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Free Ebook for Parents on Reading with Your Baby and Child | Barnardos Ireland
May 17, 2013
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Free Ebook for Parents on Reading with Your Baby and Child | Barnardos Ireland.
Are you a parent of a baby, toddler or young child? Would you like to find out how you can help with your child’s reading skills and educational development? Our free ‘Your Child’s Literacy Skills’ ebook has easy to understand tips on fun ways you can enjoy books and language with your child.
IRIN Africa | Children bear brunt of CAR crisis
April 29, 2013
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BANGUI, 25 April 2013 (IRIN) – Sporadic armed clashes, looting of orphanages, recruitment into armed groups, and widespread school closures have made life perilous for children in the Central African Republic (CAR) in the wake of a 24 March rebel coup by the Séléka alliance.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), some 2.3 million children are directly affected by the breakdown of law and order and the interruption of basic services.
On 12 April, 14 children were wounded in the capital, Bangui, when a rocket-propelled grenade fell on a playing field. Two days later, a rocket landed on a church, killing seven people, including three infants, and wounding 11 children – three of whom had to have their legs amputated.
“It’s scandalous that children are being caught in crossfire as they go about their daily lives, playing football or going to church,” said Souleymane Diabaté, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) representative in CAR…
BBC News – UK Peace Index highlights rate of fall in violent crime
April 25, 2013
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BBC News – UK Peace Index highlights rate of fall in violent crime.
For its inaugural index, the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), which defined peace as “the absence of violence or fear of violence”, used Home Office data on crime, such as public disorder offences and weapons crime, and police officer numbers.
It found the violent crime rate was down by about one quarter – from 1,255 per 100,000 people in 2003, to 933 in 2012. This was a more rapid fall than the average decrease across western Europe for that period – although not more rapid than all other European countries, as was stated in earlier reports on the BBC News website.
These reductions came despite a 6% drop in the number of police officers per 100,000 people, it said…
4th Annual Gambian Youth Caravan
March 29, 2013
4th Annual Gambian Youth Caravan, a set by Tostan International on Flickr.
Interesting Facts about His Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI :: Catholic News Agency
February 27, 2013
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Interesting Facts about His Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI :: Catholic News Agency.
…Pope Benedict XVI has a pilot’s license for the papal helicopter and likes to fly from the Vatican to the papal summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, but the pope does not have a driver’s license as he never learned to drive a car…
Peter "Just Loves Flying" 
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