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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.
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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Staff Account: "I saw children seated next to their deceased parents"
Reath James Nyaluak*, 39, is a finance officer with Save the Children in Akobo County, South Sudan. Reath has been displaced several times since he was a child, however he says the latest violence in Jonglei state is as bad as he’s seen. Reath was in Walgak in January when he was forced to flee due to violence, and Akobo town when it was evacuated in March.
We can prevent maternal and newborn deaths - but the political will and funding is still missing
As we move through 2026, the world is facing a stark reality: families and children are experiencing some of the greatest and most urgent needs in modern history.
What I Told Members of the UN Security Council About the Recruitment and Use of Children in Haiti—and What We Need to Do Next
In Haiti today, a child can be recruited into an armed group with a pair of sneakers and the promise of a reliable meal. Johnny Cesar Etienne, Save the Children in Haiti Operations Director, recently told members of the UN Security Council what that says about the conditions facing a generation of children and what must be done to stop it.
LEBANON STAFF ACCOUNT: Forced to flee but we are among the lucky ones
Jana, 28, is Save the Children’s Awards Management Coordinator in Lebanon. She has been displaced three times by conflict in Lebanon, the first time when she was eight years old. Jana and her family fled their house in Beirut on 2 March shortly after missiles struck a nearby neighbourhood. Jana studied petrochemical engineering before becoming a humanitarian worker.
STAFF ACCOUNT: No Child Should Grow Up Used to the Sound of Explosions
A Save the Children staff member and mother based in the Gulf on experiencing conflict for the first time and what it reveals about children everywhere.
STAFF ACCOUNT - My first week of Ramadan in Gaza
Ramadan in Gaza this year is like no other. Ramadan is a time during which we celebrate life, reflect and come together with our families and loved ones. But this is the third Ramadan since the start of the war, and the painful reality of what we have endured over the last two and a half years is slowly sinking in. The tables are incomplete this year, not only because of what is missing from the plates, but because of who is missing from the chairs.
Sudan’s Children Need Healthcare Now — Not Another Lost Future
In this firsthand blog, Vishna Shah-Little, Save the Children’s Director of Child Rights, Advocacy and Campaigning, shares her experiences travelling across Sudan, witnessing collapsing healthcare, mass displacement, and families’ urgent needs. Her reflections highlight the lifesaving importance of open clinics, supported health workers, and sustained funding to protect children’s health, dignity, and hope as the conflict continues.
How Pageantry is Amplifying the Voices of Mothers
Stepping into pageantry at the age of 38, as a working mother and humanitarian, is not about titles or crowns—it’s about visibility. Drawing from her work with Save the Children Thailand and her own lived experience of motherhood, Chanita Craythorne, better known as 'Sammy' shares why supporting mothers is inseparable from supporting children.
In this blog, she speaks candidly about the hidden emotional labor mothers carry, the dangers of neglecting maternal wellbeing, and her decision to speak openly about postpartum depression to help break long-standing silence and stigma