World News For A New Year

HAPPY 2009!!!

AMAZING VICTORIES IN 2008
Let’s celebrate our victories for 2008 and may they serve as inspiration and motivation for the work to be done in 2009.
- Illegal Logging Ban Enacted. The United States became the first country in the world to prohibit the import and sale of illegally-sourced wood and wood [...]

Creating Child-Friendly Spaces

by Save The Children
One week after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake shook southwestern China,
Save the Children plans to set up child-friendly spaces and temporary classrooms for primary schools in one of the most devastated communities
in Deyang Prefecture, part of Sichuan Province.
More than 3 million children live in the earthquake zone. For them, the disaster has meant [...]