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FAIRFIELD, Conn. (May 18, 2025) — After a deadly tornado swept through rural, eastern Kentucky this weekend, taking lives and leaving nearly 50 miles of destruction in its wake, Save the Children is ...
GAZA (May 12, 2025)—The lives of the 1.1 million children in Gaza are urgently threatened by spiraling acute food insecurity as new data from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) ...
YANGON, 24 April 2025 - More than 40,000 [1] people are living in tents and other makeshift shelters one month after Myanmar's devastating earthquake with ongoing seismic activity making it impossible ...
JUBA, (April 9, 2025) – At least five children with cholera in South Sudan have died on an arduous journey to seek medical treatment, after aid cuts forced their local health services to close in the ...
LONDON/GENEVA, (March 27, 2025) – More than 1.8 million children will miss out on learning due to foreign aid cuts impacting Save the Children's education programmes in over 20 countries, from the ...
YANGON/BANGKOK, (March 30, 2025) – Save the Children and its partners are providing lifesaving aid in earthquake-affected areas in Myanmar with an immediate need for water, food and health care ...
FREETOWN, (June 21, 2024) – Sierra Leone has passed a historic bill to ban child marriage after girls across the country and Save the Children joined a campaign to criminalize the widespread practice.
FAIRIFELD, Conn., February 28, 2025 - Earlier this week, the U.S. government made further cuts to the U.S. foreign assistance budget, announcing that 5,800 of 6,200 USAID awards and 4,100 of 9,100 ...
ABUJA, (November 5, 2024) - An additional one million children in Nigeria will be suffering from acute malnutrition by April next year without urgent action as extreme flooding, escalating violence ...
The $28.2 million health-focused project will reach over a quarter of the country’s population FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Nov. 3, 2023)—Save the Children has signed an agreement with the Green Climate Fund ...
GOMA, (August 12, 2024) – Newborn babies as young as two weeks old are catching the deadly mpox virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 's overcrowded hospitals, Save the Children said, as ...
DELHI, (August 7, 2024) - A series of massive landslides in the hills of India’s southwestern Kerala state have killed more than 385 people,[1] including children, in the past week and forced at least ...