Save the Children Responds to
East Africa's Food Crisis
Save the Children is provide life-saving help to children and families in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia whose lives are at risk due to severe food shortages. The UN has called this East Africa's worst drought in 60 years.
Millions of children are in danger of becoming critically malnourished due to severe droughts in the region. Save the Children is already on the ground saving lives. We're rapidly providing food, water, medicine and crucial support to families who have lost their incomes.
Save the Children Responds to Conflict-affected
Children and Families in Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia
The post-electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire has sparked a major humanitarian crisis. Over 1 million people are displaced from their homes, of whom at least 500,000 are believed to be children. Some 122,000 people from Côte d’Ivoire had crossed into Liberia as of March 31 – often after an exhausting trek through the brush with little food or water. Save the Children is issuing a global appeal for $40 million in new support to meet the immediate needs of 650,000 displaced and refugee children and families affected by the crisis. Click HERE to read more… |
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| Marie and son Michael eat a meal provided by a Liberian host family. She fled her village in the Côte d’Ivoire with only her son and the clothes on her back, and was lost in the brush for several days before reaching the border and reuniting with her family. Save the Children photo. | |
Save the Children Responds to Earthquake-Affected
Children & Families in Japan
The news out of Japan remains grim since the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and deadly tsunami that struck on March 11, 2011. Relief efforts continue to be hampered by the ongoing nuclear crisis, supply shortages and frigid temperatures. Save the Children carried out an exploratory mission north of hard-hit Sendai and found children living in desperate conditions.
Save the Children Has Taken the Following Actions:
- Save the Children has committed to a three-year effort that will address children's immediate and longterm needs.
- Our relief efforts will focus on Miyagi and Iwate Prefecture – two of the hardest-hit areas in terms of displaced persons and the scale of infrastructure damage.
- 12 Child Friendly Spaces, in a planned network of these critical services, have been opened and are operational across Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures; three additional sites have been secured and activities will begin in the next few days.
- Save the Children is working closely with the Prefecture Government Emergency Response Coordination teams to identify unmet needs and to distribute basic items to supplement the Government's response.
- We have distributed a range of relief goods, including warm clothes and blankets, in five locations in Ishinomaki City reaching 615 beneficiaries.
- We are procuring 5,500 back-to-school kits for primary students who have lost everything.
- We will be distributing 500 hygiene kits.
- We have partnered with the Miyagi Child Network which will provide volunteers to assist with running the child-friendly spaces.
- Save the Children continues to identify partners, relief agencies, and authorities in and around the impact zone in order to assess the services available and to efficiently meet the needs of children and families.
Save the Children has opened the first child-friendly space in Japan, protective environments where children can gather to play and share their experiences under the supervision of trained, caring adults. Click HERE to read more...
