Save the Children

South Sudan: Sixth Year of Flooding Deepens One of World’s Worst Hunger Crises

MABAN, South Sudan (Oct. 2, 2025)—The sixth year of flooding in South Sudan combined with aid cuts is exacerbating one of the world’s worst hunger crises with newly arrived refugees fleeing conflict ...
Save the Children

Government Shutdown and Rescission of Foreign Assistance Puts Children at Risk

WASHINGTON (October 1, 2025) — Save the Children and Save the Children Action Network (SCAN) today expressed deep concern about the U.S. government shutdown and the rescission of approximately $4.9 ...
Save the Children

Federal Funding Freeze Jeopardizes Essential Learning Programs for Children

WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 8, 2025) — Save the Children and its advocacy arm, Save the Children Action Network (SCAN), are deeply concerned about the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to withhold ...
Save the Children

Sudan: Sharp Rise in Attacks on Healthcare After Two Years of Conflict with 1,000 People Killed this Year

PORT SUDAN, (July 03 2025) – Nearly 1,000 people have been killed so far this year in Sudan while seeking health care or visiting loved ones in hospital, with attacks on hospitals nearly tripling ...
Save the Children

Afghanistan: Surge in Arrivals from Iran with about 80,000 Children Crossing the Border in June

KABUL, (July 2, 2025) – About 80,000 Afghan children crossed into Afghanistan from Iran in June, as total arrivals more than doubled compared to May, pushing an already overstretched system to the ...
Save the Children

Surge in Number of Children Facing Sexual Abuse as They Flee DRC to Burundi with Aid Cuts Reducing Support

The following contains descriptions of child sexual assault and rape, which may be deeply distressing or triggering for some readers. BUJUMBURA, (June 23, 2025) – The number of children reporting ...
Save the Children

Education Spending in Pakistan Hits New Low with More than One in Three Children Out of School

ISLAMABAD (June 19, 2025) — Government spending on education in Pakistan has fallen to a new low in the past year despite being declared a national emergency with 26 million children - or more than ...
Save the Children

Acute Malnutrition Soars in South Sudan with Millions of Children at Risk Following Aid Cuts

JUBA, (Friday, June 13, 2025) – A deadly mix of conflict, climate change, and poverty has pushed 2.3 million children aged under 5 in South Sudan into life-threatening acute malnutrition, with rates ...
Save the Children

Afghanistan: One in Five Children Facing Crisis Levels of Hunger as Funding Cuts Reduce Food Aid

KABUL, (June 5, 2025) - About one in five children in Afghanistan could face crisis levels of hunger before October, with funding cuts reducing the amount of food aid available for families, Save the ...
Save the Children

Save the Children Working to Meet Kentucky Kids’ Most Urgent Needs in Wake of Catastrophic Tornado

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (May 18, 2025) — After a deadly tornado swept through rural, eastern Kentucky this weekend, taking lives and leaving nearly 50 miles of destruction in its wake, Save the Children is ...
Save the Children

In Gaza, Nearly Every Single Child is at Risk of Famine

GAZA (May 12, 2025)—The lives of the 1.1 million children in Gaza are urgently threatened by spiraling acute food insecurity as new data from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) ...
Save the Children

MYANMAR: More than 40,000 people, including children, living in shelters one month after earthquake – Save the Children

YANGON, 24 April 2025 - More than 40,000 [1] people are living in tents and other makeshift shelters one month after Myanmar's devastating earthquake with ongoing seismic activity making it impossible ...