Month: March 2016

A girl watches a model rocket take off from the Goddard Visitor Center. Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center / Talya Lerner

Learning Parents

How NASA Studies Clouds from Space

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will host this month’s Sunday Experiment on March 20, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT. This afternoon of free activities gives elementary school-aged children and other family members a…

March 16, 2016 RMN Kids

Imrana (8) and Vandana (8) showing their drawings outside RMN Foundation School in New Delhi

Fun Stuff Learning

Meet the Creative Kids of RMN Foundation School

Vandana and Imrana – two young students of the ‘Friends of the Future’ school being run by the RMN Foundation in New Delhi – have highlighted the importance of physical activity through their drawings. They have drawn their imagination on…

March 14, 2016 RMN Kids

One-year-old Godfrey was treated for acute malnutrition in the UNICEF supported Al-Shabbah Children’s Hospital, in Juba, South Sudan.

Charity Parents

South Sudan: Lack of Funds Puts Lives of Children at Risk

Humanitarian funding for South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, has collapsed, UNICEF said Friday, putting the lives of tens of thousands of children at risk. Despite an urgent request by UNICEF in South Sudan for US$155 million in 2016 to…

March 12, 2016 RMN Kids

Sultan, a student of RMN Foundation School

Learning Teachers

Look, What Sultan Says with His Drawings

Sultan is a student of the ‘Friends of the Future’ school being run by the RMN Foundation in New Delhi. Of late, he decided to express some of his observations – related to increasing pollution and child labor – through…

March 9, 2016 RMN Kids

Fun Stuff Slides

White House Announces Easter Egg Roll Talent Line-up

The White House announced the talent line-up for this year’s Easter Egg Roll, which will take place on Monday, March 28th, on the South Lawn of the White House. To honor the final Easter Egg Roll of the Obama Administration,…

March 6, 2016 RMN Kids

Learning Teachers

Twice as Many Girls as Boys Will Never Start School: UNESCO

Almost 16 million girls between the ages six and 11 will never get the chance to learn to read or write in primary school compared to about eight million boys if current trends continue, according to a new report from…

March 3, 2016 RMN Kids

Fun Stuff Learning

Children’s Book: Dear Pope Francis Released

Last week in Rome, Pope Francis held a private audience for twelve of the children whose letters and drawings appear in his first and only children’s book, Dear Pope Francis: The Pope Answers Letters from Children Around the World (Loyola…

March 2, 2016 RMN Kids