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MYANMAR: MORE THAN 40,000 PEOPLE, INCLUDING CHILDREN, LIVING IN SHELTERS ONE MONTH AFTER EARTHQUAKE
Toronto, April 24, 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 for them to return to their homes or start repairs, Save the Children said.
AID CUTS THREATEN THE LIVES OF 110,000 CHILDREN WITH SEVERE MALNUTRITION RELIANT ON EMERGENCY TREATMENT FROM SAVE THE CHILDREN
Toronto, April 23, 2025 – At least 110,000* severely acutely malnourished children supported by Save the Children in 10 countries could be left without access to life-saving ready-to-use emergency food and nutrition programmes as aid cuts hit supplies in coming months, according to a Save the Children analysis.
PRESS STATEMENT - “LET US DO OUR JOBS”: CEOS OF MAJOR AID GROUPS IN GAZA WARN AID SYSTEM IS COLLAPSING
Toronto, April 17, 2025 - After 18 months of war, a staggering toll on civilians and aid workers, and now a six-week total siege, the humanitarian aid system in Gaza is facing total collapse with the CEOs of 12 major aid organisations making an urgent plea: let us do our jobs.
A new humanitarian access survey of 43 international and Palestinian aid organisations working in Gaza found nearly all of them – 95% – have had to suspend or dramatically cut services since the ceasefire ended one…
FAMILIES FLEEING ATTACKS IN SUDAN’S ZAMZAM CAMP ARRIVE INJURED, TRAUMATISED, WITH NOTHING TO EAT
Toronto, April 16, 2025 – Thousands of families have arrived injured, traumatized and with no food or water in the town of Tawila after journeys of up to 70km (40 miles) on foot to flee attacks in Sudan’s Zamzam and Al Shouk camps, Save the Children said.
Many of the new arrivals, including thousands of children, were already severely malnourished as people in Zamzam – the largest camp for internally displaced people in Sudan - have been living in famine-like conditions…
OVER 400,000 CHILDREN IN SYRIA AT RISK OF MALNUTRITION FOLLOWING AID CUTS
Toronto, April 16, 2025 – More than 416,000 children in Syria are now at significant risk of severe malnutrition following the sudden suspension of foreign aid that forced the closure of one third of Save the Children’s life-saving nutrition activities across the country.
SUDAN: ONE CHILD EVERY 10 SECONDS FORCED TO FLEE THEIR HOME SINCE CONFLICT BEGAN TWO YEARS AGO
Toronto, April 15, 2025 – One child every 10 seconds on average has been forced to flee their homes since the conflict began in Sudan two years ago, according to new analysis from Save the Children.
Sudan was already facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises before conflict erupted in the capital, Khartoum, in April 2023, and the country is now facing the largest child displacement crisis globally, with over 6.5 million children uprooted from their homes [1] [2]. More…
INGOs IN SUDAN CONDEMN THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS AND AID WORKERS IN ZAMZAM CAMP, ABU SHOUK AND AL FASHER
Toronto, April 13, 2025. The Sudan INGO Forum is outraged by the brutal killing of civilians
and nine aid workers in ZamZam camp, Abu Shouk camp and Al Fasher, North Darfur.
SOUTH SUDAN: CHILDREN WITH CHOLERA DIE ON THREE-HOUR WALK FOR TREATMENT AFTER AID CUTS SHUT LOCAL HEALTH CLINICS
Toronto, April 9, 2025 – At least five children with cholera in South Sudan have died on an arduous journey to seek medical treatment, after aid cuts forced their local health services to close in the middle of a major outbreak of the deadly disease, Save the Children said.
