food crisis in 50 years. Haven’t heard much about it? Turn to page 10 to find out why.

Photo: Allan Gichigi/Save the Children

> Bishara is now a smiling six-year-old after fighting back against severe malnutrition in 2011.

STORIES FROM THE CENTRE of the storm When a disaster hits, our teams are on the ground as fast as possible – including people like Rob McKechnie who makes sure people’s stories reach supporters like you.

I arrived into Nadi, on Fiji’s main island, after a red-eye flight from Melbourne.

I was in Fiji as part of Save the Children’s response to Tropical Cyclone Winston – the strongest storm to ever hit the island nation.

It’s my job to make sure stories from the centre of storms like Cyclone Winston reach people like you. To listen to families whose lives are in turmoil and make sure the world knows the scale of what's happened.

Bleary-eyed from the flight, I turned on my phone to find a voicemail from our staff in Fiji. I was to head north.

As I drove, the full force of Winston revealed itself.

Rows and rows of damaged houses with roofs torn from walls below. Trees snapped in half. Downed power lines.

Clothes, towels, bed sheets, even teddy bears hung on clothes lines outside the schools. It was a sign that they had become makeshift evacuation centres.

One of the people I met was a 12-yearold girl called Unaisi. When I asked her about the night of the cyclone, she told me how she saw the walls of her house

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fall, how the roof was ripped off, how she felt as though there was nothing left.

I can't imagine how difficult it must be to describe the ice-cold fear and terror of living through a cyclone. How it feels to be surrounded by roaring winds strong enough to knock you over. Sheets of corrugated iron flying through the air.

As I continued along the road, I saw more and more destruction. Damaged wardrobes resting on three legs, sopping clothes falling out of their drawers.

Smashed belongings. Kitchen utensils, books and bedding strewn here and there. People’s precious possessions at the mercy of the elements.

A woman I met in an evacuation centre told me how the waist-high water had decimated her crops – the family's only source of income. Now they have to wonder how they will ever rebuild their lives.

It will be a long recovery for Fiji – months, if not years. But I know Save the Children is in it for the long haul.

When Save the Children Australia responds to emergencies, we don’t just tackle the immediate problems – we stay on long-term to help people get back on their feet. Turn to page 7 to find out more about our current emergency responses.

Photo: Robert McKechnie/Save the Children

> As Cyclone Winston tore through her village, Unaisi and her family were forced to leave their home, which was severely damaged in the storm.

UPDATES FROM Save the Children Australia is currently helping to respond to 13 emergencies around the world.

These are three of our largest responses.

CYCLONE WINST�N, FIJI

DR�UGHT IN ETHIOPIA

REFUGEE CRISIS

About 350,000 people were affected when Tropical Cyclone Winston ripped through Fiji in February this year.

Ethiopia’s drought continues to worsen. More than 10 million people are in need of emergency food assistance; more than half are children.

The number of people making perilous journeys to flee conflict and persecution is at an all-time high. More than 65 million people have been forced from their home, including more than 21 million refugees.

To help people affected, we have rehabilitated water systems, set up safe spaces for children and helped kids get back to school.

So far, we’ve reached more than 13,000 people, including almost 10,000 children.

Turn to page 5 to find out what it was like in Fiji during the days immediately after Cyclone Winston.

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We are providing water to communities, treating malnutrition, distributing animal feed and training farmers to grow droughtresistant crops. Save the Children has reached more than 1.1 million children during the last two years.

Read more on page 9 about the drought in Ethiopia and donate at savethechildren.org.au/ drought

Many are fleeing countries such as Syria and Iraq in search of safety. We work all along the routes they take, including in transit countries such as Greece and Lebanon.

You can find out more about how we’re supporting refugees in Greece on page 19.

Photos: Robert McKechnie/Save the Children, Stuart Sia/Save the Children, Pedro Armestre/Save the Children

Photo: Pedro Armestre/Save the Children

> More than 850,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Greece by sea in 2015. We’re there providing food and support to families and children.

IN THE SHADOW OF THE headlines

Ethiopia is being ravaged by drought. Yet, with the focus of the media elsewhere, it's almost impossible for us to show how millions of lives hang in the balance.

If you’ve ever been to Ethiopia, you’ll know it’s a nation of farmers. Those ancient lands have been farmed for more than 5,000 years and, today, around 80 percent of the workforce still toils in its fields.

good media coverage than slow, creeping emergencies like the drought in Ethiopia.

