Behind every emergency metric and annual figure is a child, a parent, or a community worker fighting for a better future. Discover their dispatches in their own words.
“When the clean water tanker arrived in our village after two weeks of dried wells, my children could smile again. It gave us life when everything else seemed lost.”
Our flagship review of childhood in 2026 finds the number of children living in active conflict areas has risen for the eleventh consecutive year — and sets out ten policy shifts that would reverse it.
Field assessments from our teams describe families rationing water between drinking, cooking and washing — with children bearing the health consequences first.
After floods destroyed her school, a twelve-year-old in central Malawi helped her teachers set up a temporary learning space. Six weeks later, attendance was higher than before.
The emergency phase is over and the cameras have gone. We look at what is left to do in the districts worst hit by last spring's monsoon flooding and landslides.