Stories tagged with: ghr

• Hope in a backpack for hungry kids

  by K. Faith Morgan, posted Friday, October 02, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  NAMB photo by Nick Layman

  MORIARTY, N.M. (BP) -- For most school-age children, weekends are a highly anticipated time of fun and freedom. But for others, there's another expectation -- hunger. These kids live in a survival cycle, taking multiple trips through the cafeteria line at school -- stocking up at lunch on Friday and catching up at breakfast on Monday -- to compensate for the food that is in short supply (or even unavailable) on the days in between. Read More

• The Syrian refugee crisis & you

  by Travis Wussow, posted Friday, September 11, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Jennifer Freedman

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Turkey's shores received the body of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi minutes after a small boat capsized while carrying him into the Mediterranean in early September with his father, mother and 4-year-old brother and other refugees from the Syrian Civil War.

  They left with hope of finding safety and security. Instead, Aylan and his brother became two of more than 11,000 children -- at least 230 of whom were also 3 years old -- killed as a result of the war, as recounted in a Washington Post report on Sept. 5. Read More