Save the Children today announced its participation in a worldwide social impact campaign with Mattel, Inc., alongside Amazon MGM Studios tied to the upcoming “Masters of the Universe” movie.

Two children were among at least eight people killed when artillery shells hit an iftar gathering in Hajjah, northern Yemen, with 30 others injured, including one child.

Families are sleeping in cars, in the street, and in damaged schools seeking safety as the number of people displaced in Lebanon rises and seven children are reported killed, Save the Children said.

Continued attacks in Ukraine have caused widespread power outages as temperatures dropped to minus 20 in parts of the country this week.

Armed gangs have looted and burnt down a Save the Children office and destroyed a health care center in Walgak in South Sudan's eastern Jonglei state where violence is escalating.

More than one in three children are facing severe hunger in Afghanistan this winter - an increase of 18% from a year ago.

Floods and landslides in Indonesia have left children with wide-ranging health challenges and out of school as water levels recede in some parts of Sumatra, Indonesia.

Coastal and river waters are inundating communities across western Washington this week, due to relentless heavy rains. Save the Children is working swiftly to meet the most urgent needs of children and families hardest hit.

The Israeli government's aid restrictions mean that severe winter weather is cutting children in Gaza off from much-needed child protection and psychosocial support services, Save the Children said, as storms began again.

About 2 million people - or nearly one in ten in Sri Lanka - have been impacted in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah, with 114,000 people living in temporary shelters after nearly 74,000 homes were damaged, according to the Sri Lanka Disaster Management Center.

Emergency teams are racing to get food and essential supplies to families hit by devastating flooding and landslides in Indonesia with some villages cut-off, while in Sri Lanka, canoes supplied by Save the Children have been used in rescue efforts.

A series of attacks by armed groups in Nampula, northern Mozambique, have forced over 82,000 people, including 55,000 children, to flee from their homes.

Severe flooding in Southern Thailand has impacted around 400,000 children, including at least three children killed and another child missing, with thousands of others displaced or without power.

Less than a third of people needing food assistance in Somalia received support in October, with worsening conditions prompting the country to declare the first national drought emergency in nearly three years.

Save the Children and its political advocacy arm, Save the Children Action Network (SCAN), welcome Congress's clear vote of support for essential nutrition programs through passage of a legislative package that restores funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).

Rohingya families are contemplating whether to leave Myanmar and Bangladesh and brave dangerous boat journeys in search of a better life. These risky journeys put them at the mercy of smugglers and traffickers using often unseaworthy boats.

International non-governmental organizations working in Sudan are deeply saddened and shocked by the tragic loss of five volunteers and remain gravely concerned about the three volunteers who are still missing.

After walking for four days to escape the escalating violence in El Fasher, mothers arriving in Tawila in desperate need of aid recounted harrowing journeys.

Save the Children, together with three corporate partners, has been honored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation in the 2025 Citizens Awards.

Thirty-five children were reported to be among those killed overnight by renewed airstrikes from Israeli forces in Gaza.

At least 17 children were killed and a further 22 injured in a particularly violent October in El Fasher, Sudan, said Save the Children, as the city marks 18 months of siege.

Of the around 118 million children plunged into hunger so far in 2025, around 63 million – over half - were forced into this situation by conflict.

The number of Rohingya refugees who left Bangladesh by boat in the first six months of 2025 has tripled compared to last year.

About 167 million adolescent girls growing up in countries with the widest gender equality gaps are among those worst hit by this years’ aid cuts, with the massive fall in global aid having a disproportionate impact on countries where it is hardest to be a girl, according to Save the Children analysis.

From destroyed homes and playgrounds to dreams of becoming doctors, writers, and fashion designers, children in Gaza have expressed how two years of war have reshaped their lives and risk shattering their dreams in a series of drawings released today by Save the Children. 

Hundreds of thousands of children have been forced to flee from their schools and homes in Mindanao province in the southern Philippines after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake triggered tsunami warnings.

Reports of an impending pause in hostilities in Gaza signals a hopeful reprieve on the horizon for families and children, but must be a turning point to secure a definitive ceasefire.

One week after a deadly earthquake struck central Philippines, about 2.7 million children—or 10% of the country’s students—are still out of school.

