Responding to Humanitarian Crises in 2012...Responding to Humanitarian Crises in 2012 | 3Impact In 2012, we directly reached 11.2 million adults and children with emergency relief,13.88%

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Responding to Humanitarian Crises in 2012

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Whenever disaster strikes, we’re there saving livesMike Penrose, Save the Children International Humanitarian Director

The results are in, our total humanitarian spend for 2012 is over US$463 million, an increase of US$63 million when compared to the previous year. This is remarkable in a year without what we would consider a Category 1 natural disaster.

This figure is something that we can be proud of, and it is proof that our policy of responding to more small and medium sized disasters under the new categorisation system is working.

During the year, as country offices transitioned to Save the Children International management, we faced a host of new and often unforeseen challenges. And in order to overcome these challenges, we are indebted to members for their support, especially in seed funding and surge personnel.

Throughout 2012, we have grown, developed and adapted. We invested in the quality and capacity of our humanitarian work. We recruited leaders in ‘quality and capacity development’ and ‘analysis’ to improve our ability to understand the contexts in which we work. We are confident this will translate into more accountable humanitarian programmes.

Our co-ordinated humanitarian communications, fundraising and advocacy efforts have enabled us to become not only a leading operational agency, but also a leading humanitarian communicator

and advocate for and about children affected by humanitarian crises.

Finally, we have worked to further develop our internal humanitarian response capacity. We have created new job profiles with competency framework and grades that have helped us better select and identify highly qualified humanitarian responders.

Our goal is to be the lead humanitarian organisation for children, by reach and impact and by working in the toughest, most challenging places, to save children’s lives, protect them from abuse, and ensure they keep learning.

As ever in the coming year, numerous challenges face us. However we are used to that and we will continue to build on our successes, evaluate our failures and learn from them, and grow in areas where we need to be bigger, faster and better in impact and reach.

Front image: Marwa, 13, and Mounir, 2. Syrian refugees that have moved into a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. Luca Kleve-Ruud for Save the Children


ImpactIn 2012, we directly reached

11.2 million adults and

children with emergency

relief,13.88% of the affected

populations we worked with.

Expenditure

In 2012 our humanitarian

expenditure across Save

the Children was US$463

million, an increase of

US$63 million since 2011.

Influence“If anyone was in any doubt

about the horrors… just look at

the evidence published by Save

the Children…

If the United Nations Charter

is to have any value in the

21st century, we must now join

together to support a rapid

political transition.”

David Cameron on Syria Prime Minister, UK UNGA | September 2012Rougu, 20, with her 1 year old son, Nouridine in Mauritania. Nouridine is malnourished but with

treatment over the last two weeks at a stabilisation centre he has gained 300 grams. Oscar Naranjo/Save the Children


Over the course of 2012, we worked to incorporate our humanitarian objectives into all sectors of business, enabling us to deliver on our ambitious strategy and continue to develop as THE world’s leading humanitarian response agency for children.

While Save the Children continued to transition, we continued to promote our dual mandate and we supported and prepared country programmes as they went ‘live.’

An essential task of 2012 was to revise our tools and core documents. Our Emergency Categorisation Framework and the Humanitarian Country Priority List were created in order to improve our coordinated efforts and we are providing more relevant information through the weekly operations monitoring tool and monthly dashboards.

Critical revisions were also made to the Humanitarian Global Roster. This year we have agreed that the Roster will be the main mechanism used by teams when requesting surge staff in crises.

Looking ahead, it is our intent to grow the roster numbers to 500 by 2015 and our focus is to increase country level staff representation as well as senior humanitarian professionals and senior technical staff.

We now have a member-led working group tasked to define how Humanitarian Technical Assistance is developed and resourced. Their goal for the coming year

Delivering our ambitious strategy;achievements of 2012An overview of change and growth

A child in an informal settlement for displaced people in Kabul, Afghanistan. Zubair Shairzay / Save the Children

is to define an approach for each humanitarian sector and ensure that this approach lines up with our Global Initiatives.

