- Education
War Child Alliance and Can’t Wait To Learn sign joint letter calling for urgent action to protect and increase education financing
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VOICE network reacts to European Union’s new humanitarian aid policy
European humanitarian NGO network VOICE (Voluntary Organisations in Cooperation in Emergencies) reacts to the joint communication on the European Union’s new humanitarian aid policy.
- Advocacy
Governments named main perpretators of grave violations against children for first time in 30 years as record numbers of children affected
War Child responds to the UN Secretary-General's Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict for 2025.
- Mental health and psychosocial support
The power of play: an evidence-based approach to supporting children’s development
This International Day of Play, we speak with Yara Sleiman, Research Coordinator at War Child, about the transformative role of play in children’s mental health, behaviour, and development, and how evidence-based research is reshaping the way we understand its importance.
- Advocacy
Amplifying youth voices at the United Nations Children and Armed Conflict Conference
Last month, War Child accompanied a group of four youth advocates to an international conference on Children and Armed Conflict in Malta where they designed and hosted their own session. The youth presented recommendations of over 100 child and youth participants from War Child’s VoiceMore programmes in Colombia and Uganda to UN Member States, agencies, and civil society.
- Mental health and psychosocial support
Combining self-regulation and poverty reduction to prevent depression and anxiety among adolescents experiencing multi-dimensional poverty in Colombia, Nepal and South Africa: study protocol of a pilot 4-arm cluster randomised controlled trial
Poverty is associated with depression and anxiety among adolescents, but evidence of interventions that prevent adolescent depression and anxiety among adolescents living in poverty is weak. Interventions either focus on reducing poverty or addressing depression and anxiety, but an approach that combines both may offer larger benefit.
- Mental health and psychosocial support
‘Sawa Aqwa’ (StrongerTogether): A multi‐site randomized controlled trial of a brief family systemic intervention for adolescent mental health in Lebanon
There are no evaluated family-based mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) interventions for adolescents in Southwest Asia (known as the Middle East), and few whole-family interventions in low- and middle-income countries, despite consistent evidence for the impact of family support on mental health and well-being. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief family systemic mental health intervention, deliverable by non-specialists in mental health.
War Child colleague Lina Alhaj elected to the CHS Alliance Board
War Child is delighted to share that Lina Alhaj has been elected to the CHS Alliance Board, representing War Child in this important global space.
Three Months On: War Child’s Response to the war in Lebanon
As the Middle East crisis enters its fourth month, War Child and our partners, Alawite Islamic Charity Association (AICA), Development for People and Nature (DPNA), The Lebanese Organization for Studies and Training, and Nusaned continue to reach displaced families across Lebanon amid ongoing hostilities and a deeply unsafe environment for children.
