Humanitarian

Thursday 12 May 2022

JOINT STATEMENT: STOP THE VIOLENCE AND PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF EVERY CHILD IN SRI LANKA

 

MAY 12, 2022

 

We, the undersigned, a network of child rights and protection organizations, are extremely concerned by the events currently taking place in Sri Lanka.  We condemn all forms of intimidation and acts of violence against children.

Saturday 7 May 2022

STATMENT: Save the Children calls for the safety of children amidst Sri Lanka’s protests.

MAY 7, 2022

Friday 6 May 2022

School meals off the menu for children in Sri Lanka as economic crisis bites

Student prepares to eat their daily school meal.

COLOMBO, 6 May 2022: All of the one million children receiving free school meals in Sri Lanka could go hungry after government funding was reduced as food prices skyrocketed, Save the Children warned today. 

Monday 26 July 2021

Save the Children Humanitarian Assistance for Covid-19 Response supports Ministry of Health to combat the pandemic.

 

PRESS RELEASE:

Save the Children Humanitarian Assistance for Covid-19 Response supports the Ministry of Health to combat the pandemic.

 

July 20, 2021

Thursday 1 June 2017

More than 1.5 million Sri Lankans now affected by weather disasters as drought cripples the north and east, floods ravage the south

Extent of education crisis beginning to emerge after floods

[Colombo, June 1] – The number of Sri Lankans affected by weather-related disasters has hit more than 1.5 million as the nation simultaneously battles crippling drought in the north and east of the island and deadly flooding in the south.

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