A report by the U.N. children's agency UNICEF says 181 million children younger than 5 live in severe food poverty. That's about 27% of the world’s youngest children.

A U.N. children's agency report says 27% of children younger than 5, or 181 million, live in severe food poverty, many of them in Africa.

The South African Early Childhood Review 2024 shows that the situation of young children has worsened since Covid-19. Y oung children in South Africa are more likely to live in poverty, suffer ...

Rwanda has made progress in reducing multidimensional poverty among children, with a decline registered across multiple wellbeing dimensions over the last seven years, according to a new report.

"We have plenty of evidence that indicates that poverty is a key driver of child ... And there's an added benefit: Kids in school often get free meals. In contrast, sub-Saharan Africa has the highest ...

Children from ethnic minority backgrounds and those living in areas with higher levels of child poverty were more likely to ...

About 13 million children in South Africa live in poverty, despite the estimated R700 billion a year investment made by the government, private sector and NGOs to tackle this.

This Mandela Day, the Santa Shoebox Project is drawing attention to this often-overlooked barrier to learning and offering a way for the public to take direct action by pledging Virtual Santa ...

I want to be a doctor so I can fix people. But my uncle says girls in our house don’t go to school for long. They get married.”These words from 9-year-old Hauwa, spoken to me during a recent visit to ...

Help Children in Africa. Save the Children has worked in Africa for more than 60 years, across 20 countries, supporting 6.9 million children.As conflicts across the region escalate, the climate crisis ...

Children from ethnic minority backgrounds and those living in areas with higher levels of child poverty were more likely to ...

The South African Early Childhood Review 2024 shows that the situation of young children has worsened since Covid-19. Young children in South Africa are more likely to live in poverty, suffer from ...