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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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