War Child Annual Report

Read all the facts, figures and stories behind our work in 14 countries around the world.

The Annual Report and Financial Statement 2024 covers our first year of operations as the Stichting War Child Alliance (WCAF). WCAF was created by five independent organisations who came together to form the War Child Alliance and jointly founded the WCAF to deliver programmes and impact on their behalf.

The creation of a platform of work covering 14 country programmes and leveraging the scientifically proven methodologies developed by the Research and Development team has produced some remarkable results:

We reached a total of 2,239,985 individuals through various activities, including the implementation of Evidence-Based Methodologies (EBMs) by country offices and local partners, as well as the scaling of EBMs by strategic partners.
We achieved an increase in the number of children taking part in War Child programmes of over 100%.
Our income for 2025 was 12% more than we expected in our budgets.

Outside of our organisation the world presented more challenges to children than we have ever seen since the foundation of the first War Child operations in the 1990s.

Along with other NGOS we persisted in delivering services and supporting our partners to respond to extreme violence in Gaza, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ukraine and other conflicts during a year in which it became increasingly obvious that the protection of humanitarian workers, and civilians in general, is a principle that needs to be seriously reinforced by the international community.

The gap between what we should expect to see from responsible countries and what we actually witnessed in 2024 is alarming and cannot continue.