A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, children across the world have lost an average of 74 days of education each due to school closures and a lack of access to remote learning – more than a third of the standard global 190-day school year.
Save the Children carried out a global study to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted children’s health, nutrition, learning, wellbeing, protection, family finances, and poverty - and to identify the needs of children and their families.
Im Jahr 2020 stellten in der Schweiz aufgrund der Covid-19-Pandemie weniger Personen einen Asylantrag als in den Vorjahren. Anlässlich der heute veröffentlichten Asylstatistik warnen wir vor einem Trugschluss und fordern einen Ausbau statt eines Abbaus von Betreuungsstrukturen für geflüchtete Kinder.
A fluctuating number of around 50 migrant children are sleeping rough in Bosnia and Herzegovina without any support and protection, putting their health and wellbeing at risk, warns Save the Children. They are staying outside in the freezing cold or in squats, empty buildings and in private residences without supervision of an adult.
The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic hit the poorest children the hardest - a lost generation of children is threatening to grow up. But just 330 Francs per child would be enough to enable the poorest to go back to school - this is what our calculations show.
Malnutrition as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic is increasing the risk of death among children worldwide: more than 150 additional children per day could die from malnutrition over the next two years unless action is taken quickly, our new report shows.
Adrian Förster is CEO of Save the Children Switzerland for 100 days now. In the following interview, he reveals how he has experienced this time, how leadership also works in times of home office, and how 2021 is setting the course for the coming years.
The COVID-19 crisis has put the world on the brink of a nutrition crisis, Save the Children warned in a new report today, with pandemic-related malnutrition projected to kill an average of 153 children a day over the next two years if action is not taken.
Nina Hössli, Head of projects in Switzerland, explains in an interview how we reach children in Switzerland despite Covid-19 and what role a quarantine box plays in this.
An estimated 11 million children under five are facing extreme hunger or starvation across eleven countries in Africa, the Caribbean, Middle East and Asia, new analysis by Save the Children reveals.