Imagine, then, the impact of a drought.

Crops failing, animals dying, communities packing up and leaving their ancestral homelands because there’s simply no food. This is the reality of Ethiopia today – in some places, there’s barely been a drop of rain for years.

“I hope our work will help garner the world’s attention towards this devastating drought in Ethiopia, and help us prevent the crisis from becoming a catastrophe,” says Lily Partland, a Save the Children media manager who recently visited the worst-affected areas in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is suffering its worst drought in 50 years.

This is a crisis of epic proportions for millions of families. But nobody is talking about it. A year and a half has gone by without the mainstream media taking more than a passing interest. It’s time for the world to open its eyes.

According to the Ethiopian government, more than 10 million people need emergency food assistance, including nearly 6 million children. Other sources estimate these numbers are even higher.

Why isn’t anyone talking?

Disasters that change lives in the blink of an eye – such as last year’s Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu and Nepal’s two devastating earthquakes – are far more likely to get

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Yet, the scale of slow-growing disasters is often vast. Many hungry mouths and many precious lives lost.

Thankfully, we know people like you won’t turn away. And we want to thank you for continuing to show your support for Save the Children, so we can continue to save lives in emergencies, like the drought in Ethiopia.

Every last child deserves safety and protection, which is why we’ve been on the ground, responding to this emergency since it began in 2014. Since the drought hit, we’ve provided more than 1 million children with food, water, medicine and schooling and we’ve provided crucial support to tens of thousands of families who have lost their incomes.

You can find out more about what’s happening in Ethiopia and support our response at: savethechildren.org.au/drought

Photo: Zacharias Abubeker/Save the Children

> This little boy from Afar, Ethiopia, is suffering from severe acute malnutrition. His mid-upper arm circumference is dangerously low – less than 12cm.

SMILING FROM THE inside out

Mums and bubs spending precious time together in Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre.

Imagine you’re a toddler. Your days are filled with playing, learning about the world around you and bonding with mum and dad. Until one day your life is turned upside down – and mum is taken away.

Through no fault of your own, you’ve lost your mum.

Our playgroup at Brisbane Women's Correctional Centre is helping to make sure kids don't miss out on precious one-on-one time with their mums.

The weekly session provides an opportunity for them to play and learn together in a supported environment.

Without the program, children simply wouldn’t have any quality bonding time with their mothers.

The first five years of a child’s life are critical and this is when the most development occurs. “It’s so valuable for a child’s development and growth to have that love and support, so our program is about setting the right foundation at the very beginning,” explains Coral, a Save the Children early childhood educator.

Save the Children also runs playgroups in the Brisbane community. Parents who are leaving the correctional centres can come to these groups and, thanks to the playgroups in the correctional centres, they are already familiar with our staff and the way the groups are run.

“The most wonderful thing about this program is to see the children’s faces when they see their mums,” said Coral.

Did you know?

Queensland is the toughest place to be a mother in Australia, as detailed in our recent report State of Australia’s Mothers.

Read the full report at: savethechildren. org.au/australias-luckiest-mums

Photo: Robert McKechnie/Save the Children

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A PASSION FOR EDUCATION in the outback

How Save the Children supporter, Liz, is honouring her late husband and celebrating their mutual love for the land and its children.

They shared a love of the outback and the Western Desert, and learned many Aboriginal languages, developing close relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and a great respect for their culture.

“The work of Save the Children in remote areas is so important for the education of Aboriginal children and their communities,” says Liz. In 2015, she decided to leave a gift to Save the Children in her Will.

“I am happy to know I can honour my late husband’s memory by leaving a gift in my Will. It is a continuation of what we have done all our working lives and what we believe.”

Thank you Liz for your dedication to children.

You can create a lasting legacy by leaving a gift to Save the Children Australia in your Will. To find out more, contact us at: bequests@savethechildren.org.au

Photos: Robert McKechnie/Save the Children

Liz is passionate about teaching Aboriginal children in remote areas.

She and her late husband, Leo, taught bush education for more than 30 years in the Papunya settlement and across the Northern Territory.

GIVING GIRLS THEIR CHANCE to shine In a world no child should have to be part of, we are providing support, protection and hope for a better future.

Imagine a little girl. She’s just ten years old and she’s standing by the door of her home. A steady stream of people passes by. And her head is full of dreams.

