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• Hundreds of thousands evacuated from their homes in Dominican Republic but shelter capacity at breaking point.
• Haiti braces for catastrophic flooding and landslides less than one year on since deadly Hurricane Matthew.
• Save the Children’s Emergency Health Unit deploys to region, ready to help those in need. 

We have spokespeople available in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and London. 

Save the Children International's chief executive Helle Thorning-Schmidt said: 

“Save the Children expresses its deep concern for all civilians and especially children caught up in conflict in Rakhine state, Myanmar, which has escalated rapidly since August 25. We are particularly disturbed by reports of children being killed or injured.

As floodwaters begin to retreat in many of the worst affected parts of South Asia, farmers are counting the massive cost of the flooding disaster, which has destroyed more than 2.4 million hectares of cropland across India, Bangladesh and Nepal.

One million children in Gaza are living in dire conditions. Many celebrated Eid in the dark without electricity. A UN report in 2012 said Gaza would be unlivable by 2020. Save the Children considers Gaza to be unlivable now.