Children whose parents were killed in Afghanistan’s devastating earthquakes a month ago are being cared for by their extended families who are reliant on aid.

The sixth year of flooding in South Sudan combined with aid cuts is exacerbating one of the world’s worst hunger crises.

Save the Children and Save the Children Action Network (SCAN) today expressed deep concern about the U.S. government shutdown and the rescission of approximately $4.9 billion in U.S. international assistance funding.

Mothers in northern Kenya are struggling to feed their children due to drought, crocodile attacks curtailing fishing, locusts decimating crops, and aid cuts reducing nutrition services, Save the Children said.

A deadly earthquake that struck Myanmar six months ago has exacerbated an already dire humanitarian crisis and has left 9.3 million people, or one sixth of the population, in need of shelter, almost one third of them children.

Babies are being born in tents in earthquake-devastated Eastern Afghanistan, with rock falls and boulder-strewn roads making the journey to hospital perilous for pregnant women.

South Korean actor and singer Park Jin-young has donated 100 million won ($72,000) to support children's meals in celebration of his 31st birthday on September 22, Save the Children said.

Children aged under five living in the world's deadliest conflict zones are no closer to escaping hunger a decade after world leaders committed to ending child malnutrition, said Save the Children.

International non-governmental organizations working in Sudan express grave concern about the deteriorating situation in Al Fasher.

The international community has disregarded the lives of one million children in Gaza yet again with the failure of the UN Security Council to pass another ceasefire resolution today, Save the Children said.  

At least one in five children have experienced online sexual abuse in Finland with one in three girls impacted, according to a survey by Save the Children which has launched a nationwide digital campaign to better protect children online.

Bolivia has become the 14th country in Latin America to ban child marriage after girls across the country and Save the Children joined a campaign to criminalize the practice. 

Save the Children has been recognized with the 2025 Blackbaud Impact Changemaker Award, celebrating bold innovation in donor engagement and technology transformation to drive greater impact for children worldwide.

A midwife in Afghanistan walked hours to help deliver a baby with just a first aid kit, as the country was hit by yet another earthquake overnight and aid agencies continue to try to access hard-to-reach areas.

Villagers in a remote village in Sudan are using their hands to try to reach people who were buried in a landslide days ago, as the first emergency workers arrived on donkeys to find mass devastation and hundreds dead, Save the Children said.

Save the Children aid workers traveling on a herd of donkeys have delivered the first emergency supplies to a remote village in western Sudan that was cut off by a massive landslide.

Thousands of children are in urgent need of food, water and shelter in eastern Afghanistan as teams battle against time to rescue injured people from mountainous and remote villages destroyed by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake.

Rescue teams are racing to Kunar province in eastern  Afghanistan where a devastating earthquake has killed at least 600 people and injured more than 3,000, including many children and the number of casualties continuing to rise.

An average of one humanitarian worker has been killed, injured, kidnapped or detained every day since 2000, with 2025 on track to be the deadliest on record for aid workers, Save the Children said on World Humanitarian Day.

Israeli authorities have rejected requests from dozens of NGOs to bring lifesaving goods into Gaza, citing that these organizations are "not authorized to deliver aid." 

More than 130 million disease-reducing mosquitoes are being released in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, after cases of dengue hit a record high globally in 2024 at over 14.4 million.

On average, the equivalent of one child every 30 seconds has returned to Afghanistan from Iran or Pakistan so far this year at a time when nearly half the country's population already needs humanitarian aid.

More than 22,000 people, including over 11,000 children, have been displaced in Mahaas in central Somalia due to intense fighting.

More than four in 10 (43%) pregnant and breastfeeding women seeking treatment at Save the Children's clinics in Gaza in July were malnourished.

The number of children under five with acute malnutrition seen at Save the Children's Gaza clinics surged 10-fold in four months.

In response to a temporary humanitarian pause to allow aid into Gaza, Save the Children warns that only a permanent and unconditional ceasefire can truly save children’s lives.

The combined number of cases of five infectious diseases have doubled in Somalia since mid-April as aid cuts force hundreds of health clinics to close.

Food stocks have plummeted to alarming new lows in Kadugli in Sudan's Kordofan region, with recent attacks on markets and villages this month killing hundreds and siege-conditions reaching a tipping point, said Save the Children.

