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2011 natural disasters cost $366 billion

Monday, 30 January 2012 16:35

New figures show that natural disasters including the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan last March caused damage estimated at a record $366 billion in 2011.

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Save the Children's Emergency Foundation Course

Monday, 30 January 2012 16:07

A guest post by Rachel Kurzyp a participant in Save the Children's Emergency Foundation Course

The Emergency Course is held yearly for Save the Children's employees. The course allows participants to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to operate safely and effectively in a breaking emergency.

Life in Sendonia

A week in Sendonia felt like a year. A year of learning, experiences and emotions compacted, and it wasn't till the end when I looked back on the first day that I realised how far we had all come.

Some thirty individuals across Asia-Pacific, from various NGO's, attended the Emergency Foundation Course. Headed for regional Victoria, we were all bundled onto a bus, handed our briefing and left wondering if this really was like being on an emergency deployment.

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Fun times in the sunshine

Wednesday, 25 January 2012 14:57

A guest post by Rachel Kurzyp

Today I made the most of summer. I played connect four, twister, hola hoops, splashed around in the water and built safari animals out of play dough. After all the sun and giggles I'm a little warn out. I joined around twenty children and their families at one of Save the Children's school holiday events in Collingwood. Despite the heat, children were making most of the activities. Mothers rested babies on their hips as they twisted the skipping rope for older children, young girls used feathers, crayons and pipe cleaners to make paper versions of themselves and those that got too hot played in the water, dunking toy ducks.

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Cheer on The Celebrity Apprentice Marion Grasby

Wednesday, 25 January 2012 13:46
Favourite of hit TV show MasterChef Australia, Marion has nominated us as her charity of choice for Channel Nine's upcoming show The Celebrity Apprentice. Lets show her support. Find out more.