Keeping Children Safe During COVID-19

by Hari Kitching, AWC London 

CHILDREN AT RISK hosted a virtual roundtable with experts to discuss child-safeguarding under COVID-19 conditions, what policies and practices would further protect children, what we can learn from past disasters and public emergencies and how they affect children, and what you can do to keep children safer.

Watch the recording of the conversation.

 
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Compensate Travel Carbon Emissions by Planting Trees

by Anne van Oorschot, AWC The Hague

The first contact I had with the concept of planting trees to compensate the emissions produced by air travel was at the first FAWCO Conferencetree 576847 960 720 I attended in Stockholm in 2003. Environment Committee Chair Valerie Garforth, had a chart with distances from various cities to Stockholm and the number of trees one needed to...

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FAWCO’s Target Project Working to Achieve UN SDGs

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about COVID-19

NOTE: SARS-CoV-2 is the virus and COVID-19 is the disease caused by it.

Q. Does SARS-CoV-2 just infect the respiratory tract and lungs, like influenza?

A. Patients in China were initially presenting with an unusual pneumonia (characterized by a ground glass appearance on CAT scans) so it was initially thought to be a purely respiratory illness. Now it is known that...

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Resources for Students and Parents Learning and Teaching from Home, Part 2 of 6: Science & Crafts

by Adrianne George, AWC Gothenburg, AWC Malmö, AWC Stockholm

Screen Shot 2020 04 25 at 11.29.11 AMRemember the days when you might have thought homeschooling was a concept only hippies or recluses could embrace? When you thought, “no way would I keep my kids home all day”? Does it seem like a long time ago that you thought, “I’m no educator, I’m just a parent”? For many...

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