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‘YOUNG CHILDREN SCREAMED IN FEAR’: SAVE THE CHILDREN RESPONDS IN MYANMAR WITH LIFESAVING AID IN EARTHQUAKE AFFECTED AREAS
Toronto, March 30, 2025: Save the Children and its partners are providing lifesaving aid in earthquake affected areas in Myanmar with an immediate need for water, food and health care services for children and their families.
Hospitals and clinics are reportedly overwhelmed with thousands of injured people, and families have been seeking shelter in monasteries, football fields and other open spaces, due to fear of aftershocks. Save the Children is collaborating with partners to respond to the…
AFTER STRONGEST EARTHQUAKE IN A CENTURY, CHILDREN IN MYANMAR AND ON THE THAI-MYANMAR BORDER NEED URGENT HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT
Toronto, March 29, 2025 – Children and families in Myanmar need urgent humanitarian support after the strongest earthquake in a century [1] struck the country, causing widespread damage and casualties with many people still unaccounted for, Save the Children said.
The epicenter of the earthquake lay just outside Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, and with a magnitude of 7.7 was the strongest earthquake recorded anywhere in the world since the quake that hit Turkiye and…
MYANMAR: TWO STRONG EARTHQUAKES HIT SIX REGIONS, COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT IMPACTED AS AID AGENCIES MONITOR DAMAGE
Toronto, March 28, 2025: Save the Children is monitoring the impact of two strong earthquakes which struck Myanmar at about midday local time on Friday.
The earthquake was felt many parts of the country including major cities like Yangon, Mandalay and towns in Magway, Sagaing, and Shan with tremors causing destruction in Thailand and felt elsewhere in the region.
The six impacted regions and state in Myanmar - Sagaing, Mandalay, Magway, Bago, Shan and Naypyidaw - are home of over 28 million…
AID CUTS DISRUPT EDUCATION FOR 1.8 MILLION CHILDREN SUPPORTED BY SAVE THE CHILDREN
Toronto, March 27, 2025 – More than 1.8 million children will miss out on learning due to aid cuts impacting Save the Children’s education programmes in over 20 countries from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Syria to Tanzania.
UKRAINE: MORE CHILDREN KILLED AND INJURED IN PAST FIVE DAYS THAN IN ALL OF JANUARY
Toronto, March 25, 2025 – More children have been killed and injured over the past five days in Ukraine than during the entire month of January, said Save the Children as ceasefire talks come to a close in Saudi Arabia.
HEALTHY DIET NOW UNAFFORDABLE FOR A NEARLY HALF OF WORLD’S CHILDREN: SAVE THE CHILDREN ANALYSIS
Toronto, March 25, 2025 – About 1.12 billion children globally – or 48% of the world’s children – are unable to afford a balanced diet, said Save the Children, releasing new data on the eve of the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) summit in Paris [1 & 2].
Hikes in food prices combined with the increasing cost of living around the world has forced millions of families to eat less adequate, less balanced and less diverse food, putting child development and wellbeing at risk, said the aid agency.…
GAZA: MORE THAN 100,000 CHILDREN TRAPPED IN NORTH GAZA AND AT RISK AS ISRAELI MILITARY OPERATIONS ESCALATE
Toronto, March 20, 2025 – Over 100,000 children are trapped across northern Gaza after Israeli forces cut the area off from the rest of the Strip, with tens of thousands at imminent risk from military ground operations around the town of Beit Lahiya, Save the Children said.
This follows three days of Israeli airstrikes across Gaza that shattered an eight-week pause in hostilities and have caused the deadliest day for children in Gaza. According to Gaza’s Government Media Office…
NEWS STATEMENT FROM SAVE THE CHILDREN PRESIDENT AND CEO DANNY GLENWRIGHT ON THE RESUMPTION OF HOSTILITIES IN GAZA
Toronto, March 19, 2025 - “Israel’s unilateral resumption of hostilities in Gaza is nothing short of a death sentence for Gaza’s children. Once again, the world watches as children face unimaginable horrors - killed, maimed, displaced, starved, and left even more vulnerable to disease and the elements. We cannot stand by as an entire generation is subjected to relentless suffering.
