Tag: children

WATCH: Football Fans Throw Toys For Children In Need

  How thoughtful is this?     Every Christmas, football fans throw thousands of toys onto the football pitch to be donated to children’s charities and disadvantaged families.   The Spanish football club Betis does this every December to bring a bit of joy into children’s lives by making sure every child gets one.   […]

Ariana Grande Sends Gifts To Children In Hospitals

What a wholesome gesture 🤩   The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital announced that the 29-year-old pop star sent gifts to children who are spending Christmas in the hospital 🎁     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by RMCH Charity (@rmchcharity) Since the terrorist attack on her Manchester Arena concert in 2017, […]

Malta Trust Fixing Old Laptops For Kids In Need

Got any abandoned laptops lying around? 💻   A recent survey found that over 11,000 pupils presently lack the means to keep up with contemporary digital learning, which is why NGO Malta Trust Foundation is requesting that people donate their used laptops and gadgets.   The Malta Trust Foundation is looking to collect used laptops, […]

Children Cinema Day Is Coming To Eden Cinemas This Saturday!

  Don’t miss out on the perfect Saturday out at Eden Cinemas tomorrow 🥰     Children Cinema Day is back at Eden Cinemas with more offers and things happening than ever. Keep scrolling for everything you should be looking forward to!       See you there!  

Women Calls For “Child-Free Flights”

Are child-free flights the way to go? 👀 After enduring a three-hour flight from hell, an American woman has urged airlines to provide child-free flights. Morgan Lee made the statement on TikTok following a particularly terrifying encounter with a child who undoubtedly didn’t like their travel @mooorganic The flight was 3 hours and I listened […]

IN PHOTOS: Artist Gives Temporary Tattoos To Kids At Hospital

  New Zealand artist Benjamin Lloyd posted on Facebook that if he got 50 likes, he would provide temporary tattoos to all the children at Auckland’s Starship Children’s Hospital.   But he didn’t get 50 likes… he got over 400,000 instead! And the number just keeps on rising.     True to his word, Lloyd […]

Policeman Calms Down Child With Autism At Hospital

  The Malta Police Force page on Facebook posted about a wholesome moment between a Maltese policeman and a child with autism!   They shared a message that was sent to them by a person that was in the room when the moment happened. Read the message below:     The message read that last […]

Children Between Ages 5 To 11 Start Receiving The COVID-19 Vaccine

  Health Minister Chris Fearne announced that children from the 5 to 11 age group have started receiving the vaccine from today.   After the consignment of vaccines arrived last Sunday, Minister Chris Fearne confirmed that the vaccines started being delivered on Monday so that the vaccination programme for this age group could begin on […]

Michael Bublé Speaks Out About His Son’s Five-Year Cancer Battle

  Singer Michael Bublé has opened up about the impact that his son’s battle with cancer has left on him over the past few years…     Bublé’s son Noah, now eight years old, was diagnosed with a rare type of liver cancer in 2016. Noah received chemotherapy and radiotherapy to treat his hepatoblastoma and […]

Children Walk Through Sewage Outflow To Get To School

  Children had to walk through faeces to get into their St Paul’s Bay primary school on Thursday morning as sewage flowed along the road past it into the sea…     Though the local council said the responsible authorities had been contacted right away, a frustrated parent described how his two daughters had to […]

Here’s How You Can Register For The GridKids

  The Grid is back and better than ever – but this time, they’re even catering for kids!     So, if you have kids that love to run around and get messy, then they’ll love the GridKids’ obstacle course… A day packed with fun and excitement, where children are given the chance to challenge […]

Maltese children are once again ‘the fattest in Europe’

Kids in the Malta have once again been ranked as the fattest in Europe. Malta has the highest rate of child obesity in the European Union, according to alarming new research. Almost 25 per cent of  15-year-olds are now overweight or obese in Malta, a higher proportion than in all other EU countries and a […]

Malta’s arts festival for children attracts record crowds

Malta’s international arts festival for children has been hailed a success. The ninth edition of ZiguZajg attracted a record 21,000 visitors during its 10 day run. More than 8,500 of them were pupils from 45 different schools across Malta and Gozo. Festival director Daniel Azzopardi said he was delighted by the positive reaction to the […]

Children as young as two ‘are using social media’

Children as young as two are using social media, according to new research. The study has led to fresh fears that more young people are becoming addicted to sites such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. More than 60% of teachers said that they were worried about under-fives using social networks, not only because of exposure […]

Former President of Malta gets a new job in Brussels

Malta‘s former president has taken up a new job in Brussels. Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca has been elected president of Eurochild, a children’s rights network working in 34 countries. She said: ‘During my time both as Minister for the Family and as President of Malta, child participation was always at the centre of my endeavours. ‘I’d […]

Facebook ‘likes’ could be blocked for children

Social media platforms such as Facebook and Snapchat could turn off their ‘like’ function for children in a bid to keep young people safe online. New guidelines have been suggested to protect youngsters on the internet. But while some have praised it as a step to avoid ‘tragic’ consequences, the draft code has not been […]