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Tamariki Get Opportunity To Speak Out On Ka Ora, Ka Ako, Healthy School Lunches Programme
Friday, 22 March 2024, 5:19 pm | Save The Children
Child rights organisation Save the Children is on a mission to ensure children’s voices are heard on any proposed changes to Ka Ora, Ka Ako, Healthy School Lunches programme. As part of its ‘Children’s Voices’ project, the child rights organisation ... More >>
NGOs Call For Emergency Visas For Palestinians With NZ Family Links Trapped In Gaza
Thursday, 21 March 2024, 9:25 am | Save The Children
Save the Children has joined more than 30 other NGOs, community organisations, and church groups calling on the New Zealand Government to grant emergency humanitarian visas to Palestinians in Gaza who have family members in Aotearoa New Zealand. The ... More >>
"I Am Seeing My Son Dying And I Can’t Do Anything": Children And Families In Northern Gaza Just Weeks Away From Famine
Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 10:34 am | Save The Children
Children and families in northern Gaza are just weeks away from famine, according to data released today by leading experts on food insecurity and malnutrition, with some of the thresholds needed to declare a famine already exceeded. New data from ... More >>
A Tale of Two El Niños: Malawi underwater while neighbour Zambia dries out
Sunday, 17 March 2024, 2:38 pm | Save The Children
Two neighbouring southern Africa nations are battling completely opposite weather disasters this month, with Zambia experiencing its worst drought in two decades while Malawi battles floods that have displaced thousands, Save the Children said. Rains ... More >>
Save The Children To Present Oral Submissions On Victims Of Sexual Violence And Ram Raids Offending Bills
Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 9:36 am | Save The Children
Save the Children New Zealand Advocacy Director Jacqui Southey and Chief Executive Heidi Coetzee will today present two oral submissions to the Select Committee. 11am - Victims of Sexual Violence (Strengthening Legal Protections) Legislation Bill 11.10am ... More >>
Alternative Aid Delivery In Gaza: Children Do Not Have Time To Wait - Save The Children
Sunday, 10 March 2024, 1:47 pm | Save The Children
Children in Gaza dying from starvation and disease cannot wait for the time it may take to build a temporary port off the Strip, or for the hope that aid dropped out of planes will reach them, Save the Children said. While welcoming efforts to provide ... More >>
International Women’s Day: New Initiative To Empower Girls To Become Unstoppable Women
Friday, 8 March 2024, 3:41 pm | Save The Children
A new ‘Girls Unstoppable’ programme has its sights on freeing up girls in China, Indonesia, Mexico and Vietnam from chores and care work and getting them into girls clubs to meet, play, and gain confidence to campaign about issues important to them. ... More >>
Nepal: Girl Cricketers Who Successfully Campaigned To End Child Marriage Play In First Provincial Tournament
Friday, 8 March 2024, 10:48 am | Save The Children
Teams of girl cricketers who joined forces on and off the pitch to campaign against child marriage are taking part in their first provincial ‘all-girls’ tournament after their successful campaign to end child marriage in two municipalities. The ... More >>
Ka Ora, Ka Ako Must Stay: Save The Children Calls For Continued Investment In The Healthy School Lunches Programme
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 3:01 pm | Save The Children
Save the Children New Zealand is calling for continued investment in the Government’s Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunches programme in the face of proposed changes to the scheme from the new coalition government. Save the Children’s Advocacy Director ... More >>
Vanuatu Still Recovering From Twin Cyclones One Year On, As Communities Prepare For Future Disasters
Monday, 4 March 2024, 6:56 pm | Save The Children
Communities in Vanuatu are still recovering from the devastating impacts of damaging twin cyclones that hit in early March 2023, while also preparing themselves to face future climate-crisis fuelled disasters with the support of Save the Children. Category ... More >>
Joint NGO Statement: EU And Member States Must Sustain Funding To UNRWA
Friday, 1 March 2024, 8:44 pm | Save The Children
In light of the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and the Israeli advance on Rafah, the last refuge for more than 1.5 million Palestinian civilians, the undersigned aid organisations are deeply concerned about the current and potential future suspension ... More >>
UKRAINE: 42 Civilian Casualties Every Day In Two Years Of War
Friday, 23 February 2024, 4:01 pm | Save The Children
Two years since the escalation of war in Ukraine, more than 10,500 civilians have been killed, including 587 children, and nearly 20,000 injured [1], as constant bombardments, mines, and drone attacks have left a generation traumatised, displaced and fearful ... More >>
Gaza: Families Forced To Forage For Food Left By Rats As 1.1 Million Children Face Starvation
Friday, 23 February 2024, 9:22 am | Save The Children
Families in Gaza are forced to forage for scraps of food left by rats and eating leaves out of desperation to survive with nearly five months of war and rapidly declining aid supplies leaving all 1.1 million children in Gaza facing starvation, Save the ... More >>
Save The Children: "Liveable Incomes Crucial To Children’s Wellbeing Now And Their Futures"
Thursday, 22 February 2024, 11:24 am | Save The Children
Save the Children is calling on the Government to commit to investing in policies to lift more children and whānau out of poverty following the release of today’s latest child poverty statistics shows significantly more children experiencing material ... More >>
UKRAINE - Over 600,000 Children Return Home To "extreme Needs" Including Danger, Destruction And Poverty
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 1:43 pm | Save The Children
As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, around 630,000 children - over one in 12 of the total pre-war child population - who were displaced have returned home to face extreme needs relating to their family's livelihoods, health, and threats ... More >>
No Respite For Children And Families In Gaza As UN Security Council Ceasefire Resolution Fails To Pass
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 10:46 am | Save The Children
The lives of at least one million children in Gaza remain at risk from fighting, starvation and disease, as well as ongoing severe mental distress from months of war, after the UN Security Council failed to pass yet another ceasefire resolution, ... More >>
World's 10 Largest Crises Force Over 10 Million Children From Their Homes - Save The Children
Monday, 19 February 2024, 6:50 pm | Save The Children
More than 10 million children were forced to flee their homes last year in the world’s 10 largest crises, according to new Save the Children analysis. This has likely pushed the number of children displaced globally to more than 50 million, the highest ever ... More >>
Statement On Israeli Airstrikes That Killed At Least Four Children In The South Of Lebanon
Friday, 16 February 2024, 10:00 am | Save The Children
Save the Children is calling on all parties to respect international humanitarian law after Israeli airstrikes in the south of Lebanon this week killed a mother and her two children and a family of nine including two children, according to media ... More >>
Save The Children Concerned By Changes To Benefit Indexing
Thursday, 15 February 2024, 8:11 pm | Save The Children
Save the Children New Zealand today expressed serious concerns that changes to the indexing of benefits, rushed through Parliament under urgency yesterday, may lead to lower benefit levels in the future that could increase hardship for New Zealand’s ... More >>
Joint Statement On Conflict-Induced Hunger In Gaza
Thursday, 15 February 2024, 9:16 am | Save The Children
We, the signatories of this statement, call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and a massive increase in humanitarian assistance to avoid famine in Gaza, and as the only way to comply with the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2417. ... More >>
