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.
Children may see and hear things about escalating conflicts in the news, leading to feelings of anxiety and fear. A child protection expert shares tips on how to address their concerns.
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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."
