100 kids go blind in Philippines every week
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Every week around 100 Filipino children go blind, mostly due to preventable diseases, the health department has said.
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VILLA NUEVA, Guatemala  - On New Year's day, six-year-old Evelyn Isidro went down the block in a shanty town near Guatemala City to buy a diaper for her baby brother. She never made it home.
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At least 60 children are believed to have died in a measles outbreak in north-eastern Nigeria.
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MANILA: Over 900 people were dead or missing after a storm triggered landslides and floods in the Philippines this week, rescuers announced on Thursday as a new and even more powerful typhoon approached the main island of Luzon.
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Children returned to school in this rural Indonesian district Monday, some in fresh uniforms, others raggedy with bare, muddy feet. Among them was 15-year-old Syarita, who wants to be a doctor and thinks school will help her forget her terrifying run to the top of a hill while five family members died in the relentless waves below.
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A dozen blind students from across the United States are at a summer camp this week working on a project most don't associate with the visually impaired &#151; launching a NASA rocket.
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MANILA: About 20 Filipinos were found alive in the rubble of a collapsed building yesterday, 10 days after a fierce storm and landslides devastated several eastern and northern provinces, a radio station reported.
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Children will take part in five hours of sport each week as part of a new Â£100m national campaign.
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Isle Filipinos are mobilizing to help the northern and eastern regions of the Philippines, where more than 1,000 people are dead or missing after four deadly storms in the last two weeks.
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MANILA: Floods and landslides caused by heavy rains killed at least 26 people in the northern and central Philippines, disaster officials said on Tuesday, a week after storms left about 160 dead or missing.
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During the past two weeks heavy storms and typhoons have rocked the Philippines killing and injuring people. As a result at least 640 dead and about 400 people missing in the northern Philippines.
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Lack of access to clean drinking water and proper sanitation kills 1.5 million children every year, Unicef says.
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Today, even a world grown weary of shocking statistics and bad news will receive a number that jolts: half of all children in the world are deprived of the essentials for survival and are suffering a brutal childhood as a result.
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More than 800 of them have lost an arm, a leg, fingers or toes. More than 100 are blind. Dozens need tubes and machines to keep them alive. Hundreds are disfigured by burns, and thousands have brain injuries and mangled minds.
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A report by a kids&#39; group says more than half of the children in the world are suffering because of the effects of war, poverty and the HIV virus.
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REAL, Philippines : Rescuers were desperately searching for survivors Tuesday after floods and landslides unleashed by a tropical storm in the Philippines killed more than 300 people and left at least 150 others missing, many buried alive under tonnes of
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The number of city kids who have died from abuse or neglect this year is up an alarming 57%, officials said yesterday. Some 58 kids died from suspected maltreatment during the first nine months