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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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Samar*, 11, and his brother, Zalmay* (15) weave carpets to help support their family in Afghanistan

Aid is keeping Afghan children alive, but it can’t fix an economy in crisis

Chris Nyamandi, Country Director of Save the Children Afghanistan, describes how without long-term funding for things like education and healthcare, there is no future for children in Afghanistan.

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Once a child, now a champion for children

For World Humanitarian Day we share the stories of Sheila, Kimberly, Yasmeen and Joy. As children they were supported by Save the Children. Now, they all work with us to build a better future for and with the children of today.

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Afghanistan: what is life like for children since the Taliban takeover?

A year on from the Taliban takeover, read the stories of children and their families living in Afghanistan.

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Hunger, Cash Transfers and our Emergency Response to the 2021 Haiti Earthquake

Here's how Save the Children has responded to the 2021 Haiti Earthquake

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Breastfeeding: Barriers and Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Breastfeeding: Barriers and Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Children raise their hands in class in Syria

Child participation and not just youth, must be at the heart of evolving education

Child participation and not just youth, must be at the heart of evolving education

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Sima* (7 months) is screened for Malnutrition by a Nutrition nurse at Save the Children's Mobile Health Clinic.

Have you heard of S.A.M?

S.A.M. stands for severe acute malnutrition. Right now it is threatening the lives of 13.6m* children under the age of five around the world.