But she stands in the centre of one of the largest brothels in the world. Surrounded by a world that no child should have to be a part of. Surrounded by sex, and greed, and exploitation. Dirty water and used condoms. Alcohol, drugs and gambling.

Will she get to live out her dreams?

The odds aren't in her favour.

She lives in Daulatdia, a brothel that sprawls along the River Padma in Bangladesh. It's home to 3,000 men, women and children.

Traffickers brought the girl's mother here when she was just 15 years old and forced her into a life of sex work. Now her daughter’s life is racing down a path she has little control over.

It won’t be long before that little girl becomes a commodity. She will be bought and sold for the gratification of men. She will become a sex worker, like her mum because neither of them have a choice.

This is the reality of life for thousands of girls in places like Daulatdia. It's a vicious cycle that keeps children locked in a dark and dangerous world.

Children of women who are sex workers in places like Daulatdia are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, every day of their lives. They constantly come face-toface with things that no child should have to experience.

They face unique risks and discrimination, often being denied proper care and education. And eventually their lives begin to follow the same path their mothers were forced down years before.

Y�U CAN HELP CHANGE THIS ST�RY

Save the Children works to give protection and hope to children living in places like Daulatdia. With support from people like you, we can give girls the chance to find a different path and a different future. Keep reading > Photo: Robert McKechnie/Save the Children

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Photo: Robert McKechnie/Save the Children

> 4 year old Nisita* lives in Bangladesh's Faridpur brothel with her mother who is a sex worker. *Name has been changed to protect identity.

GIVING GIRLS THEIR CHANCE to shine

We're working hard to break down the discrimination that children in Daulatdia face. With your support, we're opening up new opportunities and giving kids a chance of a brighter future.

We work with schools so all children can attend school. We speak with doctors and nurses so children and mothers aren’t turned away. And we help young people – particularly girls – stand up for their rights.

Our work with Mukti shows what a difference your support can make. She was just ten years old when we met her.

Her future was uncertain – growing up in Daulatdia meant the outlook was bleak.

But Save the Children started working with Mukti and thanks to her incredible

perseverance and the generosity of supporters like you, we helped her to not only complete her high school education, but enter university too.

Then, last year, she became a social worker with Save the Children. “Today my dream has come true!” she said, as she told us about receiving the news, “I could not control myself, just cried a lot. These were tears of happiness.”

“Without this support I could not be the girl I am today…Now I dream of a complete family life…I hope to save for this long-cherished dream.”

We'll do all we can to give other girls like Mukti the chance to follow their dreams.

HELP GIVE GIRLS A BRIGHTER FUTURE.

You can help us reach more girls in places like Daulatdia who are full of potential and are just waiting for their chance to shine. Your support could: Supply girls with school books to help them learn.

Provide vocational training to support girls on their way to a better future.

Help run a safe space where children can access support and counselling.

Call us on 1800 76 00 11 or donate online at: savethechildren.org.au/chance-to-shine

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“EVENING IS MY FAVOURITE TIME, IT IS QUIET AND THE BEST TIME TO STUDY. SOMETIMES FIREFLIES COME INTO MY ROOM. I WATCH THEM, AND ENVY THEIR FREEDOM AND THE MAGIC OF THEIR LIGHT.”

“IT’S MY DREAM TO BE A JOURNALIST AND TRAVEL. I WOULD LIKE TO BE KNOWN FOR MY COMPASSION AND KINDNESS AND NOT AS A CHILD FROM THE BROTHEL.”

> Mou (above) and Shoma are two of the girls Save the Children is supporting in Daulatdia brothel by protecting them from harm and helping them build themselves a better future.

Four young Australians are determined to help make the world a better place. Meet Lilly and her fellow Save the Children Australia Youth Ambassadors.

Fourteen-year-old Lilly is a very special young lady. Born and bred in Sydney’s western suburbs, this year she’s excited to be chosen as one of four Save the Children Australia Youth Ambassadors.

“It's youth helping youth. Stopping bullying and helping kids who have been bullied is a serious issue, and this needs to be taken care of in Australia and all around the world,” she said.

Lilly feels a strong connection between Save the Children and her family. “My brother and sister are half Ethiopian, and my mother's ex-partner would teach me all about famine and drought and how Save the Children helped his community and local orphanage when he was a boy,” she said.

She is motivated by stories from her adopted father, who is from Sierra Leone.

“Sadly we lost a few family members, who were children, due to Ebola and the lack of medical services available to young people.”

