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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 >>
One In Three Children Displaced By Türkiye Earthquakes Still Homeless While Needs At Record Levels In Syria
Monday, 5 February 2024, 2:09 pm | Save The Children
One in three children who lost their homes in the Türkiye earthquakes a year ago are still living in temporary shelters, while children in both Türkiye and Syria have struggled with anxiety and other mental health issues since the disaster, Save ... More >>
Olive Groves, Farms In Southern Lebanon Destroyed In Rising Cross-border Violence With 86,000 People Forced To Flee
Saturday, 3 February 2024, 7:02 pm | Save The Children
Tens of thousands of families in southern Lebanon have lost their livelihoods and many their homes in the past four months after cross-border violence between Lebanon and Israel escalated, destroying 47,000 olive trees as well as other crops during ... More >>
UNRWA Funding Cuts Threaten Palestinian Lives In Gaza And Region, Say NGOs
Tuesday, 30 January 2024, 9:06 am | Save The Children
As aid organisations, we are deeply concerned and outraged that some of the largest donors have united to suspend funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main aid provider for millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the region. ... More >>
More Than Half Of Children Fleeing To Europe Face Danger On Their Journeys, Survey Finds
Friday, 26 January 2024, 7:32 pm | Save The Children
More than half of children fleeing into Europe reported feeling in danger on their long journeys from people smugglers, border officials and police, according to a report by Save the Children as EU leaders finalise new pact on migration. The child ... More >>
GAZA: 10,000 Children Killed In Nearly 100 Days Of War
Friday, 12 January 2024, 10:48 am | Save The Children
More than 10,000 children have been killed by Israeli airstrikes and ground operations in Gaza in nearly 100 days of violence, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, with thousands more missing, presumed buried under rubble, Save the Children said. ... More >>
GAZA: Blocking Food Supplies To Gaza Will Have Life-long Impacts On Children With Malnutrition Rising
Thursday, 11 January 2024, 12:07 pm | Save The Children
Denying children in Gaza access to food and basic supplies will have lifelong consequences for Palestinian children with rising numbers at risk of malnutrition, Save the Children warned. Since violence escalated in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory ... More >>
GAZA: More Than 10 Children A Day Lose A Limb In Three Months Of Brutal Conflict
Sunday, 7 January 2024, 1:47 pm | Save The Children
More than 10 children per day, on average, have lost one or both of their legs in Gaza since conflict erupted three months ago, said Save the Children. Since 7 October, more than 1,000 children have had one or both legs amputated, according to UNICEF ... More >>
12,000 Children A Day Forcibly Displaced In Gaza, As New 'Evacuation Orders' Issued To Civilians
Saturday, 23 December 2023, 4:38 pm | Save The Children
About 893,000 children are likely to now be internally displaced in Gaza, meaning an average of nearly 12,000 children a day have been forced to flee - many multiple times - since Israeli authorities launched their military operations following the ... More >>
