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PHILIPPINES: Mount Kanlaon eruption forces 385,000 children out of school
A volcanic eruption in the Philippines has forced at least 684 schools to close.
‘There is a wall between us’: As new school year begins in Thailand, funding shortages hinder education for refugee children on Myanmar border
As Thai children head back to school following a long summer break, a lack of funding has hindered many displaced children from Myanmar.
Floods in Sri Lanka kill 15 people and force four million children out of classrooms
While monsoon rains are normal in Sri Lanka, impacts such as flooding are now more frequent and severe due to climate change
Bonn conference: Number of children in crisis levels of hunger due to extreme weather events doubles in past five years – new analysis
Save the Children’s analysis showed that more than 33 million children and 39 million adults live in both the “crisis” phase 3 of hunger as determined by the IPC
HORN OF AFRICA: 600K CHILDREN AFFECTED BY DEVASTATING FLOODS AS TORRENTIAL RAINS THREATEN FURTHER HAVOC
Devastating floods and landslides have affected about 600,000 children across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia so far this year.
Leaders must take action to protect children in India as country swelters through record-breaking heatwave – Save the Children
Children's health is being tested to the extreme as India grapples with one of its worst heatwaves on record.
Bangladesh: More than 270,000 children homeless after Cyclone Remal batters coastal area
Cyclone Remal tore through south west Bangladesh on 26 May affecting around 3.75 million people
At least 66 people including children killed in four days of attacks on “safe zones” in Rafah
Attacks on ‘humanitarian areas’ highlight fallacy of the claim that civilians are safe anywhere in Gaza
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