September 2018 Monthly Newsletter

 

Dear Supporter,

Yemen is the world’s worst crisis facing children today. As the child death toll reaches well into the thousands, Save the Children has scaled up our humanitarian response to a Category 1 – the highest level of need.

Renewed attacks on the port-city of Hodeidah and blockages of urgent supplies has brought the total number of children at risk of famine to 5.2 million, with a total of 11.3 million children in need of humanitarian assistance, including healthcare. 

Our field teams are meeting children who have suffered severe and life-changing injuries caused by explosive weapons, from airstrikes to landmines. Treating these injuries is particularly challenging in Yemen, where the health system has all but collapsed, prosthetics are hard to come by and there are few surgeons trained to treat traumatic injuries.

Yemeni children are going hungry and thirsty, being forced from their homes, missing school, or are facing the risk of abuse, exploitation, injury and death. With your support, we’re working to help those most urgently in need.

We’re also asking the Canadian government to use its voice to defend international humanitarian law and be clear that violations against children will not be tolerated. When girls and boys are targeted and killed or when hunger is used as a weapon of war, Canada must without exception, speak out and do everything in its power to hold those responsible to account.

One key first step is for warring parties to end the use of explosive weapons in populated areas so children aren’t at risk of death or injury as they go about their daily lives.

Responding to Typhoon Mangkhut in the Philippines

More than 4 million people in the northern Philippines have been devastated by Super Typhoon Mangkhut; nearly 2 million are children. As the clean-up continues, the need becomes more urgent for food, clean water and materials to rebuild homes and schools.

With your support, our teams are working around the clock to deliver aid to children and their families, including hygiene items,

water purification tablets, and plastic sheeting for temporary shelter. For children especially, being out of school for these extended periods of time can negatively impact their learning trajectory. Rebuilding schools is a priority for communities to restore normalcy in the lives of so many children. Save the Children has a long history of responding to typhoons and other disasters in the Philippines, including Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, Typhoon Koppu in 2015 and Typhoon Haima in 2016. We’ve been present in the country for nearly 40 years.

Celebrating Girls Everywhere  

October 11th is International Day of the Girl and thanks to your generous support, we’re helping the hardest to reach girls around the world. At Save the Children, we’re committed to a world where all children can build a better future for themselves. As girls are facing incredible barriers, from education and protection to healthcare, our programming ensures girls can realize equally all their rights. Gender equality is at the core of our programming, ensuring all girls and boys have access to opportunities, for a chance at a better tomorrow.

Ride4Kids with GSK

Save the Children staff and GSK employees celebrated at the finish line of the 1000km Ride4Kids event. Ride4Kids is a GSK employee-led fundraising initiative in support of Save the Children’s work globally, and in Canada, to deliver programs and improve children’s lives and their right to survive, learn, and be protected.

GSK riders, two Save the Children staff members and a Save the Children board member, took to the route over 6 days, crossing the finish line in Mississauga on September 18.

This year’s Ride4Kids started from Ste-Foy, Quebec and finished at GSK’s Mississauga site with a fundraising target of $70,000. They blew way past that goal, raising nearly $100,000.

 

Support Save the Children

Children continue to need our help, today more than ever. Children are being exposed to extreme violence and natural disasters. Together with your help, we are reaching even the hardest-to-reach children around the world. Please give today and help the world’s most vulnerable children heal from trauma, get access to food and fresh water, and have safe places to live and play.

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