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Suchana: Ending the cycle of undernutrition in Bangladesh

HEAT-STRICKEN BANGLADESH EXTENDS SCHOOL CLOSURES

Dhaka, 19 November 2025: The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD), in collaboration with Save the Children and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, unveiled the landmark scientific report “The Future Climate of Bangladesh” today at the Hotel Sheraton Dhaka. The report presents the most comprehensive long-term climate projections for Bangladesh to date, warning that the country could experience up to 4.5°C temperature rise by the end of the century, alongside intensifying heatwaves, rising sea levels, heavier rainfall, and growing climate-driven health risks.

Bangladesh has ordered the closure of all primary and secondary schools for another week following country-wide closures brought about by a heatwave.

#Bridgingthegap Connecting young campaigners across social divides in Bangladesh

BANGLADESH: 51 per cent increase in “unnecessary” C-sections in two years

Save the Children in Bangladesh Commemorates National Mourning Day

INDIA-BANGLADESH FLOODS CHANGE COURSE OF CHILDREN'S LIVES AS ENTIRE DISTRICTS SUBMERGED

Save the Children in Bangladesh announces “Youth Led Innovation Lab” champions

Senior government officials, development partners, and education stakeholders convened in Dhaka today to launch coordination under the Climate Smart Education Systems Initiative (CSESI), a national effort to strengthen Bangladesh’s education system against the growing impacts of climate change. Bangladesh faced extended closures last year, keeping children out of school for longer periods and resulting in learning loss. Supported by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), CSESI aims to integrate climate change adaptation and environmental sustainability into education sector plans, budgets, and strategies to mitigate these challenges.

Save the Children assesses the damage in India and Bangladesh in the wake of Cyclone Amphan

Suchana: Largest Food Security and Nutrition Program in Bangladesh Ends

Youth Climate Activists Held Global Climate Strike Across Bangladesh

Children’s ‘homes, schools and livelihoods washed away’ in India and Bangladesh floods: Save the Children

Over 30 youth organisation members unite for greater climate action in Bangladesh

Save the Children in Bangladesh Formally Launches SWOCCHAR Project to Strengthen Women-Led Organizations

BANGLADESH: EXTREME HEAT CLOSES ALL SCHOOLS AND FORCES 33 MILLION CHILDREN OUT OF CLASSROOMS

Save the Children in Bangladesh Wraps Up USAID MaMoni Project, Enhancing Maternal and Newborn Care

Save the Children and KOICA Collaborate to Strengthen Maternal and Neonatal Health in Rangpur, Bangladesh

Extreme heat has forced the closure of all schools in Bangladesh this week, impacting 33 million children

At least 113 children die from dengue in Bangladesh as deaths surge to a record high

BANGLADESH: DANGEROUS CYCLONE MOCHA EXPECTED TO MAKE LANDFALL ON SUNDAY PUTTING 1.5 MILLION CHILDREN AT RISK

Cyclone Remal tore through south west Bangladesh on 26 May affecting around 3.75 million people

BANGLADESH: MORE THAN 270,000 CHILDREN HOMELESS AFTER CYCLONE REMAL BATTERS COASTAL AREA

More than 1.5 million children are at risk, as Cyclone Mocha is expected to make landfall near the Bangladesh border.

Rohingya crisis: On anniversary of deadliest cyclone on record, thousands of lives at risk during Bangladesh storm season

Youth Participant from Save the Children in Bangladesh Joins UN General Assembly 2023 in New York

BANGLADESH & MYANMAR: More than 100,000 babies born in refugee and displacement camps in recent years

Youth Led Innovation Lab: A platform to showcase the talent and new ideas of the marginalized youth around Bangladesh.

