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Cyclone Nargis Kills over 100,000
A catastrophic cyclone struck Burma, killing hundreds of thousands, destroying thousands of homes and knocking out power across the land. Cyclone Nargis... |
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Hurricane Felix 2008
Our first trip of 2008 took us back to Nicaragua. We followed through on the pledge made months ago to continue our Hurricane Felix relief efforts. This natural disaster... |
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2007 - Hurricane Felix
We sent 4 container loads of food, medicines, hygiene items, clothing and water purifying equipment to Nicaragua to help the victims of Hurricane Felix. It is our goal... |
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July 23, 2008
Honduras - Desperate Times
It's unimaginable how much suffering goes on in the world today. Honduras is one such place where troubles abound. An estimated 2,000 Honduran children work at local dumps, in order to survive. Scores of children are starving...
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July 15, 2008
California Wildfires Set Record
It’s been three weeks since California’s early wildfire season erupted and records have already been set. As many as 1,781 fires burned...
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June 15, 2008
Flood Waters Rise; Iowa Townspeople Flee
Iowa City Mayor Regina Bailer estimates that about 600 homes were under a forced evacuation order last night, with no current count of homes...
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May 23, 2008
Relief for Cyclone Victims
Breaking News!!! USAID just received permission to send supplies to the Cyclone Nargis survivors in Burma/Myanmar. Help the Children is joining the relief efforts. Humanitarian aid is on the way.
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May 2008
Guatemala City Medical Trip
April and May bring us to Guatemala City where a medical mission trip is underway...
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March 2008
2008 Trip to Honduras
What an amazing journey to Roatan, Honduras. The week of March 21st, we treated over 400 children and...
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February 2008
Hurricane Felix 2008
Our first trip of 2008 took us back to Nicaragua. We followed through on the pledge made months ago...
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September 2007
Guatemala Gives Help the Children a Hospital
The government in Guatemala has given HTC a hospital building to be used for free medical treatments.
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August 2007
Medical Equipment to Third World Countries
Help the Children provides medical equipment to medical clinic in third world countries
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July 2007
NEW! Car Donation Program
Help the Children currently accepts cars from all over the country...
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May 10, 2007
Afganistan: Thousands of Child Labourers
From dawn to dusk black smoke rises from the towering chimneys of brick-making factories in the Sorkhroad district of Afghanistan's...
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May 8, 2007
Iraqi Children Face Long Odds in Fight to Live
The chance that an Iraqi child will live beyond age 5 has plummeted faster than any other nation...
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May 8, 2007
Asia Makes Strides in Cutting Poverty
Many thought it couldn't be done, but Asia is on track...
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May 7, 2007
No Survivors in Cameroon Crash
Rescue workers in Cameroon say there are no signs of any survivors from the Kenya Airways plane that crashed...
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May 7, 2007
Grief and Confusion in Kenya
Relatives in Nairobi of those on board the Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 airliner, which crashed in a swamp near Doula in Cameroon...
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May 6, 2007
China Strengthens Protection of Underprivileged Children
BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) -- China has strengthened the protection of the rights and interests of homeless, poverty-stricken and disabled children...
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May 5, 2007
Kenya Airways Plane Crashes
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 5 Crews searched Saturday for a Kenya Airways flight believed to have crashed en route to Nairobi with 114 aboard.
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May 4, 2007
Kenya: Experts warn of Children's Cancer
Researhers have raised the alarm over rising cases of cancer in Kenya's children...
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May 3, 2007
Kenya: Children's Act
The Children's Act 2001 has been reviewed and will be tabled in Parliament next month.
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May 3, 2007
Taking a Stand Against Global Poverty
While students may be concerned with transferring, financial aid, or just passing their courses, there is one item...
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May 2, 2007
Children in Poverty Have More Sleep Issues
Children from low-income families have more sleep problems compared to children from middle-class families...
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May 2, 2007
Tooth Decay Kills Boy From Poor Family
One in three American kids lack any form of dental insurance -- 27 million children. And the consequences can be deadly...
