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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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Asmau*, 12, studies at home thanks to radio learning supported by Save the Children in Nigeria

“When I got the radio set, I jumped to the sky”

“When I got the radio set, I jumped to the sky”

Dayana, 15, El Salvador

The hidden impacts of COVID-19 on children’s mental health

The hidden impacts of COVID-19 on children’s mental health

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Eight Nights Stranded at Sea

Lebanese and refugees alike are desperate in their attempts to survive.

Nafisa* (25) was the first COVID-19 patient at Save the Children's isolation treatment centre in Cox's Bazar

“I was scared when my mother and sister were sick,” Nazib’s story

“I was scared when my mother and sister were sick,” Nazib’s story

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Children on the frontline of the Covid and Climate Crisis

Children on the frontline of the Covid and Climate Crisis

Aisha*, 15 is one of many other children in her village to have stopped going to school due to the Coronavirus pandemic. She is missing the school meals that, for most children in the village, is often the only and most reliable daily meal.

Drop the debt and invest in children’s futures today

Drop the debt and invest in children’s futures today

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Teachers' wellbeing is essential to children's development

Teachers' wellbeing is essential to children's development