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For the past few weeks, child trafficking has been making headlines as the Department of Home Affairs presents the rationale for its new regulations for children traveling to or from South Africa.

Would you believe us if we told you that by 2030 no child in South Africa would be living in extreme poor conditions?

As the scale of the devastation wrought by Saturday's deadly earthquake in Nepal continues to emerge, nearly 5,000 schools are estimated to have been completely destroyed – which is expected to have a devastating long-term impact on the lives of children, says Save the Children.

One week on from the deadly earthquake in Nepal, Save the Children warns that nearly a third of a million children face months sleeping out in harsh conditions after their houses were destroyed.

Inputs by Save the Children South Africa to the State of the Nation Address

Desmond Tutu, Shakira, Ben Affleck, Aamir Khan, Bono, Mary Robinson and five Nobel Peace Prize winners have added their names to an open letter to World Leaders to mark the launch of action/2015.
 

On 12 January 2010 Haiti was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that affected an estimated three million people. 

Three years ago the seed for running the 2350km along the Freedom Trail in South Africa was planted and since then the plotting and planning has grown into what you know today as the Freedom Runners.