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This second major earthquake came less than two weeks after a deadly 7.8 magnitude quake devastated the country, killing over 8,000 people.

The latest quake has triggered more landslides, further isolating rural communities desperately in need of emergency aid. The coming monsoon will make the job of getting aid to remote communities by road near impossible. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Asia estimates that as many as 315,000 people already live in communities inaccessible by road, and with coming rains this figure is likely to rise.

One month on from the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April, aid agencies including ChildFund are working hard with local authorities to help children and families across the country who’ve lost homes, schools and loved ones.

Children who came through the Kelekula Interim Care Center in Monrovia, Liberia, welcome President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who came to celebrate the end of the Ebola outbreak throughout the country.

Liberia is the first of the three hardest-hit West African countries to be declared free of Ebola, 42 days after the last confirmed case.

Since March 2014, the Ebola outbreak has claimed more than 4,700 lives in Liberia and caused more than 11,000 deaths in West Africa overall. Neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone continue to see infections, although at a much lower rate than before. In Liberia, the last confirmed Ebola death was March 27, and there have been no new cases since April 23.

FLOOD EMERGENCY: Children and families in Myanmar have lost their homes and belongings to severe floods.

Nearly one million people have been affected by widespread flooding across Myanmar. According to the government, more than 100 people have been killed and over 1.2 million acres of rice fields have been flooded or completely destroyed.

Flooding from the recent Cyclone Komen has claimed 180 lives and displaced about 1.2 million people in West Bengal, India, including communities where ChildFund India works.

But there is some positive news: The rain has stopped and the floodwaters are receding, according to reports from our national office in India.

There has been no loss of life among enrolled and sponsored children or their family members in West Bengal, a state in eastern India between the Himalayan Mountains and the Bay of Bengal.

On Monday night RTE Nationwide broadcast a special programme on a recent visit to Ethiopia by camogie stars Aoife Murray and Mags D’Arcy

Education is critical to the long-term development of children.

Far from the spotlight of the media and the world’s attention, a humanitarian crisis is playing out in the small, landlocked nation of the Central African Republic (CAR). A savage civil war has forced tens of thousands of people to seek safety in surrounding countries, and as of 31 August 2016, an estimated 385,750 people are internally displaced. Almost half of the displaced are children. The Commission des Mouvements de Populations^[1] estimates that 61% of the IDPs are living with host families, and 39% are staying in open spaces and camp-like settings such as schools, churches, and mosques.