How are we helping children through extreme weather events
As temperatures across the world increase, heatwaves are growing in both frequency and intensity, triggering severe consequences including wildfires, hurricanes and exacerbating droughts leading to health risks.
A record 711 million children, almost one-third of the global child population, were exposed to extreme heatwaves in 2024 - the highest number recorded.
Extreme weather conditions are leading to an increase in:
- Inequalities and food insecurity
- Child hospitalisations
- Respiratory conditions like asthma
- Children’s mental health issues
Your generous donation can provide children and families affected by extreme weather, as well as other disasters across the world, with life-saving essentials like:
- Food
- Water
- Crucial mental health support
Conflict and natural disasters create food insecurity and threaten millions of children's survival and well-being every year - the need is greater now than ever.
Donate now and help children in crisis worldwide.
Build Resilience For Tomorrow
We're also helping communities prepare for what's coming.
Chihuahua, Mexico
Temperatures have been rising across many regions of Mexico. In the state of Chihuahua, a Tarahumara settlement is experiencing the impact of extreme heat more severely, due to limited access to safe drinking water.
Save the Children distributed heatwave response kits to children attending the local learning center. These kits included sunscreen, a sun umbrella, a hat, and oral rehydration solutions.
Bairon, 11 (pictured) smiles while wearing the hat he received in his heatwave response kit.
Solomon Islands
Save the Children is working with local experts to help families set up beekeeping businesses.
The bees pollinate mangrove trees, which grow to form a barrier against increasing storms and high tides.
The mangroves are also carbon sponges, helping in the global fight against climate change.
The bees produce sweet honey for farmers like Alison to sell.
It’s a virtuous circle of lasting change.
Indonesia
Save the Children has helped build a a solar-powered water system in Attika’s community, providing clean drinking water and irrigation for the crops they rely on for food.
And we’re teaching farmers sustainable agricultural techniques.
So they can grow food even in an increasingly extreme climate.
Why Your Donation Matters
For over 100 years Save the Children have fought for a fairer world for children.
Month after month, in the UK and around the world, we make sure children stay safe, healthy and keep learning through the toughest times. Whether they're at risk due to conflict, poverty or the global food crisis we ensure we are there providing vital resources such as food, water, education and mental health support to ease their suffering and help recovery.
We could not do this without our supporters who give a donation every month.
Monthly donations allow us to plan for the long term. To be not just reactive, but proactive in thousands of projects helping children across the world, all designed with one thing in mind: to improve the lives of children.
How Your Donation Can Help
Save the Children’s ambition is a world in which every child has the right to survive, learn and be protected. We were founded on the belief that every child deserves the chance of a future. This belief underpins everything we do.
Together with families, supporters and partners, we work to help every child get the future they deserve - focusing our efforts where the need is greatest.
Your donation could help ensure children:
- Get a healthy start in life: From training midwives through to setting up Emergency Health Units, we work to enable safe birth.
- Learn and go to school safely: Campaigning for marginalized and poverty stricken children, setting up temporary learning spaces and repairing damaged schools in conflicts.
- Protect children from hunger: Our teams provide counselling, breastfeeding support, malnutrition screening, vitamin supplements and cash transfers.
- Grow up in resilient families: Our family tracing team work tirelessly all over the world to reunited children parents and siblings for a lifetime of belonging.
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