In order to provide quality political and situational analysis to country offices and members we established the Humanitarian Affairs Unit. This team will support the development of our humanitarian programmes through the provision of analysis in relation to on-going or developing humanitarian crises and on key developing trends in humanitarianism.


Last year was a period of significant transition for the Education Cluster.

The Save the Children component of the Education Cluster Unit (ECU) is now funded directly by members and the staffing structure has been streamlined to a core team of staff based in Geneva with a rapid deployment team based in Education Cluster Working Group partner agencies.

In 2012 Save the Children led or co-led Education Clusters/Education in Emergencies Working Groups in 22 countries, trained over 120 surge personnel, education programme managers, Ministry of Education officials and senior partner staff in the Coordination of Education in Emergency responses and the cluster approach.

We also published a review of our experiences of four years of Education Cluster co-leadership, Lessons in Leadership, and launched the report with support from OCHA, UNICEF and the Dutch Mission to the UN.

“We don’t often have lessons that are so applicable and relevant to our work.

We hope others will build on Save the Children’s Lessons in Leadership and follow their example.”

John Ging | OCHA Emergency Director

Providing lessons in leadership to thehumanitarian communityThe only NGO to co-lead a global level cluster

A girl from Shuanghe Village Primary School in Tianxing Town, Daguan County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, takes part in a lesson. Save the Children


Working with partners to deliver more for children

Following conversations with Western Union Business Solutions, Save the Children participated in a pilot programme called NGO GlobalPay.

NGO GlobalPay is an innovative and efficient solution which allows Save the Children International in London to send funds Western Union branches in countries which have been affected by crises for colleagues to collect and use to establish our emergency operations.

Our own cash transfer schemes make a real difference to Syrian refugees living in host communities in Jordan. Providing cash to families ensures that they can purchase the basic necessities they need to survive.

In December the European Union received the Nobel Peace Prize for creating lasting peace in Europe and the EU awarded the prize money to Save the Children and the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Save the Children has repeatedly demonstrated our ability to provide education in the most challenging contexts and repeatedly asserted our belief that education builds peace.

€900,000 of the prize money will go to implement education in emergencies programmes in Dollo Ado refugee camp, Ethiopia and in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Left: Chuickne Traore, 6 years old at his school with his new rucksack. Chuickne has been displaced by the violence in the North of Mali and now lives with his mother in Bamako. His father remains in Timbuktu. Katie Seaborne / Save the Children Right: Save the Children is helping children recover from their experiences within Syria and across the region by providing cash transfers, to make sure they can access education and to ensure that families have the basic necessities they need to survive. CJ Clarke / Save the Children

Nobel Peace Prize brings partnership for education in emergencies

Partnering with Western Union


Our teams in Asia have achieved a range of successes throughout 2012. The first ever implementation of a psychosocial first-aid tool following the Yunnan Earthquake in China was a milestone and through our high-quality delivery across the board, the team has developed a prominent position with donors in the region as a go-to agency on cash transfer programming. Furthermore, this year in collaboration with Save the Children Australia, the team has produced a topical and well received study on the Thailand and Cambodia flood.

The deadliest disaster this year was Typhoon Bopha/Pablo in the Philippines. 1,901 people lost their lives and millions were affected when a category 5 super typhoon hit Mindanao. Save the Children responded with household kits, and hygiene kits reaching over 16, 000 beneficiaries.

One way we helped children to return to school in Barangay Castuli, Philippines after the flooding caused by Tropical storm Haiku in August 2012, was on a “school boat” which transported pupils from their homes to Castuli Elementary School free of charge.

Regional Overview: Asia

The students of Castuli Elementary School in Macabebe, Pampanga aboard their new ‘school boat.’ Save the Children


Our support for children has been extensive across the region. In response to the air and naval strikes on Gaza in November, we quickly stockpiled essential relief items and as soon as it was safe to do so, we began to distribute food parcels, water and shelter materials to families, and vital medical supplies to hospitals. We are addressing both the short-term humanitarian response as well as longer term interventions in Yemen which are needed to respond to the food insecurity in country.

