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Fire Blazes Through Rohingya Refugee Camps Days Before International Funding Event In Geneva
Monday, 6 March 2023, 9:53 am | Save The Children
Responding to the news that a massive fire swept across three Rohingya refugee camps Sunday afternoon in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, destroying several Save the Children facilities, Onno van Manen, Save the Children's Country Director in Bangladesh, said: More >>
Vanuatu: Estimated 125,500 Children Impacted By Back-to-back Tropical Cyclones
Sunday, 5 March 2023, 5:44 pm | Save The Children
Communities in Vanuatu are slowly beginning to pick up the pieces left behind after destructive winds and heavy rains, brought by two Category Four cyclones, tore through the Pacific Island nation within the space of a few days, said Save the Children. ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Half Of Families Reducing Children’s Food Intake As The Country Slips Further Into Hunger Crisis
Friday, 3 March 2023, 12:24 pm | Save The Children
Half of families in Sri Lanka are forced to reduce the amount they feed their children, according to a survey by Save the Children, as the country’s economic downturn spirals further into a full-blown hunger crisis nearly a year after the government ... More >>
Doctors With Frontline Experience To Deliver Lifesaving Child ‘Blast Injury’ Training To Ukraine’s Medics
Thursday, 23 February 2023, 1:08 pm | Save The Children
A team of doctors with frontline experience have joined forces to train Ukrainian medics on how to treat children who have been injured by explosive weapons as the war reaches the one-year mark with nearly 1,500 child casualties. Doctors with international ... More >>
Wallace And Gromit Creators Team Up With Save The Children For Short Film To Mark One Year Of War In Ukraine
Thursday, 23 February 2023, 11:25 am | Save The Children
To mark the one year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, Academy Award®-winning animation studio Aardman - creators of films such as Wallace and Gromit - and international children’s charity Save the Children have released a short film to highlight the ... More >>
New Earthquakes In Türkiye And Syria Retriggering Acute Trauma In Children, Says Save The Children
Wednesday, 22 February 2023, 8:53 am | Save The Children
Another series of earthquakes in southern Türkiye and Syria has retriggered acute trauma in children with reports of people so scared they were jumping off balconies to escape buildings. Alexandra Saieh, Save the Children's Head of Humanitarian Policy ... More >>
Another Earthquake Hits Southern Türkiye
Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 6:36 pm | Save The Children
More buildings reported collapsed after another earthquake - this time magnitude 6.4 - hit southern Türkiye and northern Syria, areas already devastated by earthquakes two weeks ago. Dan Stewart from Save the Children said: "There are heart-breaking ... More >>
Over 900 Hours Underground: Children In Ukraine Endure Life In Bunkers As War Enters Second Year
Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 5:51 am | Save The Children
Children in Ukraine have been forced to hide underground for an average of about 920 hours in the last year - equivalent to 38.3 days or more than a month - since the conflict in Ukraine escalated, Save the Children said today. Sources that aggregate ... More >>
Children Who Have Survived The Earthquakes In Türkiye And Syria Need Help Finding Their Families, Not Adoption
Thursday, 16 February 2023, 9:32 am | Save The Children
Adoption is not an appropriate response for unaccompanied children until local authorities and humanitarian agencies have exhausted all efforts to trace and reunite them with their families and extended community, warned Save the Children. Viral images of ... More >>
Lack Of Clean Water, Toilets, Puts Earthquake Survivors, Particularly Children, In Türkiye At Risk Of Disease
Tuesday, 14 February 2023, 10:43 am | Save The Children
Areas of Türkiye worst affected by last week’s devastating earthquakes urgently need humanitarian aid in order to prevent a secondary public health emergency, said Save the Children. Thousands of people are without safe drinking water and sanitation ... More >>
Save The Children: Lack Of Visibility Of Children In Emergency Response "concerning"
Tuesday, 14 February 2023, 9:32 am | Save The Children
As Cyclone Gabrielle continues to cause widespread damage and disruption, Save the Children is calling for greater visibility of children in the response to climate-related emergencies. "We are deeply concerned about the lack of visibility of children ... More >>
Trapped Without Food: How Syria Is Grappling With One Of World’s Worst Earthquakes This Century
Friday, 10 February 2023, 11:05 am | Save The Children
Millions of children across northwestern Syria remain urgently in need of food, shelter and warm clothes three days after a deadly earthquake struck areas of Syria and Türkiye. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2302/406904edcb450a9da5e4.jpeg" ... More >>
Second Humanitarian Disaster Looms As Children Without Shelter And Water Following Earthquakes
Friday, 10 February 2023, 10:35 am | Save The Children
As the death toll passes 19,000 in Türkiye and Syria, hopes of finding more survivors are fading, a second humanitarian disaster is looming with countless survivors in freezing conditions without basics such as shelter, food, water and sanitation, said ... More >>
Race Against Time To Save Children Buried Under Rubble In Türkiye And Syria Following Devastating Earthquakes
Thursday, 9 February 2023, 10:11 am | Save The Children
With heart-breaking images of children being pulled from the rubble in Türkiye and Syria after the devastating earthquakes, Save the Children said the window to get shelter, medical supplies, water and food to the worst affected areas in order ... More >>
Children Sleeping In Cars As Too Scared To Go Inside While Freezing Conditions Hinder Aid To Earthquake Zones
Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 10:45 am | Save The Children
Freezing temperatures and damaged roads and airports are making it difficult for aid agencies to reach thousands of children and their families in desperate need of assistance following Monday’s devastating earthquakes, said Save the Children. ... More >>
Children Feared Trapped And Thousands Killed After Two Earthquakes Hit Türkiye And Syria
Tuesday, 7 February 2023, 1:42 pm | Save The Children
Rescuers were battling freezing conditions to reach children feared trapped under rubble after two devastating earthquakes hit Syria and Türkiye on Monday with thousands of others forced from their homes and more than 2,000 people reported killed, said ... More >>
Heating Bricks And Melting Ice: Creative Ways Ukraine Families Are Surviving This Winter
Friday, 27 January 2023, 9:15 am | Save The Children
Families in Ukraine are resorting to increasingly desperate measures to survive the war this winter, Save the Children said, as daily blackouts last up to 12-hours a day amid freezing temperatures. Power cuts are forcing families in parts of the ... More >>
Warnings Over Child Malnutrition Rising In Niger This Year As Climate Crisis, Conflict Take A Toll
Thursday, 26 January 2023, 6:47 pm | Save The Children
More children in southern Niger are suffering from malnutrition with doctors and aid agencies warning that the situation could get worse this year due to the climate crisis, higher food prices and more women and children arriving to escape violence ... More >>
Ukraine: One School Destroyed Every Other Day Since September
Tuesday, 24 January 2023, 11:45 am | Save The Children
One school has been destroyed every other day in Ukraine since the start of the academic year last September, Save the Children said today. Reports from Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science show that 48 schools were completely destroyed ... More >>
"Somali Children Should Not Be Forgotten’’: Children In Somalia Plead With World Leaders To Tackle Hunger Crisis
Tuesday, 17 January 2023, 12:55 pm | Save The Children
In a powerful open letter to world leaders, Somali children are calling for the international community to urgently find a solution to the climate crisis as Somalia edges closer to famine. The letter, written by six children aged between 12 and 15, ... More >>
