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15 Dec 2025
global
Aid After 2025: Why the Private Sector must become core to humanitarian response
As traditional funding collapses and crises escalate, businesses bring more than money; they offer innovation, scale, and new models for sustaining aid. But partnerships must be carefully governed to avoid unintended harm. This article was originally published on TRTWorld.
10 Dec 2025
global
Why children need safer, age-appropriate online spaces and not blanket bans
As policymakers across the world grapple with how to keep children safe online, a growing number are recommending age-based social media 'bans' as a tool to help keep children safe. While laudable in intent, at Save the Children, we are concerned that laws banning children’s access to online spaces – particularly if used in isolation – risk creating unintended harms, and a false sense of safety, as well as curtailing the opportunities that online environments offer to children. There are better alternatives.
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.
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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.
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. Learn more about the latest on the situation for children in Gaza and our response.
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
-has-received-psychosocial-support-from-a-Save-the-Children-clinic-in-Al-Gezira--ch1909379.jpg/w2p13s5oocf3b25g6br1ssd86bq8222w.jpg?g=0.5x0.33&w=392&h=261&format=webp&itok=t38dS04s "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.
Bisan: 6 months of war in Gaza
A month-by-month account of Bisan's experiences of 6 months of war in Gaza.
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?
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.
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.