Millions of people have been evacuated and aid agencies are on high alert as one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Bay of Bengal closes in on India and Bangladesh.
Officials in Aden have reported at least 385 people have died over the last week with Coronavirus-like symptoms. That’s over 50 deaths a day, a fivefold increase from the 10 deaths a day reported before the 7th May.
Caterina Meier-Pfister is Head Programme Partnerships at Save the Children Switzerland and was on a project visit to India with our partner Preglem/Gedeon Richter. In the interview she talks about the projects she visited and the big contrasts encountered.
Save the Children welcomes important landmark decision in Sudan to criminalise Feminine Genital Mutilation.
At a time when Afghan children need adequate daily nutrition to help strengthen their immune systems, the price of basic foods is rising under the lockdown, making it harder for families to feed themselves.
In an effort to slow transmission rates of COVID-19 Save the Children today launched an animated handwashing video, aimed at young children and families in the most vulnerable communities around the world.
Bangladesh has less than 2,000 ventilators serving a population of 165m
Fewer than 730 ventilators and 950 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds are available for more than 15 million children and their families in areas that are hard for aid agencies to reach in Yemen, northern Syria and Gaza - meaning they are critically underequipped to respond to an outbreak of COVID-19, Save the Children is warning.
Save the Children is deeply concerned about reports that at least one child has died at sea during a perilous journey by boat to Lesbos. Children are among the thousands of people reportedly caught up in violent clashes at the Greek border with Turkey.
Fabian Emmenegger is PR and Communications Manager at Save the Children Switzerland and was recently in Malawi for a media trip. In the interview below, he reports on the project he visited and what that experience meant to him personally.