Child's eye
Produced in association with Save the Children, The Guardian hears the testimonies of children at the sharp end of war, natural disasters and poverty all over the world
Child's eye: 'I’m still working hard to change the future'
Gulnaz is 11 years old and had her home washed away when flash floods swept down Pakistan's Swat Valley in August. She and her family of six brothers and three sisters now live in a tent camp
Child's eye: 'When I see her things it makes me cry'
Binta's daughter Khadijatu was one year and four months old when she died of suspected malaria in Kroo Bay, Sierra Leone – a country where one in four children dies from preventable diseases before their fifth birthday
Child's eye: 'The thing that makes me sad is the lack of food'
Djamila grows sorghum, millet and beans with her mother in Niger. This year their harvest was poor because of low rainfall, which forced them to beg for food in the city
Sudan's child soldier
Deng, a 15-year-old from Southern Sudan, recounts being forced into slavery and subsequently joining the army
Child's eye: 'My brothers think about weapons, not toys'
Two young Palestinian girls - 15-year-old Reem and 10-year-old Ameera – describe their ongoing fears in the aftermath of last year's bombing of Gaza by Israel
Child's eye: Haiti's humanitarian aftershock
As the aid effort continues in Port-au-Prince, Andrise, a nine-year-old Haitian, describes family life since the disaster
Child's eye: One year on with the children of Gaza
A year ago today, Save the Children met a Palestinian boy named Mohammed. He was living in a shelter school after his house was damaged by the Israeli shelling of Gaza. A year later he describes why his family have moved back to their ruined house and how they still live in fear of further attacks.
I was Mohammed
Mohammed loved going to school and would come back home every day singing the songs he'd learned. He died of Malaria at the age of four
I was Chunilal
Save the Children presents Chunilal's story from India. He was the youngest child and was looked after by his elder siblings. He died from diarrhoea, aged four
I was Savita
Save the Children present the story of Savita from Rajasthan, India who died of diarrhoea aged two
Alfred, Sierra Leone
Save the Children presents the story of Alfred who loved watching Nigerian films and playing football with his friends in Kroo Bay, a shanty town slum in Freetown. He died of Malaria, aged four years and two months in August of this year
Child's eye: 'I've not gone back home since he died'
Save The Children presents the story of Philip, who died of malaria at 14 months old
Kenya's drought crisis: Starving to death
Abdullahi is 14. He desperately struggles to chip away the rock of a well in a race against time to irrigate some of his small-scale farm. As he does this, the children of his village die around him
Child's Eye: Congo's children, back from the dead
Ten-year-old Marie was separated from her family in their flight from the violence last October. Her mother thought she had been killed. Save the Children found Marie, placed her with a foster family in Goma and spent three months tracing her mother
Child's eye: Afghanistan's child workers
Zarghoona is one of several thousand children in Afghanistan, some as young as five, who work to support their families
Afghanistan election: If I were president
Young people in Mazar-i-Sharif, in the northern Balkh province, tell Save the Children's Stuart Bamforth how they would change their country if they were president
Child's eye: Afghanistan's water boy
Issa Khan is a working street child. He sells cups of water on the streets of Mazar-i-Sharif, and is the bread winner in the family, after his father was shot while sleeping on the roof at night. This is his story
Child's eye: Afghanistan: Collateral damage
Grana, 12, is the sole survivor of a coalition bombing in southern Helmand province that took her arm and her leg, and killed nine members of her family
Child's Eye: Sierra Leone's slum children
Kroo Bay is a slum shantytown built on a rubbish dump and fetid swamp in Freetown. One in four children here will die before their fifth birthday
India's invisible poor: Child trafficking
Tens of thousands of children in India are trafficked every year. Poor families are most vulnerable after the floods when families become separated. With the rainy season about to begin, what do the elections mean for these children at risk
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