The Board of Save the Children Switzerland has appointed Adrian Förster as the new CEO of the child rights organisation. Förster will take over the function from September 2020. The previous CEO, Ömer Güven, left Save the Children at the end of May to take up a new professional challenge.
New analysis from Save the Children and UNICEF reveals that without urgent action, the number of children living in poor households across low- and middle-income countries could increase by 15 per cent, to reach 672 million
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.