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Special Reception Hosted by South African Civil Society: A Common Thread Reaching Every Woman and Every Newborn.

The abduction of over 250 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno, North West Nigeria in mid-April has sparked outrage from the global public and cast a spotlight on the situation in the north of the country. 

It has been 38 years since the Soweto uprising where protesting students were shot dead by Apartheid police for protesting Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools.

An Advocacy and Campaigning Meeting on Maternal Newborn and Child Health for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) took place in South Africa on 13th May 2014, hosted by Save the Children South Africa.

Save the Children remains appalled by the abduction of the schoolgirls in Nigeria. As a children's rights organisation we believe every boy or girl has the right to be educated and to be protected against all forms of violence.

This Mother’s Day spare a thought for the mothers of the 20 babies that die every day in South Africa on the day they are born.

Let your community know just how valuable this person is. Pitch a story about one or more local health workers, or submit a letter to the editor to local media outlets.