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Save The Children - Latest News [Page 27]

World Humanitarian Day: At home on the frontline

Sunday, 19 August 2018, 1:32 pm | Save The Children

To mark World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, Save the Children is highlighting the challenges faced by three aid workers who against many odds are improving the lives of children and women in some of the toughest places on earth. More >>

Better Facilities for Mum And Babies Required

Tuesday, 31 July 2018, 11:04 am | Save The Children

As our Prime Minister returns to work this week to juggle running the country and a new baby Save the Children NZ are encouraging more employers to provide facilities to enable mothers to breastfeed their babies for longer. More >>

Catastrophic Dam Collapse in Laos

Wednesday, 25 July 2018, 5:28 pm | Save The Children

Save the Children staff in Laos are preparing an emergency response after at least 10 people were killed and hundreds more left missing when a dam collapsed in the south of the country. Casualties are expected to rise in the coming days. More >>

Syria: Urgent Humanitarian Access Needed

Tuesday, 17 July 2018, 11:37 am | Save The Children

Syria: Urgent Humanitarian Access Needed to Families Displaced by Fighting in Dera’a Save the Children is calling for a ceasefire and urgent humanitarian access to children displaced by fighting in Dera’a in Southwestern Syria. Tens of thousands of civilians ... More >>

Almost Three in Four Rohingya Children at Risk

Monday, 2 July 2018, 12:46 pm | Save The Children

Almost Three in Four Rohingya Children at Risk of Becoming Lost Generation Warns Save the Children Save the Children is calling for an urgent and significant scale up of education programming for Rohingya children living in Bangladesh’s overcrowded ... More >>

Children Showcase Their Climate Change Understanding in Laba

Monday, 25 June 2018, 11:23 am | Save The Children

Children from St Mary’s Primary School with the banner they designed about disaster risk reduction. More >>

Refugee Crisis Not Over – Five Things You May Not Know

Tuesday, 19 June 2018, 3:18 pm | Save The Children

Refugee Crisis Not Over – Five Things You May Not Know About Refugees On World Refugee Day Save the Children NZ would like to highlight the fact that the refugee crisis is not over. Save the Children NZ CEO Heidi Coetzee said, “While the refugee ... More >>

Volunteers Join Legs to Help Children

Friday, 15 June 2018, 12:01 pm | Save The Children

Volunteers come in all shapes and sizes but these come as a team of four joined together. More >>

Emergency Health Unit to Help Prevent the Spread of Ebola

Friday, 15 June 2018, 11:14 am | Save The Children

Save the Children is deploying a team of medical workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help raise public awareness of the deadly Ebola virus—especially among children. More >>

Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh hit by biggest storm

Tuesday, 12 June 2018, 2:12 pm | Save The Children

Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh hit by biggest storm of the year Dozens of Rohingya refugee shelters were inundated with floodwater or hit by landslides over the weekend, as the biggest storm of the year to date hit refugee camps in Bangladesh’s ... More >>

Fijian Children Ask to Be Listened to About Disaster Risk

Friday, 8 June 2018, 1:51 pm | Save The Children

What do you get when you bring eight child advocates into a room with 18 Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) club members from disadvantaged communities and let them mix for three days? Lots of positive energy, inspiring discussions, giggles and pertinent ... More >>

Save the Children Responding to Guatemala Volcano Eruption

Thursday, 7 June 2018, 12:30 pm | Save The Children

Save the Children Responding to Guatemala Volcano Eruption Save the Children New Zealand says there is an immediate need for food, water, child protection, and sanitation to assist people affected by the eruptions of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala in recent ... More >>

Budget’s Positive Impact on Children Welcomed

Thursday, 17 May 2018, 2:58 pm | Save The Children

Budget’s Positive Impact on Children Welcomed The potential positive impact of this year’s Budget on New Zealand and Pacific Island children has been welcomed by Save the Children New Zealand (SCNZ). “Last week’s announcement by the Minister ... More >>

New Health Crisis Looms for Rohingya Refugees

Tuesday, 20 March 2018, 2:26 pm | Save The Children

Save the Children is warning that conditions are ripe for a devastating new health crisis in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh this coming monsoon season, which is expected to dump more than three metres of rain on the overcrowded and makeshift ... More >>

Afghanistan: Attack on Save the Children Compound

Thursday, 25 January 2018, 6:26 pm | Save The Children

It is with profound sadness that we can confirm three Save the Children staff members were killed earlier today in an attack on our office in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. All other staff have been safely rescued from the office. Four were injured in the attack ... More >>

Somalia Spirals towards Famine as Humanitarian Crisis Looms

Tuesday, 28 March 2017, 10:50 am | Save The Children

The international community is looking to repeat the same failures in East Africa that led to the deaths of over a quarter-of-a-million Somalis in 2011, Save the Children has warned. The international charity’s health and nutrition clinics are reporting ... More >>

34 children attend first Child Friendly Space in Kaikoura

Monday, 21 November 2016, 1:55 pm | Save The Children

Thirty four children are joining in the fun at the country’s first Child Friendly Space, opened today by Save the Children in Kaikoura following last week’s devastating earthquake. More >>

Child Friendly Space in earthquake struck town of Kaikoura

Sunday, 20 November 2016, 7:53 pm | Save The Children

Save the Children prepare to open first Child Friendly Space in earthquake struck town of Kaikoura Save the Children is on the ground in Kaikoura preparing to open the country’s first Child Friendly Space to help children recover in the wake of ... More >>

Save the Children urges Government to help children on Nauru

Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 3:45 pm | Save The Children

Save the Children is calling on the New Zealand government to redouble its efforts to offer refuge to children and families living in detention centres in Nauru, following fresh evidence of abuse. More >>

Budget investment in vulnerable children welcome

Thursday, 26 May 2016, 5:35 pm | Save The Children

Budget 2016 aligns well with Save the Children’s ambition around three areas: to reduce the number of children who die from preventable causes; get more children into school; and help children achieve their rights. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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