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22 Oct 2025
What the Ceasefire means for Children in Gaza – and what comes next
The announcement of a pause in hostilities offers a moment of hope for children and families in Gaza. But while it provides a brief respite, it is not enough.
19 Mar 2025
global
Foreign Aid Cuts: The real impact on children and our programmes
Foreign aid funding cuts are putting our lifesaving work under threat globally. Over 40 countries we operate in have been impacted across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. Learn more about the real impact of foreign cuts on children and our programmes in this blog.
8 Oct 2025
STAFF ACCOUNT: "I HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN SURVIVAL HERE AND ENSURING MY LOVED ONES DON'T STARVE THERE": MOTHER AND DAUGHTER DISPLACED EIGHT TIMES IN GAZA
Shurouq, 31, is a Save the Children staff member in Gaza. Since October 2023, she has been displaced eight times after losing her husband in the first weeks of the war. In September 2025, under relentless Israeli bombardment, she left her home in Gaza City with Karmel*, her 3-year-old daughter. In this account, she tells us about the impact of two years of relentless violence and multiple displacements on her and her daughter.
6 Oct 2025
STAFF ACCOUNT: After the Afghanistan earthquake, 'we feel so much pain in our hearts'
Mujib Ur Rehman Hamdard, the head of Save the Children Afghanistan's Kunar Field Office, shares his experience of the Afghanistan earthquake and the initial response one month on from the 6.0 magnitude earthquake which devastated parts of eastern Afghanistan, including Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, on the 1st September 2025.
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2023: a year of catastrophes for children worldwide
Save the Children International CEO Inger Ashing shares the challenges children faced in 2023 in places such as Sudan and Gaza.
-attends-a-Save-the-Children-clinic-in-Sudan-with-his-mother-Nada-(30)-t-ch1926949.jpg/7l7di81r0584hp6jtw6b03jj35h80n55.jpg?g=0.5x0.33&w=392&h=261&format=webp&itok=vk1p7vHm "Jamaal* (11 months) attends a Save the Children clinic in Sudan with his mother Nada* (30) to receive treatment for malnutrition (pre-surgery)")
The fight to save her son’s life: Jamaal and Nada’s story
How Save the Children supported a child in Sudan have a surgery and recover amidst the ongoing conflict and collapsed healthcare system.
STAFF ACCOUNT: “There is tension and fear in the air, that we are waiting, waiting for something worse to happen."
STAFF ACCOUNT: “There is tension and fear in the air, that we are waiting, waiting for something worse to happen.
REFUGEE CHILDREN AND RESPONSIBILITY SHARING: KEY PRIORITIES FOR THE GLOBAL REFUGEE FORUM
Blog summarizing the importance of spotlighting the rights and needs of refugee children at the Global Refugee Forum
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Blog focusing in the situation on Turkiye as a country that hosts over 3.6 million refugees, ahead of the Global Refugee Forum.
COUNT DOWN TO GLOBAL REFUGEE FORUM: SPOTLIGHT ON UGANDA
Blog with a spotlight on Uganda as a refugee-hosting country ahead of the Global Refugee Forum.
Behind the pretence of safety: How children across the whole of Gaza have nowhere safe to go
Save the Children’s Country Director of the occupied Palestinian territory shares his experience of visiting Gaza.