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This blog highlights the significant impact of vaccines on global health. It traces the history of vaccination from Edward Jenner's groundbreaking discovery using cowpox to prevent smallpox, to the ...
130+ NGOs call for immediate action to end the deadly Israeli distribution scheme (including the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) in Gaza, revert to the existing UN-led coordination mechanisms, ...
The Climate Coalition are organising the mass lobby on Wednesday July 9 2025 – they’re a coalition of charities including Save the Children UK, Oxfam, and RSPB. They're the UK’s largest group of ...
Eglantyne Jebb manages to send over 600 tons of aid to children in Russia. In 1921 Save the Children raised considerable funds for refugee children in desperate need. Single donations ranged from two ...
Five tips from a psychologist and child counsellor Children are always the most vulnerable in every conflict. Their lives are at risk. So is their mental health and the potential for long-term trauma.
At the end of May, Save the Children and UNICEF presented estimates of children living in monetary-poor households and looked at various scenarios of how COVID-19 could impact them. Our analysis ...
Every new parent should be able to look forward to the birth of their child, it's an exciting and life-changing time. Most parents will be thinking about if they have enough food, clothing, space in ...
At Save the Children we believe every child has equal rights. Our founders laid the groundwork for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which establishes racial discrimination as a violation of ...
Vaccine-preventable diseases like tuberculosis, measles and pneumonia continue to rank among the top killers of children under age five in developing countries. Each year, nearly 31 million children ...
It has now been seven years since the introduction of two-child limit, or Sibling Tax. This policy is one of the main drivers of rising child poverty in the country, and removing it would be an ...
RAMALLAH, 4 April 2024 – Nearly 26,000 children – or just over two percent of Gaza’s child population - have been killed or injured in Gaza in six months of a war which has decimated the health system ...
Protecting a generation from Covid-19 : An Agenda for Action from Save the Children Coronavirus knows no borders. It is a global threat and our shared humanity demands a global response. New research: ...