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April 30, 2007
Aussie Companies Urged to Fight Poverty
Poverty in the Asia-Pacific region will directly threaten companies in Australia...
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April 27, 2007
Millions Impoverished as Eastern Europe and Central Asia Prosper
Geneva - Millions of citizens across Eastern Europe and Central Asia were surviving on less than 2 US dollars a day...
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April 20, 2007
Charity Warning on Child Poverty
Labour has pledged to wipe out child poverty by 2020, but Barnardos Cymru said it had serious doubts...
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April 17, 2007
Two Arrested for Child Trafficking in Nimba
The Liberia National Police (LNP) in Saclepea-Mah, Nimba County have arrested and detained two suspects in connection with child trafficking...
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April 18, 2007
South Sudan Children Still Suffering
Children in southern Sudan face "wartime-levels" of sexual violence...
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April 19,2007
Children in Darfur are Enduring "Unspeakable Acts of Violence and Abuse"
Children in Darfur are enduring "unspeakable acts of violence and abuse"...
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April 2007
Measuring Income and Poverty in the United States
Most measures of poverty, in the U.S. and elsewhere, focus narrowly on income rather than...
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March 28, 2007
Child Poverty Up for First Time in 10 Years
The number of children in the UK living in relative poverty increased by 100,000 last year...
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March 14, 2007
News of Kidnapping
GUATEMALA - Armed abductors take an 8-month old girl from an orphanage...
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March 29, 2007
Columbia: Children Dying Due to Malnutrition
According to figures generated by a hospital, nearly 37 children have died in a gap of two month period...
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March 6, 2007
1 in 6 Ontario Children Live in Poverty
Despite Ontario's strengthening economy, the number of children living in poverty in the province is rising...
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March 5, 2007
Harm of Stress on Children's Health
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Children in families facing chronic stress such as conflict between parents or violence in the home become sick more...
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February 17,2007
18,000 Children Die Every Day of Hunger
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition...
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February 15, 2007
Help the Children
The new year is here already! 2007 is shaping up to be a great year for Help the Children. In September, we will celebrate our tenth year in ministry...
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January 2007
Child Soldiers
In over twenty countries around the world, children are direct participants in war...
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January 27, 2007
Stronger Marriages as Remedy for Child Poverty
In his Washington Update this week, FRC President Tony Perkins notes that, apart from the tremendous social price attached to this issue...
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February 22, 2007
Malnutrition, Engulfing Indias Future Generation
There is enough food in the world for every person to lead a healthy and productive life, but hundreds of millions of people go to bed hungry every night...
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January 25, 2007
One-Fourth of Israelis Live in Poverty
Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) - Figures released by Israel's National Insurance Institute (NII) on Thursday revealed that 1.63 million Israelis, or one-fourth of the entire population, live below the poverty line...
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January 25, 2007
Thousands of Children Missing in Uganda
Some 10,000 children are still missing in Uganda with as many as 1,500 held captive...
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January 13,2007
UN: Africa Won't Reduce Poverty
Africa was unlikely to meet millennium goals for poverty reduction by 2015...
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January 2007
Pray for Medical and Dental Outreach Team
Continue to pray for our medical and dental mission teams. May many children...
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December 19, 2006
More Americans Hungry, Homeless
WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - More Americans went homeless and hungry in 2006 than the year before and children made up...
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December 7, 2007
Poverty Strikes Children
The article, with the headline "Homeless crisis is growing," detailed the increasingly pervasive issue of poverty throughout Los Angeles County...
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December 12, 1007
Hunger Spreading Its Tentacles in Guatemala
Hunger is spreading its tentacles to capture thousands of children in its ambit day by day and this time it has victimized the children of Guatemala...
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December 1, 2006
California Wildfires Making Children Sick?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The wildfires that swept through Southern California in 2003 may have caused wheezing and other respiratory problems in many children...
