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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
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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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STAFF ACCOUNT: Curing malnourished children as malnutrition cases skyrocket by 50% in Afghanistan
Ahmad* joined Save the Children in 2021. He is a nurse with Save the Children’s Mobile Health Team and provides treatment for children and communities
STAFF ACCOUNT: The world must not turn its back on the 1 million Rohingya refugees living in Cox’s Bazar
In 2017 hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fled violence in Rakhine state in Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh.
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Staff Account: The 20 Years after the first World Humanitarian Day
Sonia Khush reflects on what's changed, what's improved and what's getting worse for humanitarians on the 20th anniversary of World Humanitarian Day.
Aid Worker Account: The ‘small superheroes’ who survived one of the worst Mediterranean Sea disasters in recent history
Alkistis Agrafioti Chatzigianni, a lawyer for Greek Council for Refugees (GCR), tells the story of child survivors from the Greece shipwreck
Breastfeeding during Emergencies: A case study from Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
World Breastfeeding Week 2023 aims to promote breastfeeding by making a difference for working mothers and fathers.
Experiences of child and early forced marriage programming in Sierra Leone
Dr Modupe Taiwo shares experiences of child and early forced marriage programming in Sierra Leone at the Women Deliver event in Rwanda.
EL NIÑO: WHAT IS IT AND HOW WILL IT IMPACT CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD?
As of 8th June 2023, an El Niño event was been declared and the projected impacts paint a worrying picture for children across the world.
Myanmar: What life is like for an Internally Displaced Family fleeing Conflict
Lay Lay tells the story of how her family fled conflict in Myanmar and explains what living in an IDP camp is like.