Sharing Web Resources/Save the Children

The organization I chose to look at is Save the Children (http://www.savethechildren.org/). The focus of Save the Children is to invest in childhood-everyday, in times of crisis and for our future. In the United States and around the world, this organization gives children a healthy start, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. By transforming children's lives now, they are changing the course of the their future and theirs (Save the Children, 2014).

One of the issues I found on this site that Save the Children has been working hard to raise funds for is the Ebola Outbreak.The organization states that an estimated 10.3 million children and adolescents  under the age of 18 are directly or indirectly affected of this outbreak. Children and their families are being exposed to extreme distress due to loss, family separation, isolation, and the overall disruption of society. Children are being frighten with confinements to homes, seeing health workers dressed in protective gear, and witnessing the suffering of family members. There are at least 3,700 children who have lost one or more of their parents to Ebola since the start of the crisis. The organization also looks at how school closures are impacting children's education as they lose out on the critical months of learning, and how once children are out of school, that many never return, and instead become at risk of child labor or other exploitative situation. Even though the outbreak has shown to be declining, there are still some areas that are still dealing with the outbreak. Save the Children has been working around the clock to help stop the spread of the virus and check its catastrophic impact on children and their families. The organization continues to identify, triage, test, and refer patients to beds in Ebola Treatment Units in those hard to reach remote communities in the affect countries. With other organizations and individual donors, the organization continues to protect thousands of vulnerable children, and have saved countless lives (Save the Children, 2014).

I found reading about the Ebola Outbreak issue was quite interesting, and learned about how this issue has impacted children. Children are losing family members which can cause a lot of stress on children. I also found it interesting on how the schools have been closed since the outbreak started, thus children are missing out on valuable education time, thus hindering their development. The organization has been doing a tremendous job to help the children and families that have been affected by this outbreak, and hope to the children to reach their full potential development.

Reference:

Save the Child (15 Dec, 2014). Ebola Response in West Africa. Retrieved from http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.9208421/k.244F/Ebola_Response_in_West_Africa.htm