Families in Tonga are at risk of exposure to unsafe air and water due to ash and smoke from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano that erupted yesterday, reports Save the Children. Satellite images indicate that the eruption has emitted a 5 km-wide plume of ash,...
70-year-old Shamsuddin lost his home in the fire. Photo credit: Rubina Hoque Alee/Save the Children. About 750 children have been left homeless in what is already this year’s second fire to tear through Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Save the...
Number of children in desperate need of aid surges by 3.4 million in the past year Zabi*, 29, with one of her 3-month-old twin daughters, Afghanistan. Two in three – or more than 13 million – children in Afghanistan are in desperate need of life-saving aid, according...
By-line: Claire Leigh, Director of Global Policy, Advocacy & Research, Save the Children People the world over are hoping that the bells ringing in 2022 will herald the start of a better era after two years of a global pandemic that has decimated economies, tested...
At least 4.1 million children have been affected by the super typhoon which hit the Philippines yesterday, causing widespread devastation across the Eastern and Central Visayas, and Northeast Mindanao regions of the country. Typhoon Rai – the strongest to hit the...
