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A little girl in a pink top and shorts is playing with a make-shift bucket and string in a yard outside.

What children hurt in conflict zones actually need - and how Save the Children helps

Emergency surgery is only the beginning. For children injured in conflict, the road to recovery is long, complex and often impossible to navigate alone. Here's what they really need - and what Save the Children is doing about it.

Edited Ali, 13, Child injured in a blast, Gedaref, Sudan

What really happens to children caught in conflict

Bombs and explosions don't just injure children in the moment - they change the course of their entire lives. Here's what the reality looks like, and what Save the Children is doing about it.

Emergency Health Unit Nurse Becky Platt attends to Ahmed* (10) at a hospital in the Gaza Strip

How Save the Children is helping children in Gaza right now

More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, and thousands more are living with life-changing injuries. Here's what Save the Children is doing on the ground - and how you can help.

A Save the Children supported worker called Patience hugs 10-year-old Chouchou*, 10, by the river in Kasai, DRC. Both Chouchou and Patience are smiling at the camera.

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She'd never been to school. Then a teacher carried her there.

When Chouchou was one year old, she lost her leg in conflict. For years, she stayed home while other children walked to school. Then a teacher changed everything. Read her story.

Emily with newborn baby Blessing, three days old

Every Mother Deserves to Survive the Day She Gives Life

This Mother's Day, spare a thought for the millions of women around the world for whom pregnancy and childbirth are still a matter of life and death — and what the UK can do about it.

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Changing the story on child poverty | Ollu’s story

Save the Children and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation are working together to understand public attitudes to child poverty in Scotland. Our project, Changing the Story, is using survey-based and qualitative research to generate new evidence about what the public think. We will use this evidence to build support for action to end child poverty in Scotland. 

At the centre of Changing the Story, a group of parents and carers with lived experience of poverty are helping to inform and…

Sophie, nine, and Bethan, three, in their garden in Cardiff

The two-child limit is ending - here's what it really means for families

From April 2026, the UK government is scrapping the two-child limit on Universal Credit. Find out what changes, who benefits, and why experts call it the most impactful step to cut child poverty in a decade.

Families behind the two-child limit

How removing the two-child limit to benefits will help children and families

The two-child limit to benefits will be removed from April 2026. Here's how it will improve the lives of children and their families in the UK.