Exactly two months since the Israeli government-controlled plan, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, began operating, 109 organizations are sounding the alarm, urging governments to act: open all land crossings; restore the full flow of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items, and fuel through a principled, UN-led mechanism; end the siege, and agree to a ceasefire now.

Families in Syria’s Sweida Governorate are trapped without medical care, clean water or enough food after fighting closed hospitals.

Save the Children and Save the Children Action Network (SCAN) today expressed deep disappointment following congressional passage of the administration’s $9 billion rescissions package.

Hundreds of children have recounted harrowing stories of terror and loss after their homes in Sudan's North Darfur region were attacked.

Save the Children and its advocacy arm, Save the Children Action Network (SCAN), are deeply concerned about the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to withhold disbursement of critical federal funds that support afterschool and summer programs in communities across the country.

Nearly 1,000 people have been killed so far this year in Sudan while seeking health care or visiting loved ones in hospital, with attacks on hospitals nearly tripling after two years of conflict and exacerbating a cholera outbreak, Save the Children said.

About 80,000 Afghan children crossed into Afghanistan from Iran in June, as total arrivals more than doubled compared to May, pushing an already overstretched system to the brink, Save the Children said.

Over a dozen schools and kindergartens have reportedly been damaged in a deadly attack on Dnipro, with at least two children injured when a train was shelled.

The number of children reporting sexual assault after fleeing into Burundi to escape violence in the DRC has more than tripled this year with aid cuts.

Jennifer Garner and Becs Gentry have gone the extra mile for kids – 67 to be exact – in support of Save the Children's efforts to bring life-saving malnutrition treatment to children who urgently need it now. 

Children across the Middle East are in grave danger of physical harm, severe emotional distress, and displacement following an escalation in hostilities in the region, said Save the Children.

A deadly mix of conflict, climate change, and poverty has pushed 2.3 million children aged under 5 in South Sudan into life-threatening acute malnutrition, with rates soaring just months after foreign governments announced the slashing of funds to the world's poorest countries, Save the Children said.

In response to the new hub system for aid distribution in Gaza, Save the Children President & CEO Janti Soeripto has released a statement.

About 300,000 [1] children risk missing out on education after UNICEF, Save the Children and partners were forced to close learning facilities in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, due to funding cuts, said Save the Children.

Difficulties reaching communities impacted by devastating flooding in Mokwa in north-central Nigeria is hampering relief efforts, said Save the Children, which is preparing to respond to the disaster.

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 working to provide critical supplies and support to help children and families hardest hit by the powerful storm.

At least 55,000 children supported by Save the Children in Somalia will lose access to life-saving nutrition services by June, as the reduction in foreign aid force 121 Save the Children-supported nutrition centers to close.

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) found 93% of people are experiencing crisis-level acute food insecurity or worse.

At least 19 children were killed and 78 others injured in attacks across Ukraine in April, making it the deadliest recorded month for children in nearly three years.

More than 40,000 people are living in tents and other makeshift shelters one month after Myanmar's devastating earthquake with ongoing seismic activity making it impossible for them to return to their homes or start repairs, Save the Children said.

One child every 10 seconds on average has been forced to flee their homes since the conflict began in Sudan two years ago, according to new analysis from Save the Children.

On April 11, 2025, over 100 people, including more than 20 children, were reported killed.

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 middle of a major outbreak of the deadly disease, Save the Children said. 

The number of children going hungry in war-torn eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has surged 50% due to an escalation in violence this year.

One week on from the powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit central Myanmar, children are grieving for loved ones lost in the disaster while immediate needs such as water, food and shelter remain high, Save the Children said.

The earthquake on 28 March - the most powerful one in a century to hit Myanmar - caused extensive damage to infrastructure and disrupted electricity and telecommunications services across the country.

Children and families in Myanmar need urgent humanitarian support after the strongest earthquake in a century [1] struck the country, causing widespread damage and casualties with many people still unaccounted for, Save the Children said.

The earthquake was felt in many parts of the country, including major cities like Yangon, Mandalay and towns in Magway, Sagaing, and Shan, with tremors causing destruction in Thailand and felt elsewhere in the region.

