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15 Dec 2025

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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.

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10 Dec 2025

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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.

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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. 

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19 Mar 2025

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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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Once a child, now a champion for children

For World Humanitarian Day we share the stories of Sheila, Kimberly, Yasmeen and Joy. As children they were supported by Save the Children. Now, they all work with us to build a better future for and with the children of today.

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Afghanistan: what is life like for children since the Taliban takeover?

A year on from the Taliban takeover, read the stories of children and their families living in Afghanistan.

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Hunger, Cash Transfers and our Emergency Response to the 2021 Haiti Earthquake

Here's how Save the Children has responded to the 2021 Haiti Earthquake

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Breastfeeding: Barriers and Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Breastfeeding: Barriers and Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Children raise their hands in class in Syria

Child participation and not just youth, must be at the heart of evolving education

Child participation and not just youth, must be at the heart of evolving education

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Create a Facebook fundraiser for children

Support Save the Children and set up a facebook fundraiser.

Sima* (7 months) is screened for Malnutrition by a Nutrition nurse at Save the Children's Mobile Health Clinic.

Have you heard of S.A.M?

S.A.M. stands for severe acute malnutrition. Right now it is threatening the lives of 13.6m* children under the age of five around the world.

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10 things you need to know about famine

Ten things you need to know about famine and how you can help