Global Action for Children

March 10, 2010: United Nations and international aid agencies are kicking off a mass polio immunization campaign across 19 countries in West and Central Africa on Saturday.  The agencies say they aim to vaccinate more than 85 million children under five against the poliovirus in an effort to stop a year-long polio epidemic in the region. 

March 10, 2010: The Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has expressed determination to collaborate with Community Action for Popular Participation (CAPP), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), to train teachers on promotion of girl-child education through formation of social clubs for girls.

March 8, 2010: Omani Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers, Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud al Said received Arab Education Ministers and those responsible for the regional and international educational organizations attending the 7th conference in Muscat City. Conversation covered the major issues including the status of post basic education in the Arab world, secondary education, means of developing and diversifying its paths, laying a list of quality criteria and reviewing the international expertise in this field in a bid to benefit from them.

March 4, 2010: African children living in countries still suffering from polio, a disease eradicated in most countries, are about to receive some help. In the fight against crippling diseases that strike down children, polio is the word of the day.

March 4, 2010: Children's charity World Vision is helping communities overcome poverty and ignorance in Africa, Chris Harvey sees the results of child sponsorship in rural Sierra Leone.

February 26, 2010: The economic crisis of 2008 provided a stark reminder of the potential pitfalls of globalization. Due to its origins in US markets, early concerns focused on the crisis's impact on western nations. Now, a report issued by the United Nations and the Asian Development Bank on February 17 demonstrates the effect of the crisis on one of the poorer regions of the world.

February 24, 2010: Despite several efforts, strategies and plans by various actors, the issue of poverty is yet to decline in Nigeria. More than 70 million citizens are said to be affected by the scourge, which is prominent among the global Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

February 21, 2010: Despite the expenditure of billions of dollars on development aid and the launch of high-profile initiatives such as the Millennium Development Goals, the blight of hunger has not been defeated. If anything, its grip on hundreds of millions of people is as tight as ever.

February 18, 2010: An intensive campaign is underway in Haiti to immunise around 1.5 million Haitians amid concerns of increased risks of disease outbreaks after last month's catastrophic earthquake.

February 18, 2010: Sher Bano is a 17-year-old Pashtun girl from Pakistan who spent last year as an exchange student in Evanston, Illinois, as part of the Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program. She is now back in the city of Peshawar in the northwest of Pakistan, but is unable to attend formal school because of insecurity there. As a guest blogger, she'll be writing about life in Pakistan from the perspective of a teenage girl who has spent time in the West.