The devastating Asia tsunami of December 26, 2004 was one of the biggest emergency responses in Save the Children’s history. Three years later, Save the Children continued to stand by hundreds of thousands of children and family members who...
Education is a vital part of what we do and it will continue to play a vital role in our response to disasters. We know that the early provision of safe places to play and to learn is essential for children’s protection and recovery. This...
2005 was an extremely challenging year, involving large-scale responses to several natural disasters and a new global education campaign.Today, over 100 million children worldwide do not have the opportunity to go to school. By denying children...
Decades of insecurity have strongly affected the children in Afghanistan. Both health and education systems suffer from poor finances, lack of qualified professionals, and security problems. Afghanistan remains extremely poor and children suffer...
Though Angola’s 27-year civil war ended in 2002, the country still ranks as one of the worst places for children to grow up.The debt-ridden government spends much of its budget on food and health, leaving little for education.Save the Children is...
43 million children living in countries around the world wrecked by war and armed conflict are being left without the chance to go to school. This report is part of Save the Children’s five-year Rewrite the Future education initiative, which...
The quality of education has worsened since the beginning of the civil war in Côte d’Ivoire in 2002. The retention rate is 52 percent and absenteeism of children can be quite high. Children have few opportunities to participate in school...
The objectives of the report are: to: a) Evaluate the achievement of the specific goals for each country, based on the goals that were defined in the proposal; b) evaluate the post-emergency assistance offered as a result of Hurricane Stan and the...
The devastating Asia tsunami of December 26, 2004, was one of the biggest emergency responses in Save the Children’s history. Two years later, Save the Children continued to stand by hundreds of thousands of children and family members who...
Past and present armed conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have badly affected children, and the country has one of the highest number of child soldiers in the world. Forty years of poor governance, economic collapse, exploitation...