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Thousands of children forced to flee homes as heavy rains hit Kenya

Drought and conflict drive highest number of Somalis to Kenya refugee camps in a decade

Kenya to host the Global Goals World Cup tournament ahead of the International Women’s Day

“I pray we get rain by the mercy of God.” - Crisis in Kenya: Children on the brink of catastrophe

An innovative bead necklace is revolutionising the detection of pneumonia for children living in remote areas of Kenya.

Global donors urged to move quickly to prevent starvation and death for millions in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya

Raging floods in Kenya have killed more than 250 people and displaced over 250,000 people since mid March

How fair are public finance decisions for children?

Devastating floods and landslides have affected about 600,000 children across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia so far this year.

Plague of locusts ravages three East African countries as region prepares for another year of hunger

One person is likely dying of hunger every 48 seconds in drought-ravaged Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, according to estimates by Oxfam and Save the Children in a report published today highlighting the world’s repeated failure to stave off preventable disasters.

Today, Kenya, along with the rest of the Horn of Africa, is experiencing one of the worst droughts in 40 years. Over 4.35 million Kenyans are going hungry while over 942,000 children require urgent treatment for acute malnutrition. One of the main causes of this unprecedented two-year drought is climate change, which has generated a lot of debate at the ongoing COP 27 summit, with climate change adaptation being one of the key highlights of this year’s discussions. Climate change is a long-term threat to food security and nutrition; it reduces crop yields, impairs nutrient quality and dietary diversity, and disrupts water and sanitation. Save the Children’s recent Generation Hope report shows that 774 million children in the world are exposed to high climate risks. It found that over 100 billion dollars could be saved every year responding to disasters if contingency planning, social protection and financial inclusion were improved.

Connecting children’s education needs to adequate financing

2019: Climate shocks claim more than 1200 lives across East and Southern Africa

Born and raised in Turkana: Miriam is serving her people during COVID-19

Horn of Africa: Over 100 killed and 700,000 displaced by El Nino rains as region braces for more wild weather

HORN OF AFRICA DROUGHT: Fears mount as rains failing for the fourth time and war in Ukraine sends food prices rocketing

Fears grow as locusts swarm towards South Sudan

Families resorting to extreme measures to survive hunger crisis prompts more funding from Save the Children

Hunger levels soar in Horn of Africa as region faces driest summer in over 35 years

An estimated 6.4 million adults in 12 countries[ii] were likely driven one step closer to getting COVID-19 vaccinations following Save the Children’s first behavioural science-led social media campaign to promote COVID vaccines, in collaboration with Meta, using Facebook and Instagram.

Locusts, floods and COVID-19: a potentially deadly combination for malnourished children across the Horn of Africa

The drought in the Horn of Africa, including Somalia, has been hard for children

COVID-19 risks in East Africa heighten as severe floods displace nearly half a million people

Save the Children press release on positive outcomes for children in 2023

Children routinely interact with people they don’t know online and respond with caution when approached.

Why the world urgently needs a global plan to get all children safely back to school

Children across Africa left in limbo at the climate summit says Save the Children

More than 27 million children were driven into hunger and malnutrition by extreme weather events in countries heavily impacted by the climate crisis.

SC Impact Investment Fund finalist at 2022 Australian Impact Investment Awards

What did 13,000 children in 46 countries tell us about living through COVID-19?

East Africa: Quarter of a million children may have died of starvation this year

Securing full and stable childhoods in Sub-Saharan Africa

10 positive outcomes for children in 2022 from progress to ending child marriage to FGM

SURVEY: Four out of five children in 15 countries say they see climate change or economic inequality daily

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.

Allows for the recruitment of girls and boys over the age of 15 which must be addressed following a truce between the Colombian government and ELN

The impact of COVID-19, conflict and climate crises are limiting African children, Save the Children warned as African leaders meet to discuss

World leaders fail to fund global learning crisis

Over 13,000 children join one of world’s largest consultations on climate crisis as 2022 slammed by extreme weather

Education is like oxygen for us

Time to deliver on our promise of support

Aid Worker Account from Omer Sharfy in Sudan to mark one month since the fighting erupted.

Save the Children Excited to Partner with University of California San Diego on U.S. Agency for International Development-funded Social & Behavior Change Research Project

Save the Children turns to science for handbook to boost COVID jabs in Philippines

Funds to protect children in crises fail to keep up with skyrocketing needs

Every child requires basic foundational literacy skills to open up life choices and opportunities

Mary, nurse in Cox’s Bazar, tells us why she works for Save the Children

We must act to avoid a lost decade for African children

Last week, Ukraine became the 100th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration.

Eight years after independence, highest number of people ever face critical food shortages in South Sudan

Save the Children is proud to announce the finalists for its inaugural Global Media Awards 2024, representing outlets from around the world whose innovative & impactful reporting has raised awareness about the challenges & achievements of children whose unique rights were first recognised exactly 100 years ago.

Reading is an essential foundation for learning

Drought and locusts causing mass hunger and misery for children in Madagascar

Public figures, including world-renowned actors Will Poulter, Forest Whitaker, and Gillian Anderson add their voices to open letter to world leaders

Drones delivering blood have revolutionised medical care for women giving birth at Rwanda’s largest refugee camp

About two in five children under the age of five in Somalia are likely to suffer from acute malnutrition by July 2024, despite initial hopes of rain

Children in North East Uganda take younger siblings to school for food in hunger crisis

Six children a minute left without caregivers from COVID-19 at risk of orphanages

Rotavirus vaccines made available for use in humanitarian crises

Children’s education is too important to be a casualty of war

Open Call for an Immediate Ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and Israel to Prevent a Humanitarian Catastrophe and Further Loss of Innocent Lives

A press release on the health and nutrition situation in Somali Region, Ethiopia, in light of droughts and severe conditions.

Over half of the world’s people living in poverty are children. Expanding child-centered social protection programs is proven to reduce child poverty.

2.4 billion reasons to end the global climate & inequality crisis

Immediate action needed to protect children from the global hunger crisis

Child malnutrition rates soar in eastern Ethiopia as once-in-a-lifetime drought strikes

Based on my own experiences in Save the Children over the past decade I have learned three key lessons of kindness from my colleagues across the globe

Eastern DRC: Tens of thousands forcibly displaced by surge in violence in Ebola affected area

African leaders must step up commitments to supporting girls’ education, especially during crises!

Over six in 10 children with access to the internet interact with "unknown others” daily despite concerns about online grooming

Newborn babies as young as two weeks old are catching the deadly mpox virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s overcrowded hospitals

At least 16% of children killed in six months of war in Ukraine aged under 5

Seizing the opportunity to deliver education to the world’s refugees

Learning from Promising Practices in Refugee Education

A third of Pakistan is under water, submerged after one of the worst monsoon seasons in recent history. Yet three months ago, the country was in the grips of a murderous heatwave, with temperatures regularly over 50˚C. The country is a victim – and will become a survivor – of a climatic catastrophe.

Ukraine becomes the 100th country to commit to keeping schools safe during armed conflict

The role of children in reimagining democracy: what would it take for a generation of children to be considered part of democratic societies?

Death rates from major cholera outbreaks in Sudan and Nigeria have surged to up to three times the global average putting thousands of children at risk as cases continue to rise as conflict and flooding hamper access to treatment, said Save the Children.

SOMALIA: Severe malnutrition among children soars 300% since January