In July 2012, Save the Children launched one of its most complex, multi-sectoral humanitarian operations to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the violence in Syria. As of December 2012 our operations in Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon reached over 83,000 people with education and child protection programmes, health and nutrition, shelter, food security and livelihoods and the distribution of hygiene kits.

We have just had enormous success with our first global humanitarian coordinated campaign marking 2 years since the start of the violence in Syria. The response was overwhelming. 1,600 media hits were recorded worldwide. 17 members launched the Childhood Under Fire report in their national markets.

Regional Overview: Middle East and EurasiaLeft: A young girl sits amongst the

rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza. Save the Children called for an immediate end to the conflict in Gaza and Israel as the number of child casualties increased. Ahmed Deeb / Demotix for Save the Children

Right: *Nasib, two months with his brother *Mohammad, two and a half at a Save the Children supported health clinic near the Syrian border, Syria border region. Jonathan Hyams / Save the Children

*Names have been changed to protect their identity


Save the Children is an active member of the Regional Coalition for Resilience of Children and Youth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Within the region, Save the Children has provided emergency response and recovery throughout 2012.

Over 3 million people were affected by an earthquake in Guatemala in November. We provided psycho-social support to children who were affected and quickly established child friendly spaces. To prepare communities for future calamities 18 communities and 75 teachers were trained on disaster risk management and rapid emergency response procedures.

In September Save the Children launched a multi-sector response in reaction to a displacement of people in the Nariño Department in Colombia. Save the Children provided food and water to 2,000 internally displaced people and host communities.

Children who live amidst armed conflict face many challenges and sudden displacement will further compound this increasing their vulnerability. Save the Children ensured that children could continue their education and that community protection mechanisms were established within the displaced and the host communities.

Regional Overview: Latin America and the Caribbean


We saved lives of children threatened by malnutrition in the Sahel. Throughout 2012, we enabled families affected by the food crisis in Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania and Niger and the violence in Mali, to provide for their children, in both the short and long term. Our work focused on building long-term resilience at a community level as we continued to campaign for international support to end the Everyday Emergency. We raised US$37 million and reached over 1.5 million people.

Building on our investments in 2011 across East Africa, Save the Children is working with families, communities, schools, local governments, partners, national and regional decision makers to understand and engage with changes in the East Africa Drylands. We have undertaken analysis and research; are forging new partnerships and piloting new programmes to build resilience.

In 2012, Save the Children supported children and families along the borders of Sudan, South Sudan and Ethiopia. Children displaced by conflict are receiving psycho-social support as well as opportunities to access schooling.

Regional Overview: East Africa and West and Central Africa

“We have the most incredible people.

Some have worked for us for up to 20 years, through numerous government changes and insecurity, and for some this is the second food crisis.

The fact that they can keep going, keep positive, keep reaching children is incredibly inspirational.”

Sonia Zambakides Humanitarian Director | Somalia

Khady Samba, a Save the Children nurse in Mauritania, visits the villages of Gorgol and Brakna, to detect children with malnutrition symptoms. He advises their mothers on how to treat them before they get worse and if necessary takes them to the hospital. Óscar Naranjo / Save the Children


2012 OverviewJanuary

March

July

August

September

November

December

Afghanistan | Severe Cold (Category 4) 16

West Africa | Food insecurity (Category 2) 17

Syria | Regional refugee response (Category 2) 19 Severe cold, floods, Typhoon Bovelan (Category 3) 22