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November 24, 2006
Aboriginal Children are Poorest in Country
A national network of advocacy groups released a report on Friday that paints a bleak picture of poverty facing First Nations children in Canada...
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November 24,2006
Half of All Latin American Children Live in Poverty
Mexico City (EFE) — Half of all children in Latin America live below the poverty line...
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October 26, 2006
Educators Must Focus on Immigrant Children in the Classroom
Most immigrants' journeys to America are filled with hope and promise not only for themselves, but their children...
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October 19,2006
More L.A. County Children Living in Poverty
Reversing a lontime downward trend, child poverty is on the rise across Los Angeles County...
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October 12, 2007
Israel Poverty: One in Three Children are Hungry
Jerusalem----October 12......As Israel enters into Yom Kippur one fact remains unchanged. One Israel child out of three is poor...
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September 10, 2006
Child Poverty Rate Increases
Nearly one of every five children in rural Ohio lives in poverty...
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June 27, 2007
More Stong Wind Could Drive Tahoe Fire
Firefighters were warned Wednesday that strong afternoon wind could again stoke the turbulent wildfire near Lake Tahoe...
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August 22, 2006
Children Still Drawn into War in Sudan
Children are still being abducted, killed, raped and pressed into warfare as soldiers by armed groups in Sudan...
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June 26, 2007
Crews Make Headway Against California Wildfire
Firefighters say they are making progress against a massive wildfire that has destroyed nearly 300 homes and buildings near Lake Tahoe's
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August 14, 2006
Children's Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty
Timberlake and Michael used U.S. Census data from 1990-2000 to track changes in the distribution of children from five racial and ethnic groups...
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May 11, 2007
Catalina Fire Burns 4,000 Acres
A wildfire burning an estimated 4,000 acres of hillside brush on Santa Catalina Island through the night Thursday forced the evacuation...
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May 9, 2007
Rescuers Constantly Search for Survivors
GREENSBURG - As Capt. Martin Gray of the Topeka Fire Department searched through the debris...
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May 11, 2007
Hundreds Flee S. California Island Wildfire
AVALON, Calif. - Firefighters struggled early Friday to protect a resort island's main city from a wildfire that...
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June 2006
Continued New Orleans Relief
In 2006 Help the Children sent three truckloads of supplies to New Orleans to help in the continued relief efforts.
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May 9, 2007
President Bush Tours Greensburg
President Bush is spending his time in Greensburg hugging women and shaking men's hands as he surveys the destruction...
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June 30, 2006
More U.S. Children Living in Poverty
More children in the United States are living in worse conditions and are less healthy...
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2006
Street Children
Street children thoughout the world are subjected to physical abuse by police...
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May 9, 2007
Wildfire Blazes Behind LA Observatory
LOS ANGELES - Firefighters made progress early Wednesday against a wildfire blazing over Dante's View...
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March 28, 2006
Poverty Trap Snapping Shut on Children
Children and their parents now make up seven out of every 10 people living in homes earning below the level of basic welfare benefits...
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March 28, 2006
Poverty Trap Snapping Shut on Children
Children and their parents now make up seven out of every 10 people living in homes earning below the level of basic welfare benefits...
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May 7, 2007
Bush Pledges Help for Tornado Victims
WASHINGTON • President George W Bush vowed to make available federal aid to rebuild the tornado-ravaged town of Greensburg, Kansas...
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May 7, 2007
2 More Bodies Found in Kansas
GREENSBURG, Kan. - Rescue teams searching the rubble that was once Greensburg found two more victims and a survivor...
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May 1, 2007
Rift Valley Fever Wreaks Havoc following East Africa Floods
Rift Valley Fever, a rare zoonotic viral disease, has claimed 155 lives in Kenya and caused huge losses...
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May 5, 2007
Kansas Tornado
GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) — Tornadoes killed at least seven people and leveled most of this southwest Kansas town...
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April 30, 2007
Kenya: 2,640 People Affected by Floods in Budalangi
Approximately 2460 people (410 families) have been displaced following floods that have hit parts of Budalangi...
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