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Save the Children UK’s 2018 Annual Report is here
In May, Save the Children marked our Centenary by launching the Stop the War on Children campaign. The campaign is a response to the desperate plight of...
Orphanages are not the solution
Back in 2016 I wrote a blog about why Save the Children doesn’t support volunteering in orphanages and why we are concerned about the growing trend in...
Time to flood Kenya with kangaroos and save premature babies
Victor Hugo said, “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” That time has come for a life-saving approach to looking after babies...
The Prime Minister is right that aid is in the national interest, but that doesn’t mean aid in the national interest is right
The Prime Minister has opened her tour through South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya with a keynote speech, setting out the UK’s bold vision for a new UK-Africa...
How World Cup fever cemented my belief in UK aid
For me the World Cup was more than football. It seemed to say something about us as a country.
Call the boda boda driver!
In Western Kenya, to help pregnant women get to health facilities for their check-ups and when they go into labour, we needed to develop a system where trust...
“These children deserve a chance to live”
On the frontline of the fight against pneumonia
Jedidah’s one of life’s heroes. She’s battled pneumonia in her professional and personal lives and arrives for work early every day as our Emergency...
Thousands of mums and children in Kenya malnourished
New research shows that nearly 73,000 children in Kenya are severely malnourished. The situation is life-threatening - they need aid urgently. On top of this,...
Celebrating the role of midwives!
Today, International Day of the Midwife celebrates the essential role that midwives play, all over the world, in assisting women and their newborn during...