The wife of a state representative has been crusading in recent weeks in support of the United Nations Children's Fund's efforts to provide clean drinking water in developing countries. ...more

March 25, 2009

They wail and yell to show their distress: the youngest victims of eastern Congo's latest eruption of violence have no other way to say they're famished, sick and weary. ...more

November 2, 2008

Relief workers are still finding mountain villages destroyed in the earthquake in southwestern Pakistan that have yet to receive aid, the Red Cross said Saturday. ...more

November 2, 2008

With one hand, Yang Aiping held her squirming 4-month-old son amid the crowd in the maternity hospital. With the other, she dug through her purse for the near-empty bag of milk powder that she worried had sickened him. ...more

September 26, 2008

Myanmar needs more than food and shelter. Relief groups say the country needs human expertise for everything from purifying drinking water to mental health counseling - and right now, those experts can't get to the hard-hit delta. ...more

June 1, 2008

A newborn in Sierra Leone has the lowest chance in the world of surviving until age 5, and the prospects are almost as bad for children in Angola and Afghanistan, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday. ...more

January 23, 2008

Although it's a story about a Latin American orphan who was born HIV-positive, later sexually abused and pregnant at age 16, "Ana is a lot like many teenagers in the United States," Jenna Bush said Thursday. ...more

November 9, 2007

BRANDON - President Bush's daughter was in Brandon on Thursday to autograph copies of her first book, "Ana's Story." ...more

November 8, 2007

Thank you to the residents of Lake Haven Estates who contributed to my daughter's trick-or-treat for her UNICEF effort. We were able to raise almost $20. That may not seem like too much, however, when it is added to the approximately $4.5 million that will be raised across the country, it will save or improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of children all over the world. As little as $20 can immunize a child against diphtheria, measles, polio, tetanus, tuberculosis, and whooping cough. As little as $3 can provide a child with classroom supplies for a month. In this case a little bit goes a long way. ...more

October 30, 2007

Worldwide deaths for children younger than 5 dropped to an estimated 9.7 million last year, the lowest worldwide levels since record-keeping began in 1960, the United Nations Children's Fund announced Wednesday. ...more

September 13, 2007