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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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Violence is not the solution: How can we promote safe parenting practices?
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Staff Account: “Going outside – every trip could be your last.” The story of Olga Shults, Mariupol survivor turned humanitarian.
Mariupol was one of the deadliest places in Ukraine last year. Save the Children’s Olga Shults was one of an estimated 350,000 residents who escaped.
Healthcare Inequalities and the challenges for Children in Colombia
Health director Zaeem reflects on the healthcare inequalities in Colombia after visiting Save the Children's programmes there.
"After the Quakes": Türkiye Grapples with Rising Distress, Bullying, and Self-harm 100 Days Later
For 100 days, children and caregivers in Türkiye’s southern province of Hatay have been trying to come to terms with what happened.
Escaping Artillery Fire: A Family's Harrowing Experience Trapped in Sudan
Aid Worker Account from Omer Sharfy in Sudan to mark one month since the fighting erupted.
Innovation vs Implementation: Finding the Sweet Spot for Progress
Is innovation the key to solving the world's most pressing challenges, or are we too focused on finding new solutions?
.jpg-ch135962.jpg/5nqn0xeq7230hqc5v466t137vd32ojji.jpg?g=0.5x0.33&w=392&h=261&format=webp&itok=JTuKNwBe "Children attend a Save the Children supported preschool in Zomba district.")
Changing society’s mind-set: Corporal punishment is never ok
There is ample evidence that physical and humiliating punishment can be harmful to children’s development.