COVID-19: Bangladesh has less than 2,000 ventilators serving a population of 165m, warns Save the Children

BANGLADESH: Two million children affected by unprecedented monsoon rains amid the longest-lasting floods in over twenty years

COVID-19: Forty percent of Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh are scared of dying or losing a loved one to the virus

SOUTH ASIA FLOODS: More than three million children affected by severe flooding across India, Bangladesh and Nepal

Save the Children in Bangladesh's PHCC Provides Critical Maternity Services During Cyclone MOCHA

COVID-19: Access to full mobile data and telecommunications in Myanmar and Bangladesh is essential to save lives, say 26 major aid groups

By Shahidul HaqueHead of ACCM | Save the Children in Bangladesh 25 August 2025 – COX’S BAZAR, BangladeshThis month marks eight years since over 700,000 Rohingya refugees fled violence in Myanmar to seek safety in Bangladesh.Eight years on, over one million Rohingya remain in exile in Cox’s Bazar – the world’s largest refugee camps.Out of those eight years, I have spent six working on the Rohingya response, living close to the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.This year marks perhaps one of the worst years for the Rohingya since the crisis began. Aid cuts, including cuts to education, have all contributed to an increasingly dire situation for the children and families who live here.

CYCLONE AMPHAN: Fears for children and families in low-lying areas as strong winds, storm surge and flooding expected in India and Bangladesh

Save the Children in Bangladesh hosted a day-long capacity training workshop titled “Empowering Young Voices for Climate Change”

Five years after Rohingya exodus, two thirds of children in refugee camps do not feel safer than when they arrived in Bangladesh

Explore the impact of technology-assisted learning on marginalized populations through the AGREE project in Bangladesh. This blog evaluates how blended learning, combined with life skills and vocational training, enhances girls' foundational skills and agency, revealing small yet significant gains in decision-making and freedom of movement.

Shahidul Haque is Save the Children’s Advocacy, Communications and Media Director in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Having worked on the response for six years and living close to the refugee camps himself, he has seen firsthand how worsening conditions—exacerbated this year by recent aid cuts—are affecting a generation of children growing up in the world’s largest refugee camps.

Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus told the United Nations General Assembly that the Rohingya refugee crisis is on the "brink of collapse" as international aid dries up, urging immediate global action.

August 19, Dhaka- With approximately 33% of the population being youths (age 5- 18), the MET Club was nationally launched at Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Center (BCFCC), Dhaka to accelerate the potential of child and youth-led risk management models in Bangladesh. Organized by the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD), Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES), Save the Children, Jago Nari, SKS Foundation, and Young Power in Social Action (YPSA), the event advocated for integrating the MET Club Model into national disaster risk reduction efforts. The event brought MET Club members from Dhaka and Chattogram, government representatives, development and humanitarian organizations, and community stakeholders together.

Press release Save the Children on fire in Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh

Statement in response to fire in Cox's Bazar refugee camp, Bangladesh.

In 2017 hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fled violence in Rakhine state in Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh.

Six years after 750,000 Rohingya people fled violence in Myanmar to seek safety in Bangladesh, the health and wellbeing of more than half a mill

In 2017, the world watched in horror as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh to escape violence.

18 December 2025, Dhaka: Save the Children in Bangladesh has convened the National Youth Summit 2025 on 17–18 December at the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC), Dhaka, bringing together 100 youth leaders from across 37 districts of the country under the theme “Amplify your voice, lead the future.”

Rohingya refugee children who have been forced to flee Bangladesh and Myanmar are now asking authorities in Indonesia for more freedom to leave.

As the rainy season in the region comes to an end, more Rohingya families are contemplating whether to leave Myanmar and Bangladesh and brave dangerous boat journeys in search of a better life and risk dangerous sea journeys at the mercy of smugglers and traffickers using often unseaworthy boats.

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 21 September 2025: Save the Children, with support from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), today launched Beyond the Darkness, a Coffee- Table photo-story book highlighting the strength and resilience of Rohingya children and their families.

Bangladesh experiences 19 landslides annually, with a 4% increase in these disaster events each year. They are particularly prevalent in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and surrounding districts including Chittagong because of intense monsoon rainfall, rapid urbanization, deforestation, and unregulated hill cutting. These events have caused over 700 deaths since 2000, destruction of infrastructure, and long-term displacement.

Save the Children in Bangladesh's Proyash II Project Bridges Communities in Savar Municipality

Children made up just under half - 44% - of predominantly Rohingya refugees leaving Bangladesh and Myanmar by boat in 2024 as the number of people taking to sea continues to rise.

