Sara Cameron... Inside stories  

Advocacy

Natural Enemies

A fast-paced novel of elephants and Kenya, Natural Enemies won a Turner Tomorrow Award and the Edward Abbey Award for Eco-Fiction.

Journeys

From a village revolution in Papua New Guinea to the struggles of women in isolated villages in Bihar, northern India; from schools for nomadic children in northern Sudan and working children in Bangladesh, to following the vaccine trail deep into rural Senegal...go to Journeys

Insights

Iraq: Before the war...and after

My minder, Khalid, asked if I wanted to see the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and led me to a blackened and gnarled olive tree..

 

Sudan: Crossing Cultures

I told Jasmina I wanted to eat right there with the men. “But we can’t!” She protested, “A man cannot share a tray of food with a woman!”

Features

Celebrating girls

We decided that we would celebrate the birth of my daughter. None of us had ever heard of or done such a thing for a girl before. We had only ever celebrated the birth of boys.

Photo Stories :

Turkana girls in School

Out of War

Courageous stories of children living in violence and their struggle to create the Children’s Movement for Peace in Colombia. Excerpts, reviews, and stories not included in the book.

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Bangladesh Colombia India Brazil Iraq Kenya Nepal Papua New Guinea Senegal Sudan Tanzania

Campaign strategies to stop violence, save lives, mobilize parliamentarians, engage religious leaders as advocates and fund raisers for child survival.

Brenda, age 14 “I have met people who have suffered like me who say they have recovered, yet when you look at their smile, you know it is just an expression they are wearing….I don't want a fake recovery. I want the real, full-on, complete happiness that I know some people have.”

Most of this work was conducted for UNICEF but the views expressed are my own and may not be shared by UNICEF

About Sara Cameron

Real lives   

“Cameron knows how to take the reader on an unexpected journey to an unforeseen destination”     Publishers Weekly

Out of War Turkana Girls