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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.

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.

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.

War Child formalises handover of its Ukraine "Can’t Wait to Learn" learning platform to Ukraine government

Rebuilding safety and childhoods in Gaza: Kareem’s story

In contexts of war, access to education is often one of the first things children lose, and one of the most vital to restore. Beyond learning, education provides children with stability, routine, and a pathway to recovery. In Gaza, children and their families are being supported not only to return to learning, but to rebuild a sense of safety, confidence, and hope. This is the purpose of War Child's project Reconnecting to Education implemented by a local partner in Gaza, with support from READ Foundation.

Three years on, children in Sudan don’t know a life without conflict

Sudan is not a forgotten crisis; it is an unspoken one. After three years of ongoing conflict, the country remains one of the worst places to be a child, and yet the response continues to fall short of what is needed.