Children are scared to return home seven days after devastating earthquakes hit the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, making for a very different Christmas this year.

PORT SUDAN, 24 December 2024 – The lives of hundreds of thousands of children are hanging in the balance with new data showing famine has spread to additional areas of Sudan after 20 months of conflict and is likely to expand to five more in North Darfur by May 2025, Save the Children said.

Dolphin Entertainment (NASDAQ: DLPN) proudly announces its latest scripted content project with the acquisition of rights to The Woman Who Saved the Children, an acclaimed biography by award-winning author Clare Mulley. The book, which chronicles the extraordinary life of humanitarian trailblazer and Save the Children founder Eglantyne Jebb, will be brought to life as a feature film under Dolphin’s production banner.

Up to 650,000 children [1] and their families are in danger after Cyclone Chido tore through northern Mozambique, Save the Children has warned.

Save the Children is urging the nation to make the world better with a sweater tomorrow for the charity’s annual Christmas Jumper Day which returns for its 13th year.

As Syria faces a critical turning point with cautious optimism for the future, the needs of children have never been higher with an urgent increase in funding required.

Between 2021 and 2023, the children’s charity provided a total of 5753 grants to UK families in colder months (October to March) compared to 2427 in warmer months.

LONDON, Monday December 9 - New analysis on the quality and quantity of childcare provision in England has revealed that the massive expansion of free childcare currently underway is at risk of not delivering for poorer families, according to a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and Save the Children.

KYIV, 9 December 2024 – The war in Ukraine is taking an increasingly heavy toll on children’s mental health with some developing speech defects and uncontrollable twitching, while others have terrible nightmares and scream in their sleep, according to Save the Children.

Families living in Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp are resorting to desperate measures with some going as far as eating animal feed to survive after four months of famine.

GAZA, 30 November 2024 - It is with profound sadness that we confirm that a staff member of Save the Children was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis today, the second Save the Children colleague killed in Gaza since the war began.

GAZA, 29 November 2024 – About 235,000 children forced from their homes by bombs, bullets and displacement orders in Gaza are facing increasing risk of disease as days of heavy rains flood tents and turn camps into swamps, Save the Children said.

Boosting the financial pledge and constructive engagement on IDA21 are a down payment on the UK's support for multilateralism and international collaboration.

Save the Children welcomes the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah but said that the violence must stop immediately to protect children in Lebanon.

About 130,000 children aged under 10 have been trapped for 50 days in areas in northern Gaza that are almost entirely inaccessible to aid workers and not receiving food.

Experiencing its worst floods in decades, Bangladesh is ranked as the seventh most extreme disaster risk-prone country in the world.

The new target figure of $300 billion a year by 2035 flies in the face of what is needed to tackle this emergency.

New festive Shaun the Sheep animation celebrates Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day

Actress Ashley Jensen has joined a group of schoolchildren on a knitted red carpet in the East Midlands to host an exclusive premiere for Christmas Jumper Day.

We are outraged by the extremely low target of $250 billion per year by 2035 in the latest draft of the COP29 finance agreement.

More than half a million babies have been born in Ukraine since full-scale war broke out 1,000 days ago.

We welcome the Prime Minister's commitment to an 81% emissions reduction by 2035.

711 million children were exposed to extreme heatwaves in the first nine months of this year - the highest number recorded since 1992.

Content creator Shabaz Ali is the latest ambassador to be joining Save the Children UK and will be supporting the charity by running the 2025 London Marathon.

Celebrities urge the nation to swap, buy second-hand or re-wear a pre-loved jumper for Save the Children's annual festive fundraiser, Christmas Jumper Day.

Moazzam Malik, a former senior civil servant and diplomat, has been appointed Chief Executive of Save the Children UK.

Attacks overnight that reportedly killed 50 children in besieged northern Gaza demands international intervention.

$37 million initiative by the Green Climate Fund, the Government of Malawi, and Save the Children and its partners to support a fifth of Southern Malawi's population.

We welcome and support the government’s key international development priorities the Minister for Development, Anneliese Dodds set out today.

Single parent carers, disabled single parents, those with no recourse to public funds and those in education and training are unable to access childcare free hours

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is launching a Middle East Humanitarian Appeal to raise urgent funds for people whose lives are being devastated by conflict.

About 10 million children across four countries in West and Central Africa are currently out of school due to massive regional flooding.

At least 3,100 children aged under five have been killed in Gaza with other under-fives at risk from severe malnutrition.

Virgin Atlantic announces two new partners to support its STEM education programme and disaster relief effort

Death rates from major cholera outbreaks in Sudan and Nigeria have surged to up to three times the global average putting thousands of children at risk.

What we want to say is simple: we never imagined the world would allow this horror to continue for so long, or for Israel to act with such impunity.

Families fleeing violence in Lebanon are struggling to find safety in shelters across the country with at least one million people now displaced.

Children in the south of Lebanon are in grave danger of loss of life, physical harm, and severe emotional distress following a ground incursion of the south of Lebanon.

About 60,000 children have fled into Syria from Lebanon in the past week since hostilities intensified.

Save the Children and the Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action insights into protecting vulnerable communities from climate-related disasters.

Save the Children welcome Keir Starmer's commitment to responsible global leadership at UNGA, but urge this pledge to be matched with action.

At least 21 children are among an estimated 270 people killed, and more than 1,000 injured in Israeli strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon.

The number of children killed or injured by Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank has more than doubled since last October.

15 aid organisations demand international pressure for an immediate ceasefire, arms embargo, and end to Israel’s systematic aid obstruction.

Children in wartorn Sudan are likely to go for days or weeks without food or medicine as key bridge washed away in heavy rains.

Heavy rains in Borno state, Northeast Nigeria have led to the worst flooding in 30 years, affecting at least 239,000 people.

31 organisations call on all UN Member States to take urgent steps to protect people deprived of their liberty across the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel.

Recent heavy rains and floods across West Africa have forced nearly 950,000 people [1], many of them children, from their homes across Mali, Nigeria and Niger.

Leading children's rights organisations tell the Covid Inquiry how UK inequality levels on eve of pandemic meant children in struggling families were hit the hardest.

Thousands of children in eastern Sudan are at risk of cholera following a major outbreak caused by widespread flooding, contaminated water and a decimated health system

Save the Children reacts to drone and missile attacks that killed seven people, including three children, in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.

Save the Children UK, said reports that children had died in the Channel earlier today were deeply upsetting.

This year Shaun the Sheep has taken on a new fleece of life in the hope of encouraging schools and youth groups to sign up and take part in Christmas Jumper Day.

Three in four children in Ukraine are living in constant fear amid an escalating mental health crisis.

The UK Govt has rightly recognised the clear risk that the Govt of Israel is breaking international humanitarian law. But a partial suspension does not go far enough.

A record 766 million children were exposed to extreme heatwaves in the twelve months from July 2023 to June 2024, according to new analysis by Save the Children.

Hundreds of drones and missiles have struck Ukraine in recent hours, with at least four children have injured in the strikes according to local reports.

New displacement orders issued by Israeli authorities have forced another mass movement of families and humanitarian workers from areas in Deir al-Balah.

Nearly 500 unaccompanied and separated children have arrived in Blue Nile and Gedaref states over six weeks as heavy fighting forces more people to flee for safety.

Aid agencies and medical professionals have joined forces to call urgently for a ceasefire to allow life-saving polio vaccinations to be administered to children.