http://www.savethechildren.org.au/australia/ Save the Children Australia News en-gb stephen.lynch@savethechildren.org.au stephen.lynch@savethechildren.org.au Save the Children Australia, http://www.savethechildren.org.au/australia/ http://www.savethechildren.net/australia/news/stories/2008-09-09.html Save the Children and South Australian UN Global Peace Schools along with students invited from other Adelaide schools will be celebrating the UN International Day of Peace again this year at Thebarton Senior College. Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.savethechildren.net/australia/news/stories/2008-08-12.html Star-studded cast for Arts Centre celebration concert HE has sung and danced his way across Australia in the multi-million dollar musicals The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Anything Goes and Me and My Girl. On stage and television, hes worked in every genre from Shakespeare to soap. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.savethechildren.net/australia/news/stories/2008-08-05.html Burmese children and their families are still in need of international assistance to help rebuild their lives, three months after Cyclone Nargis devastated the country. Save the Children, the biggest international aid agency responding in Burma, has already reached over half a million people, including 225,000 children, but says that much more needs to be done. The international aid agency said that children are at risk of going hungry as parents struggle to make a living to feed their families. Tue, 5 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.savethechildren.net/australia/news/stories/2008-07-10.html Save the Children is delighted with the support it has received from the Womans Day website for its new online book, which tells the story of little-known Save the Children founder Eglantyne Jebb. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.savethechildren.net/australia/news/stories/2008-07-08.html World leaders assembled at the G8 in Japan should change their tactics when dealing with the increased number of natural disasters linked to climate change. Around 175 million children are likely to be affected by the increase in the number and severity of disasters that climate change will bring. Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.savethechildren.net/australia/news/stories/2008-07-07.html Academy Award-winning actor and director Ben Affleck spent some time this past May visiting with former child soldiers who are part of a Save the Children program in Goma, a town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This region has seen some of the worst fighting in the country over the last 15 years. The visit was part of a larger trip the actor made to bring attention to the countrys humanitarian crisis. Children are the most vulnerable in any conflict, and the effects of this war on Congolese children are profound. Many children were recruited into the armed militia, or separated from their families when they fled the fighting. Many girls have been raped and mutilated - a deliberate tactic of the warring groups. Mon, 7 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100