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The International Rescue Committee (IRC), together with consortium partners Plan International and War Child Alliance, and with support from the LEGO Foundation, is launching PlayMatters 3.0, the next phase of a flagship education initiative supporting teachers improve holistic learning and wellbeing through Learning through Play, for pre-primary and primary school children.
Mothers who gave birth during the war in Gaza have shared accounts of extreme suffering – being pregnant with no food, the fear of what bombs will do to their health and the health of their children, walking to hospitals to give birth, and raising newborns in tents.
A renewed ceasefire between the government of Israel and Hezbollah was announced on Friday. According to reports citing the Lebanese Ministry of Health, Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed 83 people and injured a further 141 after the announcement. This is not the first time a ceasefire has been announced followed by continued bombing. Lebanon's children do not need another announcement, they need the killing to stop, and they need someone to be held responsible when it doesn't.
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.
War Child responds to the UN Secretary-General's Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict for 2025.
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.
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.
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.