Thousands of displaced families, including children and newborn babies, in Syria’s coastal city of Latakia are facing severe shortages of blankets, food, water, and electricity after deadly clashes earlier this month, with Save the Children delivering emergency supplies.

Time is running out for the nearly one million residents of Sudan's biggest refugee camp, many of whom are children, with food and medical supplies nearly depleted and Save the Children warning that it has just two days of medical supplies left in its mobile health clinics.

The INGO Forum strongly condemns the escalating violence in Sudan's North Darfur. The deliberate targeting of civilians and displacement camps has turned the region into a death trap for over a million people.

Children caught in heavy fighting in the town of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) must be protected. Save the Children is concerned for their safety amid the worst escalation of violence in the country in more than a decade.

As wildfires continue to burn across Los Angeles County, threatening children's homes, schools, communities and health, Save the Children is working to meet the most urgent needs of kids and families living in some of the areas hardest hit by the devastating wildfires.

Children made up 44% of predominantly Rohingya refugees leaving Bangladesh and Myanmar by boat in 2024. About 460 people have taken to the sea so far in 2025 as the numbers continue to rise, Save the Children said. 
 

New low-cost tools that measure newborn babies' feet to screen for prematurity or low birth weight are under trial in Ethiopia in an initiative to help tackle the leading cause of death among young children, particularly those born at home.

About 235,000 children forced from their homes by bombs, bullets and displacement orders in Gaza are facing increasing risk of disease as days of heavy rains flood tents and turn camps into swamps, Save the Children said.

An estimated 21,000 children in Port-au-Prince have been forced from their homes in the past two weeks due to escalating violence while armed groups recruit more children into their ranks.

A new climate-resilient school built to withstand extreme weather has opened in Pakistan's Sindh province.

Save the Children is calling for civilians to be protected after two children were reportedly killed and 11 injured in a strike on a residential building in Ukraine’s northeastern region of Sumy in one of worst weekends of attacks in recent months.

Over 2 million babies are estimated to have been born in 18 months of devastating conflict in Sudan, all at risk from a decimated healthcare system and crisis levels of hunger, according to a new analysis by Save the Children.

After deadly Hurricane Milton ripped across Florida overnight, Save the Children is working to meet the urgent and long-term needs of children and families hardest hit by the devastating storm.

Aid workers from several organizations caught up in a five-month siege of El Fasher in southwestern Sudan said the lack of services and escalating violence was making life harder by the day, calling for immediate action to protect those at risk. The aid workers describe their experiences of the brutality of the constant bombardment and dwindling access to food, clean water, medicine or healthcare after nearly 18 months of conflict in Sudan

With emergency supplies pre-positioned ahead of Hurricane Milton, Save the Children is equipped to help deliver critical, child-focused supplies to Florida kids and families who need them most– including diapers, wipes, hygiene kits and more.

The conflict in Sudan has seen a major increase in intensity in recent weeks, with violence hitting a seven-month high in the country, with children on the frontline, said Save the Children. Violent incidents include airstrikes, artillery shelling, use of explosives and remote violence in multiple regions.
 

At least 21 children are among an estimated 270 people killed, and more than 1,000 injured in Israeli strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday, with all schools now closing and children terrified, said Save the Children. 

World leaders convene on 22-23 September for the 2024 Summit of the Future in New York to accelerate action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other global challenges. Children from rural and poor families are increasingly being left behind in global development according to a new report by Save the Children.

Cases of the potentially deadly mpox virus have skyrocketed about 75-fold in children and young people under the age of 19 in the most severely impacted province in the Democratic Republic of Congo so far this year, Save the Children said.

Nearly 500 unaccompanied and separated children have arrived in Blue Nile and Gedaref states in Sudan over six weeks as heavy fighting forces more people to flee for safety after 16 months of conflict, Save the Children said.

The number of children in Sudan seeking treatment for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) has surged to unprecedented levels, with clinics overwhelmed and global experts on food security warning that parts of the country are in the worst possible phase of hunger

A drone that can deliver food, water, and medical supplies to hard-to-reach communities during a disaster, was handed over to local government officials this month in Himachal Pradesh, northern India by Save the Children.

About 75% of children in Sudan are now going hungry daily as conflict drives hunger levels to record levels, raising fears of rising child malnutrition.