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5 Nov 2024

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Online Safety: What Adults Can Learn from Children

Across all cultures and ages, children are suspicious of people they don’t know online, and we see them developing strategies to protect themselves. But it shouldn’t be just their responsibility to stay safe online - they need adults, especially their parents and caregivers, to step up and help. 

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16 Oct 2024

“I want to go back, even if my house is bombed” - Lebanon’s children’s hope to reclaim their dreams

Nadine Malli who works with Save the Children in Lebanon, has 10 years of experience working within the humanitarian sector. Currently, she is part of Save the Children Lebanon’s ongoing emergency response. Here she shares a testimony of her experiences.

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A doctor's story of hunger in Gaza

Nearly all 1.1 million children in Gaza are unable to get enough to eat after a year of Israeli bombardment and near-total siege. Children are dying because of malnutrition, dehydration and disease. Doctor Jamal Imam* is a Palestinian nutrition specialist working for Save the Children in Gaza and shares his experience.

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25 Sep 2024

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Five ways the rights of children have progressed in the past 100 years

Children’s lives have changed for the better in many ways in the 100 years since the Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child were endorsed

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Three young girls dressed in red look out towards the sea in Rafah, Gaza

GAZA STAFF ACCOUNT: The Reality of the Humanitarian Catastrophe

Words by Soraya Ali, an award-winning humanitarian and journalist on her visit to Gaza where she captures the war's impact on children.

Rubble and destruction in Rafah, Gaza

Education under attack in Gaza, with nearly 90% of school buildings damaged or destroyed

All schools in Gaza have been closed for 625,000 students for 6 months. 87.7% of all school buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed.

Monica at the transit centre in South Sudan

STAFF ACCOUNT - “My grandmother died in transit; the other passengers asked the driver to drop us off because they didn’t want to travel with a dead body.”

Monica* is a 25-year-old woman, who was born in South Sudan but fled to Sudan in 2013 when war broke out and had to flee back to South Sudan last year

Hamid* (12) has received psychosocial support from a Save the Children clinic in Al Gezira State, Sudan

Women in Health: From being displaced to running a health centre in Sudan

Save the Children is providing healthcare support to children and families in Sudan thanks to the work of brave local healthcare workers.

Photo of Bisan

Bisan: 6 months of war in Gaza

A month-by-month account of Bisan's experiences of 6 months of war in Gaza.

Baby Ahmed*, 7 months, is being treated for malnutrition and tuberculosis at a Stabilisation centre fully supported by Save the Children in Somalia

Is Global Health on the Ballot in 2024?

This year, with 70 elections, it's evident that health is intricately tied to political choices. How can leaders realise the right to health for all?

Yvenson and Peterson's family on the porch of the house in Haiti

Staff Account: Life under siege in Haiti

Words by Pierre Joseph*, 34, a Save the Children advisor in Haiti on the situation he and his family are living whilst under siege.

Stephen Kang singing with children in Save the Children's Child Friendly Space in Transit Centre 1 in Renk, South Sudan

After fleeing the war in Sudan myself, I can relate to children who have faced the same ordeal.

Almost 1 year on since the conflict broke out in Sudan, colleague Stephen provides an account on what fleeing the conflict to South Sudan was like.