“Hearing the stories as a young girl taught me how lucky we are to live in Australia, and that the fortunate should always do their best to help the less fortunate.”

“I think young people like myself can advocate with great results for more aid and services for such countries and the children that are suffering,” she said.

Lilly's passion for helping others also stems from a shocking childhood experience of sexual assault by a family member. She is a strong advocate for sexual assault victims and people who've experienced homelessness and drug and alcohol abuse.

Lilly loves helping her local community and she’s started her own program in schools called 'What's Up Monitors' where a child helps another child in need.

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Lilly also hosts her own show for young people on local radio station 2GLF.

“A young person's voice can be so powerful. One person, one voice can make a difference.”

Every year, our Campaigns Team works with Youth Ambassadors to help them lobby Australian politicians and speak out publicly about issues that affect them.

Follow our 2016 Youth Ambassadors here: savethechildren.org.au/youth-ambassadors

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Salma had to sell all her possessions, travel thousands of kilometres and risk her life to find safety and security for her children.

Most mothers will do anything to give their children the best chance at life – and sometimes that means making hard decisions.

Salma* had to flee her home in Syria to save her three children. Years of conflict had left their town divided between two warring forces. They couldn’t get enough food to eat. Salma’s oldest son was being forced to become a fighter.

Faced with few alternatives, the family sold their house for US $6,000 – a tenth of its actual value – and made the journey to Europe. They are now living in a camp on the Greek island of Lesvos.

More than 57,000 refugees and migrants are currently stranded in Greece. Since the borders with the Balkan countries shut in March, many families have been languishing in deplorable conditions in both official and unofficial camps across the country, not knowing what will become of them.

“The boat trip was the worst experience of my life,” Salma says. “After one-anda-half hours, the engine stopped. I thought that was it, that it was the end.

I took my daughter and rocked her to sleep – because I didn’t want her to know that death was coming, and to see the situation she was going to die in.”

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They managed to survive, paddling the last few hundred metres to the beach with their hands. “It was like a dream when we saw the beach,” Salma says with a small smile. “My son said to me ‘I think we are safe now.’ He put his hand in the sea just to make sure he was alive.

“The most important thing for me is that we are safe here. We can sleep in the night and not worry about the bombs.”

Of all the refugees and migrants currently stranded in Greece, it’s women and children who are most at risk.

Save the Children is working across the country, providing vital protection and support for women and children. We run child friendly spaces where children can learn, play and access emotional support, as well as mother and baby areas where mothers can breastfeed in private, wash their babies and access information about nutrition. We also support shelters for children travelling alone.

No matter what, we’ll keep supporting mothers like Salma to help them protect their children – and their children’s futures.

More than 65 million people around the world have had to flee their homes because of violence or persecution, including more than 21 million refugees. *Name has been changed to protect identity.

Photo: Anna Pantelia/Save the Children

> A mother and her son watch the boats on the Greek island of Lesvos. Children often arrive on the island scared and exhausted.

THE FACES BEHIND THE There are 21 million refugees in our world today.

Here are just some of the children behind the increasingly worrying statistics, each with their own story to tell.

ARWA FROM IRAQ

NADIR FROM AFGHANISTAN

AHMAD FROM SYRIA Clockwise from top left: > Arwa* and her family are among the 3.1 million displaced people in Iraq.

Shelling in their town forced them to flee. > Nadir* is 11 years old. “We did the trip from Turkey to Greece at night…it was cold and the water came up to my knees. My life jacket was fake…I would like to work as a dentist and help my family.” > Ahmad* is just 5 years old. He fled Syria with his family four years ago when an armed group raided their house.

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*Names have been changed to protect identities.

FARIA FROM IRAQ

BABY SABAH FROM SYRIA

HATEM FROM SYRIA

Clockwise from top left: > Faria’s* mother fled Iraq with her children when her husband was brutally killed. She was five months pregnant at the time and the journey to Greece took two months. > “I saw my school getting hit by an airstrike. I was scared that my house would be targeted.” Hatem* has now spent four years in Anjar refugee camp, Lebanon. > Makis from Save the Children holds baby Sabah* in Cherso refugee camp, Greece.

Photos (left page, clockwise from top left): CJ Clarke/Save the Children, Pedro Armestre/Save the Children, Nour Wahid/Save the Children, (right page, clockwise from top left): Anna Pantelia/Save the Children, Louis Leeson/Save the Children, Anna Pantelia/Save the Children

LETTER FROM Laos

To all of you who donated to our appeal to help save the lives of babies and their mothers in Laos – thank you! Suzanne has been sharing stories with you over the past few months. Here’s her latest update.

