http://www.twotalk.org Insight, thoughts and stories from SOS Children staff and supporters around the world daily 1 2009-06-12T06:27:08Z http://www.twotalk.org/archive/judy-and-her-sponsored-child-in-india-caroline-from-sos-childrens-village-lilongwe-in-malawi I have visited India many times as a tourist and find myself totally bewitched by the spectacle of the culture and customs of this magical land. No publisher HannahEdwards 2012-05-14T11:26:58Z 2012-05-14T11:26:58Z 2012-05-14T11:27:02Z News Item http://www.twotalk.org/archive/children-in-school-in-somalia-a-grandfather-feeding-his-grandchild-in-china ‘Somaliland still has a long way to go to recover from the civil war, but there are good things happening...’ No publisher HannahEdwards child sponsorship 2012-04-27T13:40:00Z 2012-04-27T13:40:00Z 2012-04-27T13:44:30Z News Item http://www.twotalk.org/archive/children-living-with-sos-children-in-pakistan-a-child-in-school-in-malawi Making it in time for your 8 a.m. breakfast power meeting, preparing for the evening jog, or trying to avoid that tempting piece of chocolate; whatever your challenge, the reality of life is that we are all faced with them. No publisher HannahEdwards child sponsorship 2012-04-12T09:41:05Z 2012-04-12T09:41:05Z 2012-04-12T09:41:09Z News Item http://www.twotalk.org/archive/mark-with-his-sponsored-child-amir-and-family-a-child-from-sos-school-monrovia-liberia Several years ago for a family Christmas present I decided to sponsor a child through SOS Children. I chose SOS Children because I wanted to support a charity that allows a child to grow up in an environment that they are familiar with. No publisher HannahEdwards child sponsorship 2012-03-29T13:11:45Z 2012-03-29T13:11:45Z 2012-03-29T13:11:52Z News Item http://www.twotalk.org/archive/lauren-with-children-from-sos-childrens-village-bakoteh-a-child-filming-for-our-africa I visit Gambia every Christmas for a couple of weeks and have done for the past four years. I love meeting the locals and getting to know them as people. No publisher HannahEdwards child sponsorship 2012-03-15T10:10:00Z 2012-03-15T10:10:00Z 2012-03-15T10:09:46Z News Item http://www.twotalk.org/archive/festus-from-windhoek-namibia-mother-and-child-from-malawi We all live in the same world, but it almost seems difficult to believe when you see the life of an inner city child in London UK in contrast to their counterpart in One Nation – a shanty town in Windhoek, Namibia. No publisher HannahEdwards family strengthening 2012-03-01T09:24:32Z 2012-03-01T09:24:32Z 2012-03-01T09:24:36Z News Item http://www.twotalk.org/archive/a-boy-from-india-following-the-2004-tsunami-children-receiving-support-from-the-child-development-centre-in-malawi This month the USA has revised regulations over USAid. The changes will allow firms in developing countries to apply as contractors/suppliers for the aid, except in the areas of food, motor vehicles and US-patented pharmaceuticals. These will still be sourced from American companies, while other services or goods can now be ‘bought locally’. No publisher HannahEdwards child sponsorship 2012-02-16T14:05:42Z 2012-02-16T14:05:42Z 2012-02-16T14:05:46Z News Item http://www.twotalk.org/archive/a-family-supported-by-an-sos-medical-centre-in-malawi-children-in-school-in-zambia Martin Brooke, from Cornwall UK, is an NHS associate specialist in paediatrics. He has generously given up his month-long holiday to travel to Malawi and volunteer his time and valuable skills at the SOS Hospital in Blantyre, where 21,000 people are treated every year. No publisher HannahEdwards child sponsorship 2012-02-02T11:06:23Z 2012-02-02T11:06:23Z 2012-02-02T11:06:28Z News Item http://www.twotalk.org/archive/a-woman-helped-by-sos-children-in-gode-ethiopia-brother-and-sister-from-sos-childrens-village-tema-ghana Ann Speak is a Canadian studying in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Recently, she visited the SOS Children’s Village in Gode, Ethiopia, where SOS Children is conducting relief efforts in the current famine which has hit East Africa. No publisher HannahEdwards 2012-01-19T11:54:06Z 2012-01-19T11:54:06Z 2012-01-19T11:54:09Z News Item http://www.twotalk.org/archive/sos-children-supporter-anthony-fitzgerald-children-from-mali-performing-cultural-dance The dedication of our supporters never ceases to amaze me. In 2011 our corporate partners took on some impressive, skilful and just plain crazy challenges to support some extremely worthy causes. No publisher HannahEdwards fundraising 2012-01-06T09:14:43Z 2012-01-06T09:14:43Z 2012-01-06T09:14:46Z News Item http://www.twotalk.org/archive/olga-and-her-family-our-africa-filming-in-ghana I find myself talking a lot about SOS Children’s Family Strengthening Programmes (FSP’s). A bit of a mouthful, the term actually describes a relatively simple strategy: to prevent family break-up. No publisher HannahEdwards child sponsorship 2011-12-22T10:40:00Z 2011-12-22T10:40:00Z 2011-12-22T10:39:54Z News Item http://www.twotalk.org/archive/what-a-difference-a-night-makes In December 2009 I had a call from Beatriz Barclay, a member of The London based Anglo Peruvian Society. No publisher HannahEdwards child sponsorship 2011-12-08T11:15:00Z 2011-12-08T11:15:00Z 2011-12-08T11:28:06Z News Item http://www.twotalk.org/archive/investing-in-lives I became interested in the work of SOS Children in Colombia whilst studying Latin American history and politics for my Modern Languages degree. No publisher HannahEdwards child sponsorship 2011-11-24T12:35:52Z 2011-11-24T12:35:52Z 2011-11-24T12:35:55Z News Item http://www.twotalk.org/archive/2018an-sos-child-with-attitude2019-2013-visiting-my-sponsored-child We met when I was at the Children’s Village making videos for ‘Our Africa.’ I won’t tell you her name, or the SOS Children’s Village where she lives, because identifying her somehow seems like intruding into her life and branding her as ‘in need’. No publisher HannahEdwards child sponsorship 2011-11-09T11:40:00Z 2011-11-09T11:40:00Z 2011-11-21T14:16:06Z News Item http://www.twotalk.org/archive/children-from-bucharest-walking-to-school A new update for Twotalk No publisher willo child sponsorship 2011-07-28T11:20:00Z 2011-07-28T11:20:00Z 2011-07-28T14:21:36Z News Item