The UK Aid Strategy, published in 2015, made it a stated goal of the Government to increase the proportion of the aid budget spent by departments other than...
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TO EDUCATE REFUGEES
This year we could unlock education’s unique power to help refugees – but only if we know exactly how we are going to do it and where the money is going to...
How a sense of community is helping children in Wales
This blog was written by Natalie Johnson, Programme Manager for Save the Children in Wales Read the blog in Welsh here. Recently I came across some What Katy...
Rainbows, rats and reclaiming our history: how Save the Children stands with LGBT children and families
As part of LGBT History month in February, Save the Children’s LGBT+ Allies group ran a session on ‘The Secret Gay History of Save the Children’. Turns...
An Open Letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres for the Children of Yemen
Below is the full text of the open letter that Save the Children, together with 23 other civil society organisations, sent to UN Secretary-General António...
Gaza’s Children
As the ongoing crisis in my native Gaza has hit the headlines, I have found myself thinking of Gaza’s children who have been hard hit by the latest Israeli...
The other new Dr WHO
This year’s World Health Assembly will be different. It will be the first one hosted by the new Director-General of the WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus....
We’ve made progress, but we must keep pushing for a negotiated peace in Yemen
On the third anniversary of the conflict in Yemen, Save the Children campaigners from around the country came together to deliver a petition of over 61,000...
To have or not to have UHC, that is the challenge
Yes, the UK's National Health Service could be improved, but at the end of the day a patient can get all the care required without indebting the family. That's...
Over 1000 children injured in Gaza border protests’ deadliest day
The number of child casualties of the Gaza border protests has risen to over 1,000 after one of the most violent days yet. A 14-year-old boy was reportedly...