At the first ever global forum on pneumonia, leading agencies including Save the Children and UNICEF are meeting to boost efforts in the fight against the disease. This comes after new analysis from Johns Hopkins University found that nine million lives could be saved by scaling up the fight against the childhood pneumonia. PNEUMONIA DEATHS […]

I very much hope you and your loved ones are safe, healthy and coping with the big changes coronavirus has brought into our lives. I wanted to take this opportunity to update you on how Save the Children is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Our organisation, like every organisation, business, and household in the UK, […]

If you want a window on the condition of children in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, there is no better vantage point than the Katanga health centre in the impoverished northern state of Jigawa. In a makeshift hut that passes for a nutrition clinic, a group of 25 women wait with their children. Tiny bodies bearing […]

We are living through extraordinary times. In the space of a few short months the Coronavirus pandemic has spread to almost every country in the world, bringing grief, suffering, and economic chaos in its wake. In the UK our National Health Service, and everyone working in it, has come under enormous pressure. Recession and the […]

We are all struggling to come to terms with the scale, severity and global reach of the Coronavirus pandemic.  At this critical juncture, I wanted to briefly set out how Save the Children is responding to what is the gravest humanitarian challenge in our organisation’s history. When we were founded 100 years ago, countries around […]