Dhaka, June 25, 2025: The Saving Women and Premature Babies (SWAP) project, a flagship initiative led by Save the Children in Bangladesh in collaboration with the National Newborn Health Programme (NNHP) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), officially concluded today with a Learning Dissemination and Celebration Event held in Dhaka.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), in collaboration with Save the Children in Bangladesh, organized a national dissemination event today at Melaghor-1, DGHS, Mohakhali TB Gate, Dhaka, to share the findings of the Implementation Research and Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Application – a digital tool developed to strengthen the management of childhood illnesses in Bangladesh.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), in collaboration with Save the Children in Bangladesh, has officially launched the district-wide piloting of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness* (IMCI) App Integrated Digital Platforms (DHIS2, OpenSRP) under the National Management Information System (MIS) through National Newborn Health Program (NNHP) and IMCI team. The event, held on Saturday (26th April, 2025) at the Directorate of Health Office in Barishal, aims to accelerate national efforts to digitalize healthcare services for children under the age of five.

The first hospital specializing in maternal and neonatal care has opened in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in a step forward in improving healthcare for pregnant women, mothers and babies living in the world’s largest refugee camp, Save the Children said.The opening of the new Maternal and Child Hospital, the first hospital to specialize in maternal and neonatal health in the Rohingya camps, represents a glimmer of hope in an otherwise increasingly difficult environment in the camps.Cuts to foreign aid in 2025, coupled with an overall reduction in donor funding, has led to the closure of some healthcare centers in Cox’s Bazar and forced hundreds of schools in the camp to close. [1]Eight years since they were forced to flee their homes in Myanmar, more than 1 million Rohingya refugees remain in the camps in Cox’s Bazar in Southeastern Bangladesh. More than half of those displaced are women and girls.The new facility, which is the only one of its kind and run by Save the Children, aims to provide 24/7 emergency obstetric care and safe, dignified maternal and newborn care. It also aims to address critical gaps in referral-level services within the camp, in coordination with local partners and the government.

A Rohingya child and her mother have been killed by a mudslide in Cox's Bazar

Save the Children has sent four emergency response teams to support in the recovery

The new facility, which is the only one of its kind and run by Save the Children, aims to provide 24/7 emergency obstetric care and safe, dignified maternal and newborn care. It also aims to address critical gaps in referral-level services within the camp, in coordination with local partners and the government.

The violence—and the fear of violence and abductions—has led many Rohingya families to stay in their shelters and prevent their children from going outside.

Reduced funding, which has led to cuts in essential services like education and healthcare, and international aid cuts have meant that this has been a particularly difficult year for children living in the world’s largest refugee camp.

In recent days 10 people were killed in the world’s largest refugee settlement amid heavy monsoon rains

Ain O Shalish Kendra (ASK), Breaking the Silence (BTS), Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), Plan International Bangladesh, and Save the Children held a joint press conference - Protest and Concern Expressed by Child Rights NGOs on Child Rape, Abuse, and Murder - at the Dhaka Reporters Unity to express their grave outrage at the continuous sexual violence incidents that have plagued the nation and led to widespread protest. They expressed a number of demands from the government, including strengthening the justice system and holding the preparators accountable and making the issues of safety and exploitation from sexual violence a priority in their agenda.

Eco Sentinels has developed floating agricultural beds for salt-tolerant crops, supporting resilient farming against climate challenges such as rising soil salinity and flooding that threaten food security in coastal areas.

Save the Children has launched a photo series to celebrate the resilience of refugee children

Protecting children during COVID-19 requires innovation and creative thinking

We organized a ‘Consultation Workshop on Developing National Early Action Protocol (NEAP) for Landslides in Bangladesh’ to initiate systemic action against the rising risk of landslides in the coastal areas of Bangladesh. The comprehensive framework will focus on early warning systems, roles and responsibilities, trigger mechanisms, and community preparedness, enabling local communities to anticipate and effectively respond to landslides.

New name for education alliance, a new fight for quality and inclusion

Violence is never the way: End Corporal Punishment

Save the Children is with 2 million flood-affected children and adolescents

Stakeholders Applaud Success of Suchana Programme