A few days before I travelled to Laos, I decided to call one of my friends.

I asked her how it felt to be pregnant and carry a little life around with her for nine months. Her answer?

“Amazing. Terrifying. Uncomfortable.

Painful…Wonderful.”

We ended up talking for a long time about her pregnancies and her two babies. That conversation helped me understand what I saw in Laos far better than I would have done otherwise.

She told me about the midwife that looked after her during the birth of her first baby, a boy. She said she was amazing and didn’t leave her side for the whole ten hours. That she looked after her like a mum and made her feel really safe.

My friend told me how she initially felt clueless during her first pregnancy. That she didn’t know what was normal and what needed investigating. And that’s with all the information we have at our fingertips – the internet provides a wealth of information, but nothing can beat experience and advice from an expert.

So it is fantastic to know that people like you are helping us train more midwives in Laos. You’re helping to create big and important change for women and their babies around the world.

When I think about all the little lives you’re helping to save, one thing my friend said about having children really stands out to me. “The love builds up. You get to know them, you love them a little bit more all the time.”

With your support, more mothers will get to experience that wonderful feeling.

So I had that in my mind when I met Jin, who gave birth alone because her baby was premature. And Nith, who had to travel by boat in search of help when her baby started coming in the breech position. And Som who gave birth in the dark, with no midwife by her side.

How are you helping?

Jin, Nith and Som all lost their babies.

It's life-saving work that you're helping make happen.

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Thanks to your support, we are training midwives to provide vital care to mothers and babies in countries like Laos.

We're also building health centres and stocking them with essential supplies and equipment.

Photo: David Wardell/Save the Children

SUMALEE & HER BABY JIN, MO & SAIFON

KENG, PHET & THEIR BABY Clockwise from top left: > Jin, her three-year-old son, Mo, and five-monthold baby, Saifon, were the first people I met in Laos. Jin lost her other child when he was just six days old. > On one of the busiest days in Ngoy District Health Centre, Sumalee brought in her threemonth old baby for a check-up. > Phet and Keng invited us into their home and told us about the birth of their baby 17 days earlier. Phet came very close to dying, but was saved by Save the Children-trained midwives.

KET

> This is Ket, a midwife at Ngoy District Health Centre – one of the warmest and most engaging people I’ve ever met!

EQUALITY FOR EVERY Australian child Our new campaign, Every Last Child, is calling for equal opportunities for all children.

Photo: Robert McKechnie/Save the Children

Does Australia give all its children a level playing field? We put the question to everyday Aussies in a poll earlier this year and it revealed that 84 percent of us are concerned about child discrimination in our country.

We need to step up the fight for Australia’s children.

We want to highlight the problem of discrimination faced by children here in Australia and around the world – and do whatever we can to stop it. So, in April, we launched our new campaign, Every Last Child.

The campaign will fight to help every child enjoy equal opportunities, and grow up with access to quality healthcare, education and nutrition – regardless of who they are or where they live.

In short, we are calling for a rethink towards equality for children in Australia and around the world.

Our poll also found that 9 out of 10 Australians think most Aboriginal and

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Torres Strait Islander children aren't ready when they start primary school – and almost two-thirds say a lack of access to support services is part of the cause.

Given this concern, our campaign will have a special focus on increasing equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

Over the coming year, we'll be ramping up our Every Last Child campaign.

Check in at savethechildren.org.au for the latest updates.

SECOND-HAND helpers

Shopping takes on a whole new meaning when you visit our Op Shops. This is what your purchases could mean for children.

VINTAGE DINNER SET $35

could help provide a family in Nepal with a household kit which includes essential supplies for cooking nutritious meals.

6 BOOKS $12

could help a vulnerable girl stay in school for a month in Bangladesh.

TEAPOT $5

could help provide precious clean water for a child at school in East Africa for 2 weeks.

WINTER COAT, SCARF & BLANKET $23 could go towards providing a child in Syria with a kit of winter clothes.

Find your nearest Save the Children Op Shop at: savethechildren.org.au/op-shops

Front cover photo: Robert McKechnie/Save the Children Back cover photo: Louis Leeson/Save the Children

For the latest from Save the Children savethechildren.org.au @savechildrenaus

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