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At least 52 million children facing disrupted education due to Middle East and wider region conflict
"This conflict directly impacts not only students’ academic performance but their protection and ability to cope with increasing risks and instability.”
LEBANON STAFF ACCOUNT: Forced to flee but we are among the lucky ones
Jana, 28, is Save the Children’s Awards Management Coordinator in Lebanon. She has been displaced three times by conflict in Lebanon, the first time when she was eight years old. Jana and her family fled their house in Beirut on 2 March shortly after missiles struck a nearby neighbourhood.
ABOUT 68,000 CHILDREN DISPLACED AND SCHOOLS CLOSED BY CONFLICT IN EASTERN AFGHANISTAN
About 134,000 people have been affected by disruptions to Save the Children’s work, including health, nutrition, child protection and education programmes
NEWS QUOTE: Ten days of conflict claim lives of 10 classrooms full of children with 83 killed in Lebanon
Ten days since the first strikes in the Middle East and wider region 83 children have been killed in Lebanon, and almost 300 children have been killed in the region.
“EVERY WAR IS A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN, BUT IT MUST NEVER BE ACCEPTED AS AN INEVITABILITY”: STATEMENT FROM SAVE THE CHILDREN CEO INGER ASHING
As the world marks the Annual Day on the Rights of the Child on 9 March, bombardment, displacement, and terror are inflicting new wounds on a generation of children across the Middle East and wider region one week after hostilities escalated.
NEWS STATEMENT: 500,000 PEOPLE FACING DISPLACEMENT FROM SOUTHERN BEIRUT
Save the Children warned the orders issued to up to 500,000 people in southern Beirut could result in a humanitarian catastrophe.
“Children Across the Gulf Living In Fear": Save the Children Calls for urgent Diplomacy to End Hostilities
Millions of children have been placed at grave risk due to the escalation in conflict last weekend, including about 15.5 million children in GCC states, with fear, disruption and uncertainty now defining their days.
Goats help girls avoid child marriage as rates rise in Bangladesh
More than 1,000, or 85%, of 1,200 girls who received income-generating support from Save the Children in Bangladesh were able to avoid marriage and continue with their education after being able to start generating independent incomes.
A campaign running for 100 days from 27 November last year until International Women’s Day on 8 March has mobilised communities, faith leaders, and organisations to advocate for an end to child marriage globally with about one in five girls married before 18 – or about 28 girls every minute.