Kathryn Reid

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World Refugee Day: Spotlight on Syria
Kathryn Reid Jun 17, 2021 5:33:29 PM

The 10th anniversary of the Syrian civil war slipped by unnoticed for many, falling just four days after the one-year mark of the WHO’s declaration of...

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Innovative solutions improve refugees' lives
Kathryn Reid Jun 19, 2019 3:30:20 PM

Like children everywhere, Rohingya children in a Bangladesh refugee camp find joy playing together. Of the nearly 1 million refugees living in the...

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Farmers save their land by re-growing trees
Kathryn Reid Apr 19, 2019 9:30:00 AM

Salamatou Ilia, 65, stands next to one of 120 trees she cultivates. She plants millet, sorghum, and cowpeas between the trees. Her harvest is much bigger...

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World Vision helps end harmful traditions
Kathryn Reid Feb 5, 2019 1:16:42 PM

After 20 years, a circumciser in Kenya laid down her tools—a knife and a razor blade. World Vision helps girls, boys, and communities to stand against...

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To end child trafficking, tackle violence
Kathryn Reid Jul 29, 2018 11:08:58 PM

Every year on July 30, World Vision observes World Day Against Trafficking in Personsby highlighting the importance ofprotecting vulnerable children...

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World Refugee Day: Bringing hope to the world's hardest places
Kathryn Reid Jun 14, 2018 5:23:38 PM

Around the world, 65.6 million people — 1 of every 113 people on the planet — have been forcibly displaced, either in their own country or across...

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Ending preventable suffering and death for moms and their babies
Kathryn Reid Apr 3, 2018 11:41:24 PM

Nearly half of all child deaths under the age of five occur within the first month of their lives*, despite marked improvement over the past 30 years....

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Rwanda: Finishing the job
Kathryn Reid Mar 19, 2018 7:00:52 PM

The global water crisis and the lack of clean water oppresses people in extreme poverty, especially women and girls, who walk an average of 6 kilometers...

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International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation: Changing the trajectory of girls' lives in Kenya
Kathryn Reid Feb 2, 2018 2:32:11 PM

More than 200 million women and girls around the world are living with the results of the dangerous practice of female genital mutilation (FGM/C), also...

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