Read public remarks by Save the Children staff on a variety of issues critical to the well-being of children around the world. Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina: Rebuilding Lives and Communities – Statement to the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (PDF) – Mark Shriver, Vice President and Managing Director of Save the Children's U.S. Programs presented Save the Children's perspective on the needs of the children affected by Hurricane Katrina and what Congress can do to help them. September 8, 2005 Women and Children in War and Conflict Women and Children in Africa's Brutal War Zones Need Protection – Statement by Christine Knudsen, Save the Children's children in war specialist, at a Washington DC press briefing prior to President Bush's trip to Africa (July 2, 2003) Protecting Women and Children from the Atrocities of War, – Speech by Save the Children President Charles MacCormack at the release of the State of the World's Mothers report What War Does to a Child, – Speech by Kim Phuc at the release of Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers report What You Can Do to Protect Mothers and Children from Violence and Exploitation during War, – Speech by Sally Field at the release of Save the Children’s State of the World's Mothers report Millennium Challenge Account How U.S. Charities View President Bush's New Development Assistance Account Proposal – Speaking on behalf of the nation's largest humanitarian relief and development agencies, Save the Children President Charles F. MacCormack urges Congress to support the Bush administration's pledge to increase by 50 percent funding for international programs that help children and their families survive and thrive through the Millennium Challenge Account; to ensure that these new funds do not come at the expense of other core development programs; and to consider this an opportunity to map out a U.S. foreign-assistance strategy that supplements the roles that the U.S. Agency for International Development and private, nongovernmental organizations like Save the Children can play in delivering these services. Here is his statement on the administration's proposed Millennium Challenge Account, made before the House International Relations Committee. March 6, 2003 Afghanistan Rebuilding Afghanistan's Health System for Mothers and Children – Save the Children Operations Director for Afghanistan/Pakistan, Bruce Rasmussen briefs Congress on the future needs of Afghanistan's health system, December 11, 2002. Maternal and Child Health in Afghanistan – Save the Children Director of Health David Oot Briefs Congress on Maternal and Child Health, March 28, 2002 The Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan – Testimony by Charles MacCormack and Andrew Wilder before the House International Relations Committee, November 1, 2001 U.S. Children in Crisis Children and Terrorism – Testimony by Catherine Milton before the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families, November 2, 2001 Food Security The Best Way to Fight Hunger – Invest in Mothers – Speech by Anuradha Harinarayan before the World Food Prize ceremony in Des Moines, Iowa, October 18, 2001 Maternal and Child Health Saving the Lives of Mothers and Newborns in Pakistan – Speech by Nabeela Ali in Washington DC, September 10, 2001 What Life is Like for Mothers in Myanmar – Speech by Cynthie Tin Oo at the Maternal and Child Health Forum in Seattle, June 19, 2001