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VANUATU: Families find climate-smart ways to grow crops 18 months on from cyclone devastation
Families in Vanuatu are adopting climate-smart agricultural techniques such as growing climate resistant crops to prepare for future climate-driven disasters in the wake of devastating Tropical Cyclone Lola 18 months ago.
AID CUTS THREATEN THE LIVES OF 110,000 CHILDREN WITH SEVERE MALNUTRITION RELIANT ON EMERGENCY TREATMENT FROM SAVE THE CHILDREN
In 2025, Save the Children aims to treat 260,000 children for severe acute malnutrition at outpatient sites in 10 countries that are now experiencing therapeutic food shortages.
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Save the Children deeply saddened by the death of Pope Francis
Save the Children is deeply saddened by the death of Pope Francis, who tirelessly advocated for children and young people throughout his pontificate.
Nearly 50,000 Afghan children pushed out of Pakistan in first two weeks of April
The children form part of a surge of returnees, with 84,000 people crossing into Afghanistan in recent weeks, adding to a total of about 940,000 people – including about 545,000 children – who have now returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan since September 2023.
“LET US DO OUR JOBS” — CEOS OF MAJOR AID GROUPS IN GAZA WARN AID SYSTEM IS COLLAPSING
A new humanitarian access survey of 43 international and Palestinian aid organisations working in Gaza found nearly all of them – 95% – have had to suspend or dramatically cut services since the ceasefire ended one month ago on 18 March, with widespread and indiscriminate bombing making it extremely dangerous to move around.
OVER 400,000 CHILDREN IN SYRIA AT RISK OF MALNUTRITION FOLLOWING AID CUTS
Data compiled by a group of humanitarian organisations operating in Syria shows that in nearly half of the country’s districts, more than 50% of children under five with severe acute malnutrition are not receiving the treatment they need. Malnutrition cases in Syria have been rising for years, but funding cuts have exacerbated an already dire situation.
Families fleeing attacks in Sudan’s Zamzam camp arrive injured, traumatised, with nothing to eat – Save the Children
Thousands of families have arrived injured, traumatised and with no food or water in the town of Tawila after journeys of up to 70km (40 miles) on foot to flee attacks in Sudan’s Zamzam and Al Shouk camps, Save the Children said.
SUDAN: ONE CHILD EVERY 10 SECONDS FORCED TO FLEE THEIR HOME SINCE CONFLICT BEGAN TWO YEARS AGO
To mark two years of the conflict, Save the Children commissioned Sudanese illustrator Shiroug Idris – who was herself displaced by the conflict - to highlight the impact of conflict on children’s lives.
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