Afghanistan Update: Crisis Upon Crisis
From conflict to displacement to environmental disaster, Afghan children are enduring it all. Find out how War Child with our partners are supporting earthquake survivors and returnees on the ground.
News and stories
Read the latest news from War Child and the stories of the children and families we support around the world.
We Can't Forget Sudan's Children
War Child’s Emergency Response
612 Million Girls and Women Are Living in Conflict
In war, women and girls suffer most - but when supported, they are often the ones who hold families and communities together.
Millions of children in conflict bear invisible wounds
With the right mental health support they can heal from the trauma of war.
Around the World, Displaced Children are Falling Through the Cracks
Hear about our ambassador Carey Mulligan's experience visiting our programmes in Uganda.
Bringing Education to Syrian Refugee Children in North Lebanon
World Refugee Day 2025
The Urgent Need to Protect Refugee Children in East Africa
World Refugee Day 2025
From destruction to recovery, helping families returning home in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Many have lost everything, their homes looted or destroyed in the fighting.
Friendly Records Raise a Quarter of a Million Pounds for War Child
In 2022, as the war in Ukraine broke out, Tom Friend from Friendly Records in Bristol reached out with a simple question: “What can we do to help?”
Sudan's children deserve more than silence.
Two years since the fighting intensified in Sudan, the country is at breaking point, and its children are paying the highest price.
South Sudan: A Nation on the Brink, and Its Children in the Crosshairs
War Child warn child recruitment could rise.
Better livelihoods, better futures.
War Child’s vocational training programme unlocks a generation in Yemen with UK Aid Match.
