Funding cuts are putting our lifesaving work under threat. Governments globally are slashing foreign aid budgets that millions of children facing the toughest challenges depend on.
Funding cuts are putting our lifesaving work under threat. Governments across the world are slashing foreign aid budgets that millions of children facing the toughest challenges depend on.
It’s a betrayal of the world’s most vulnerable children. It’s leaving critical funding gaps at a time when 1 in 11 children globally need lifesaving assistance. Children who are trying to survive hunger, conflict and natural disasters.
These cuts mean children will arrive at closed clinics, go without meals, face forced labour or marriage, and suffer trauma alone. The impact is devastating. Foreign aid isn’t just about survival — it’s about hope, peace, and creating pathways to a better future. But when aid is cut, it erodes the progress we’ve made and deepens future crises.
We cannot let this happen. Now, more than ever, children need our collective support to survive today, thrive tomorrow, and build a better world for generations to come.
Our lifesaving work must continue so we can help children survive, learn and be protected. But the funding gaps we’re now facing could force us to close down programmes that are a lifeline to children.
Standing up for children’s rights is our history, present, and future. For over 100 years, we have been dedicated to our mission, working in the toughest, hardest to reach places to support children where they are, ensuring they are safe, healthy, and learning, no matter what.
We have always been among the first to respond to emergencies and have helped secure policy changes that improve children’s lives. We’re proud of what we have achieved alongside children and their communities, our partners and supporters.
We always adapt to change, and the recent cuts in foreign aid don’t change that. While our challenges are huge, our determination to protect children is even greater.
But we cannot do it alone. Together, we can save our lifesaving work. Together, we can save children’s futures.