By Save the Children | Save the Children
Childhood should be a time defined by words like: playground, family, school and innocence.
However, more children around the world than ever before – at least 357 million children – are living, some just barely, in areas affected by conflict. That’s more than the entire U.S. population! Read the new report by Save the Children, The War on Children now.
Globally, nearly 1 in 6 children are experiencing childhoods re-defined – by words like: starving, maiming, violence and war.
And nearly half of these children live in the most dangerous areas of all to be a child – those affected by high-intensity war and conflict, including Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia. In these and other war-torn countries, children are imminently vulnerable to starvation, injury, exploitation and even death.
Thanks to compassionate people like you, Save the Children is there, on the ground every day, working to provide essentials – like food and safety – to children trying to survive these extreme conditions.
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