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FAIRFIELD, Conn. (May 18, 2025) — After a deadly tornado swept through rural, eastern Kentucky this weekend, taking lives and leaving nearly 50 miles of destruction in its wake, Save the Children is ...
YANGON, 24 April 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 ...
JUBA, (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 ...
YANGON/BANGKOK, (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 ...
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (March 17, 2022)—An Afghan mother agreed to sell her unborn baby as the country's economic crisis forces jobless, debt-stricken parents to abandon their children, Save the Children ...
FREETOWN, (June 21, 2024) – Sierra Leone has passed a historic bill to ban child marriage after girls across the country and Save the Children joined a campaign to criminalize the widespread practice.
ANTANANARIVO (JANUARY 11, 2025) – Families and children in northern Madagascar are bracing for a deadly tropical storm, with fears of massive gusts of winds, violent storms and flooding, which have ...
FAIRIFELD, Conn., February 28, 2025 - Earlier this week, the U.S. government made further cuts to the U.S. foreign assistance budget, announcing that 5,800 of 6,200 USAID awards and 4,100 of 9,100 ...
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Oct. 8, 2024) — As Hurricane Milton churns toward Florida’s west coast, bringing with it life-threatening winds, storm surge and flash flooding, Save the Children is preparing to ...
KINSHASA, (Sept 02, 2024) – Cases of the potentially deadly mpox virus have skyrocketed about 75-fold in children and young people under the age of 19 in the most severely impacted province in the ...
GOMA, (August 12, 2024) – Newborn babies as young as two weeks old are catching the deadly mpox virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 's overcrowded hospitals, Save the Children said, as ...
DELHI, (August 7, 2024) - A series of massive landslides in the hills of India’s southwestern Kerala state have killed more than 385 people,[1] including children, in the past week and forced at least ...