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15 Dec 2025
global
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.
10 Dec 2025
global
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.
22 Oct 2025
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.
19 Mar 2025
global
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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Myanmar-Thailand earthquake: "My children can talk of little else but the earthquake and what if it happens again"
A Myanmar/Thailand Staff account on the experience of children during and after an earthquake and psychosocial support with some guidance about earthquakes, what to do and how to talk about them, for children and families.
OP-ED: When children in Gaza are not off limits, the world has failed
The war's resumption is a death sentence for Gaza's children. This March saw some of the deadliest days for children in Gaza. In this op-ed, Rachael Cummings, Humanitarian Director for Save the Children in Gaza highlights the severity of the situation for children and calls for a definitive ceasefire.
STAFF ACCOUNT: I witnessed the deadliest day for children in Gaza
Shaima Al-Obaidi is a senior media manager at Save the Children UK, specialising in reporting on children impacted by conflict. She has previously been deployed to Afghanistan, Somalia, South Sudan and is currently on a deployment in Gaza.
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.
OP-ED: The world must not accept the ‘new normal’ in Palestine
Violence in Gaza and the West Bank is escalating, yet the world is accepting it as the ‘new normal.’ This powerful op-ed by Save the Children’s UN Representative, Mohamad Alasmar, calls for urgent international action to uphold human rights, demand accountability, and prevent further suffering.
OP-ED: Cutting aid is not just a moral failure to the world's children but a strategic miscalculation
Gabriella Waaijman, Chief Operating Officer at Save the Children International, sheds light on the harsh reality of aid cuts and stresses the urgent need for continued global support to protect vulnerable children and prevent further harm in times of crisis.
Foreign aid cuts: what’s happening and what does it mean for children?
Funding cuts are putting our lifesaving work under threat. Governments across the world are slashing foreign aid budgets that millions of children facing the toughest challenges depend on.
Staff account from Bukavu, DRC: “I saw my wife trembling-it was the first time she'd experienced such terror”
Staff Account: Elias works with Save the Children in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). During the recent escalation of conflict, he was in Goma, but was able to leave for Bukavu, South Kivu, which is separated from Goma by Lake Kivu.
When the fighting reached Bukavu, he was forced to hide in his home with his family. Here, Elias shares his experience: