Save the Children's Response in Mozambique
Following severe and persistent rainfall across Maputo, Sofala, Inhambane, and Gaza Province, Mozambique is facing a rapidly escalating humanitarian emergency.
Save the Children has launched a multisectoral response, mobilising global and in-country resources, alongside those of our local partners. We have also confirmed deployment of our Emergency Health Unit to reinforce preparedness and help prevent largescale Cholera outbreaks.
As of 29 January 2026, nearly 700,000 people have been affected nationwide, with 75% of them in Gaza Province. More than 78,500 homes have been destroyed or damaged, and at least 392,000 people are displaced. Over 60,800 people are currently sheltering in accommodation centres, many of them in schools. At least 146 schools have been damaged, leaving hundreds of thousands of children facing long term disruption to learning and protection.
This crisis is compounding already severe vulnerabilities. More than 3.5 million people were facing crisis level food insecurity before the floods. We are now seeing a sharp rise in malaria, diarrhoea diseases, and respiratory infections, driven by contaminated water sources and limited access to safe water and sanitation.
With cyclone season continuing until April and forecasts indicating further heavy rainfall in the coming weeks, the risk of deterioration is immediate and increasing. We are acting quickly, but the needs far exceed our current resources.
Your support of Save the Children's Emergency Fund can help us scale our global crisis response and protect the lives and futures of children whenever and wherever their need is greatest.
Vodafone Foundation & Save the Children
Launched in March 2025, Save the Children's partnership with Vodafone Foundation focuses on Children’s Digital Wellbeing - ensuring every child feels safe, confident, and empowered online. Digital wellbeing goes beyond screen time; it’s about equipping children with education, tools, and confidence to make informed choices, regulate emotions, and build healthy relationships with technology.
Learn more about our partnership here.
How your charity donation impacts children
Aisha & Saadia *
At just 2 years old, Aisha* was dangerously malnourished after drought wiped out her family’s livestock.
At a Save the Children acute malnutrition ward in Kenya, she was given life-saving peanut paste and quickly regained her strength. Now 3, Aisha is thriving.
Lana *
Tima* and her family were displaced multiple times as fighting expanded across the Gaza strip. She was terrified about where she would be able to give birth safely.
In April 2024 baby Lana* became the first baby to be born at Save the Children’s new maternity unit in the Gaza Strip.
Tariq & Hana *
Displaced from their village, Tariq* and his 10-month old sister Hana* now live in a tent in northwestern Syria. Where Hana* suffers from severe hunger and malnutrition.
Just £7.28 a month can provide a week of life-saving peanut paste, helping children like Hana* regain their strength.
* Names changed to protect identities.
Why Save the Children?
With children's endless energy and the determination of supporters like you, we're helping create a fairer world. In the UK and around the world, we make sure children keep safe, healthy and learning. With children, for children, we change the future for good.
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Meet Fantastic Fatima*
At just 9 months old, severe malnutrition left Fatima too weak to stand. But with the determination and strength of her mum, she was able to get vital treatment and nutritious food from a Save the Children-supported health centre.
Five months on, she blossomed into a healthy baby - walking and playing with big sister, Fatun*.
With the right support, there are endless opportunities for kids like Fatima. A donation from people like you can help more children like her get the life-saving treatment they need.
* Names changed
The impact of donations
In 2025, the Save the Children movement reached 37.8m children in 92 countries including the UK, thanks to supporters like you.
We helped children survive through our movement's health and nutrition work . We and our partners:
- Tackled pneumonia – the single largest infectious killer of young children worldwide. Inspiring extra global funding, pushing to make vaccines more available and providing oxygen to children struggling to breathe
- Fought undernutrition – supporting community-based work in Kenya, South Sudan, Afghanistan and Yemen to diagnose, treat and prevent malnutrition. Enabling families and caregivers to detect acute malnutrition themselves, vital for those who live hours from the nearest health centre or cannot afford to pay for care
We supported children to learn through our movement's education programme. We worked with communities, partners and governments to:
- Make sure children living in conflicts and emergencies – including refugee children – can get the education they tell us is their number one priority
- Fight for girls’ right to an education and tackle obstacles – such as child marriage – that stand in their way
- Improve learning for children during their crucial early years – around the world and among the UK’s poorest communities – when it can make the biggest difference.
We fought relentlessly to protect children through our movement's protection programmes and spoke up for millions more around the world. We've worked with our partners to help children on the frontline of some of the world’s worst conflicts and in contexts where children are at risk of harm:
- In South Sudan, we supported women’s rights organisations to lead workshops with our humanitarian staff and partners to develop guidelines to make sure they recruit, retain and promote female humanitarian workers.
- In Ukraine, we worked with 27 local partner organisations to give food, water, fuel, heaters and essential supplies like toothbrushes and soap to families who’d fled their homes. Along with helping reunite lost children with their families and set up safe spaces for them to play and recover.
- In Madagascar, we worked to strengthen people’s understanding of child protection and the local systems required to keep children safe from violence, abuse and exploitation.
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