Focussing on children affected by armed conflict, this is a guide to give parents, carers and teachers ideas for creative play and ways of supporting the development of young children. It is based on Save the Children’s experience in the...
This report is based on research with children about how the HIV/AIDS epidemic affects their lives. It is based on research in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand. It focuses on social, economic and other factors that...
43 million children living in countries around the world wrecked by war and armed conflict are being left without the chance to go to school. This report is part of Save the Children’s five-year Rewrite the Future education initiative, which...
Decades of insecurity have strongly affected the children in Afghanistan. Both health and education systems suffer from poor finances, lack of qualified professionals, and security problems. Afghanistan remains extremely poor and children suffer...
Though Angola’s 27-year civil war ended in 2002, the country still ranks as one of the worst places for children to grow up.The debt-ridden government spends much of its budget on food and health, leaving little for education.Save the Children is...
Over 40 countries across the world launched Rewrite the Future, Save the Children’s biggest global campaign in its 85-year history. The research reveals the devastating consequences of armed conflict on education in 30 countries. Schools are...
The quality of education has worsened since the beginning of the civil war in Côte d’Ivoire in 2002. The retention rate is 52 percent and absenteeism of children can be quite high. Children have few opportunities to participate in school...
The devastating Asia tsunami of December 26, 2004, was one of the biggest emergency responses in Save the Children’s history. Two years later, Save the Children continued to stand by hundreds of thousands of children and family members who...
The Regional Emergency Coordination (REC) is a Unique Coordination Model Based on Collaboration, used by Save the Children Agencies working in South America. This document includes the REC general objective together with expected results, working...
Past and present armed conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have badly affected children, and the country has one of the highest number of child soldiers in the world. Forty years of poor governance, economic collapse, exploitation...