More than 800,000 people, including 375,000 children, have been displaced by worsening floods in Bihar, India after heavy monsoon rains submerged160,000 homes. Three children from one family, aged four, six and nine, were found dead after local people dug out their bodies from the debris.
Last year, we implemented projects in 39 countries, making a positive and lasting impact on children's lives. What we achieved and how we dealt with the challenge of Covid-19 can be found in the new annual report.
Thousands of children in Rwanda will soon receive help from Save the Children but from an unusual source – cryptocurrency.
The world’s newest country, South Sudan, is facing its worst ever hunger crisis as it marks its 10 year anniversary, with 7.2 million people, including millions of children, on the brink of or in famine, Save the Children said today.
At least 51 children, most of them girls, have been abducted by non-state armed groups in the northern Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado over the past 12 months.
Under the threat of another eruption, tens of thousands of people have been ordered to leave Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, raising fears that even more children are at risk of being separated from their families, Save the Children warned.
Concern is mounting for the safety of hundreds of thousands of children as India braces for Cyclone Yaas, expected to hit the eastern states of West Bengal and Odisha tomorrow, local time.
Save the Children welcomes the news of a ceasefire. Attention must now turn to providing desperately needed assistance to children and their families, said Jason Lee, Country Director in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Fifty schools in Gaza have been damaged by Israeli airstrikes over the past week, Save the Children said today, impacting 41,897 children. Three further schools have reportedly been damaged in Israel by rockets from Gaza.
Save the Children is deeply concerned about the growing number of children who have lost parents to COVID-19 in India. Desperate pleas to adopt orphaned children have circulated on social media, leaving them vulnerable to trafficking and abuse.