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The hidden ingredient to SaveWithStories success

From Meghan Markle to Stephen Fry, Helen Mirren to Ashley Walters - the contributors to Save the Children’s #SaveWithStories campaign is as varied as it is illustrious.

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Children in poor households to soar by up to 86 million due to COVID-19

Without urgent action, the number of children living in monetary poor households across low- and middle-income countries could increase by 11- 15% or 63-86m.
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Arsenal and Save the Children join forces in Jordan

We reached out to our friends at Arsenal and co-created a physical education class which will be broadcast to millions of children isolating at home in Jordan.
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Fighting for breath: time to invest in oxygen delivery systems in India

It’s estimated better access to medical oxygen could reduce childhood pneumonia-related mortality in India by at least 35%.

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Delivering a potential COVID-19 vaccine to the world: understanding the scale of the challenge

If we assume 70% of the world’s people need to be immunised to achieve herd immunity, that means producing vaccines for more than 5 billion people. To put this into context, the global demand for vaccines totalled 3.5 billion doses in 2018.

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Being a force for good in the face of global challenges to the protection of civilians

This week, the UN Secretary-General published his annual report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict. It helps countries like the UK understand what’s really happening in key conflicts.

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Eating away the Covid-19 pandemic

Written by Webster Makombe Whilst the trending phrases during the Covid-19 pandemic are “social distancing” and “self-isolation”, where I am from we are saying “kusiri kufa ndekupi”. A Shona call of desperation which translated into English means “caught in between a rock and a hard place”. The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken the world into a […]

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194 governments unanimously adopt COVID-19 resolution

Save the Children stands behind the World Health Organization and its leadership to drive the global public health response against COVID-19.