Save the Children Action Network is the political voice for kids. 

213 million children need humanitarian support to survive – and world leaders are turning their backs. Please, demand protection for these precious, innocent lives.

John, 

On World Humanitarian Day, we stand in solidarity with children enduring relentless war, ruthless suffering, and extreme deprivation, as well as frontline responders working every day to save their lives, while risking their own.  

But instead of stepping up, governments – like our own – are slashing child-focused humanitarian assistance and backing away from their moral responsibility. They are making it more difficult for children to survive and for humanitarians to reach them. 

Funding for child-focused humanitarian assistance has been gutted.  

Food, water and medicine are being withheld for political leverage.  

Humanitarian staff on the ground are being injured and killed at unprecedented rates. 

Civilians are being treated like pawns. But they’re not pawns. They’re people. They’re children and families. 

People like 2-year-old Bashir* in Sudan. At just 2 months old, he was severely malnourished – burning with fever and too weak to cry.  

“Five of my babies died before this,” said his mother, terrified. “They all passed in the first few weeks because I had no milk.” 

Thanks to humanitarian aid and those who provide support, this time was different. Urgent treatment, nutrition support and guidance from a breastfeeding specialist saved Bashir’s life.   

John, hospitals, schools, crops and homes are being destroyed at staggering rates in conflict settings.  

Families are going without food, water and medical care. The sick and wounded are being left behind. Vital infrastructure is crumbling.  

No child should die because help never arrived. And no frontline responder should lose their life while trying to save children. That’s why World Humanitarian Day is more than a moment of reflection – it’s a call to action.

Thanks for speaking up, today and every day.  

Christy Gleason

Executive Director

Save the Children Action Network

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