But we can’t do any of this lifesaving work without your support. Save the Children has worked in Asia for more than 30 years. Already a world leader in child survival, health and nutrition, we are adapting and expanding our programs across Asia, as well as launching innovations, to address children’s needs made worse by this pandemic. Girls in South Asia are disproportionately impacted by the risk of increased child marriage as a result of the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, with an estimated 191,000 being forced into child marriage or expected to become pregnant. In 1960, Jane Goodall ventured into the forests of Africa to be able to see wild animals living without human disturbance. With the COVID-19 pandemic revealing and exacerbating existing inequalities, millions of children living in fragile communities across Asia face an even greater risk.įollowing the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, worsening shortages and rising prices of oxygen were reported in countries with some of highest numbers of child pneumonia deaths, such as India and Bangladesh. Meanwhile, COVID-related school closures have pushed more than 430 million children into remote learning, which is nearly impossible for children in rural areas lacking both internet access and electricity. While extreme events, including cyclones and typhoons, are not new to Asia, the strength and frequency of them continues to strains health care systems and disrupted infrastructure critical to children’s well-being.
Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia have been hit especially hard. Severe drought, coupled with rapidly increasing food prices related to the war in Ukraine, has deepened food insecurity across the Horn of Africa creating a child malnutrition emergency in Africas easternmost region. WHERE: 20 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. A climate-induced disaster: the worst drought in 40 years.
In the Phillipines, multiple record-breaking disasters, including Typhoon Goni and the Taal volcano eruption, threatened the health and safety of children and families like never before. One creative way to raise funds is to pledge your birthday, a campaign in which individuals decide that instead of receiving gifts, friends and family are encouraged to donate to charity:water. In 2014, Pajama Program distributed over 250,000 books and over 250,000 pajama sets to children across the U.S. In 2020, South Asia witnessed one of the heaviest monsoon seasons in years, with two severe cyclons striking Bangladesh and India within just a few weeks of one another. New York-based nonprofit Pajama Program donates new books and pajamas to kids living in group homes, shelters and temporary housing facilities.
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