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In recent weeks, we have once again seen what happens when powerful AI tools are released at scale with weak safeguards. People use them to sexualise and humiliate others, and children end up dealing with the consequences.

Smart tech must come with safe choices built-in. AI can bring extraordinary benefits, but no innovation is worth a world where children have to live with the fear that any photo could be weaponised against them. 

In the past year, we’ve seen major cuts to foreign aid budgets by governments around the world, even as global instability deepens. Humanitarian need is rising, while the resources available to meet it are shrinking. In that context, our work, and how we do it, is more vital than ever. In 2026, Save the Children will keep children at the heart of every response. We’ll advocate for their rights and ensure their voices are heard.

In Khartoum’s Karari locality, a neighbourhood restaurant becomes a lifeline each morning. Led by longtime businesswoman Ms. Samia* and her daughter Abeer*, a community-run Emergency Response Room (ERR) kitchen provides hundreds of displaced families with daily hot meals amid Sudan’s ongoing conflict.

As 2026 begins, children face record humanitarian needs after the 2025 global aid funding crisis. Sudden foreign aid cuts exposed the fragility of the humanitarian system, forcing life-saving programmes to scale back amid rising conflict, displacement and hunger. 

In this op-ed, Inger Ashing, SCI CEO, explores how these changes have impacted children whilst also reflecting on the urgent shift towards a more local, resilient and sustainable global aid system.

Jeffrey DeMarco, Senior Technical Advisor, Protecting Children from Digital Harm, at Save the Children UK, shares five tips to help children and families to have an enjoyable and safe experience online.

As traditional funding collapses and crises escalate, businesses bring more than money; they offer innovation, scale, and new models for sustaining aid. But partnerships must be carefully governed to avoid unintended harm. This article was originally published on TRTWorld.

As policymakers across the world grapple with how to keep children safe online, a growing number are recommending age-based social media 'bans' as a tool to help keep children safe. While laudable in intent, at Save the Children, we are concerned that laws banning children’s access to online spaces – particularly if used in isolation – risk creating unintended harms, and a false sense of safety, as well as curtailing the opportunities that online environments offer to children. There are better alternatives.

Save the Children will stop seeking country-level emergency funding managed by UNOCHA from 2026 to open space for local and national actors.