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Lebanon: Over 380,000 children predicted to face crisis‑levels of hunger
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) project that a quarter of the population of Lebanon - 1.24 million people – with 366,000 additional people, including 113,000 more children, will face crisis‑level food insecurity or worse in coming months.
Report: 15 years since devastating famine, Somalia faces new disaster - drought without aid
In a new report, When Aid Disappears, Childhood Disappears Too, Save the Children reveals how the collapse of international aid funding to Somalia in 2025 may soon lead to catastrophic outcomes for children not seen since the 2011 famine, which killed over 257,000 people.
VANUATU: New climate-resilient classroom opens after fundraising boost from adventurers
The opening of the classroom comes at a time when climate extremes have become more frequent and intense, along with events like sea levels rising and desertification, posing immediate risks to children’s rights, including their right to health, and protection.
UNIQLO Announces Five New Designs for PEACE FOR ALL Charity T‑Shirt Project
The following announcement is from UNIQLO. Save the Children is one of the donation recipients of the PEACE FOR ALL initiative.
Available from June 19: New T-shirts Featuring Messages of Peace, with Designs from Director Sofia Coppola, Actor Ke Huy Quan, and the Displacement Film Fund. Total Donations Reach 3 Billion Yen as Worldwide Sales Top 10 Million T-shirts.
Global apparel retailer UNIQLO today announces the worldwide release of new designs for its ongoing PEACE FOR ALL charity T-shirt project, available from Friday, June 19. Thanks to widespread support from customers since the project’s launch in 2022, more than 10 million T-shirts have been sold worldwide, with total donations reaching 3 billion yen, as of the end of March 2026. All profits from sales of PEACE FOR ALL T-shirts are donated to charity partner organisations.
Lebanon: A week since temporary ceasefire, more than one million people still displaced as drones continue to hover
Whilst an extension of the ceasefire has been agreed, children still cannot tell the difference between the sound of thunder and bombs, as families are too afraid to return home.
Aid cuts threaten Zimbabwe’s malaria gains, with cases and deaths surging – Save the Children
As of mid-April, Zimbabwe had recorded over 65,000 malaria cases in 2026, nearly double as many malaria cases compared to the same period in 2025, with 174 deaths already — nearly double the number for 2025.
Rohingya boat departures nearly double this year as aid cuts and insecurity force families out of camps
The worrying increase comes ahead of the region’s annual monsoon season, which brings heavy rains and winds, and puts refugees fleeing by boat at heightened risk of capsize on choppy seas.
Cases of measles surge in conflict zones amid vaccine misinformation and cuts to international aid
Cases of measles increased over 25% in conflict zones last year, amid attacks on health care, aid cuts, vaccine misinformation, and disruption to health systems .
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