Yemen | Food insecurity (Category 2) 23

Pakistan, Khyber Agency | Internal displacement (Category 3) 24

East Africa | Food crisis (Category 2) 25

Somalia | Food insecurity (Category 2) 26

South Sudan | Refugee response (Category 2) 27

Philippines | Tropical Storm Haikui / Floods (Category 3) 28

Pakistan | Monsoon Floods (Category 3) 29

Colombia | Internal displacement (Category 4) 30

China, Yunnan | Earthquake (Category 3) 31

Democratic Republic of the Congo | Internal displacement (Category 3) 32

oPt | Conflict (Category 3) 33

Guatemala | Earthquake (Category 4) 34

Philippines | Typhoon Bopha (Category 3) 35


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2012 - SAVING CHILDREN’S LIVES IN HUMANITARIAN CRISES

www.savethechildren.net

21M Save the Children’s Humanitarian work reached more than

21 MILLION

CHILDREN around

the world in 2012 *Includes Direct & Indirect figures

Save the Children Total Reach 2012

5.8 MILLION

CHILDREN

11.2 MILLION

CHILDREN & ADULTS

15.6 MILLION

CHILDREN *Indirect

24.8 MILLION

CHILDREN & ADULTS

*Indirect

TOTAL REACH


HUMANITARIAN NUMBERS BY SECTOR

www.savethechildren.net

104,392 registered children at Child Friendly Spaces

8,792 registration/reunification of accompanied children

425 community-based committees

93,400 children at school

2,469 teachers trained

80,499 school kits distributed

1,434,149 food baskets distributed

793,990 cash or voucher transfers

1,151,577 animals vaccinated

349,889 people received agricultural inputs

704,795 people received food aid supplementation

202,120 household kits distributed


HUMANITARIAN NUMBERS BY SECTOR

1,235,739 health consultations

406,373 preventative child health interventions

2,196 health workers trained

719,472 community members reached with health

education messages

335,395 children < 5 treated (malaria, pneumonia

& diarrhea)

657,692 children 6-59 months MUAC screened

149,481 pregnant & lactating women MUAC

screened

114,783 pregnant & lactating women referred to SFP

474,348 malnourished children < 5 treated

1,120,289 people improved access to water

366,136 people reached with hygiene messages

157,852 hygiene kits distributed


Severe cold weather and heavy snowfall hit Kabul in January 2012, making it the coldest winter to hit Afghanistan in over 15 years. Temperatures plummeted to -17 degrees Celsius, leaving internally displaced people (IDPs) living in informal settlements without sufficient heat, warm clothing and food.

The Afghan Ministry of Public Health reported that 40 children were killed due to cold weather related causes. There were about 20,000 IDPs living in 17 informal settlements in Kabul at that time, most of them from surrounding provinces as well as returnees from Pakistan and Iran. Save the Children responded to the crisis by providing over 3,800 families with relief items such as blankets, warm clothing, toiletries, tarpaulins and shoes.

In February, Bamyan experienced severe snowfall and avalanches affecting 83 villages. Save the Children responded to all 639 families providing them with quilts, pillows and mattresses. Later in December, Saripul faced severe winter which destroyed shelters in an area home to 318 returnee families from Iran. We distributed shelter, hygiene kits, blankets and tarps.

Save the Children in Afghanistan responds to many small emergencies throughout the year using prepositioned stock in six warehouses in country, and working in coordination with the government, UN and other NGOs.

In the year 2012, they responded to 48 small emergencies (grouped by province per response type per month) largely caused by severe winter or floods.

Earthquakes, landslides and IDP movements are also common, and the country office also helps communities prevent, plan and manage rapid onset disasters.

Afghanistan

Severe Cold

Category 4January, February

& December 2012

Top: Qamar, 35, and her two children wait to be seen by a doctor in a clinic for malnourished children in Jawzjan, Northern Afghanistan. Elissa Bogos / Save the Children

Middle: A boy is clearing snow from the plastic sheet roofs of an informal settlement for displaced people in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mats Lignell / Save the Children

Bottom: Afghanistan experienced its coldest winter in 15 years in February 2012. Temperatures dropped to minus 17 degrees Celsius. Christine Roehrs / Save the Children


Even in non-crisis years, the population of the Sahel is extremely vulnerable. Every year, fifty percent of children under-five suffer chronic malnutrition and 300,000 children die from malnutrition-related causes. The 2012 emergency was the third since 2005 and the ability of a typical household to absorb the shock of these repeated crises had been eroded.

In 2012, poor rains resulted in a 25% reduction in cereal production across the region, and food prices that are in some areas 80% higher than the five-year average. More than 10 million people were struggling to meet their minimum food requirements, and at the peak of the crisis more than 18 million people were at risk of hunger, with nearly 8 million were in need of emergency assistance.

Furthermore, political crisis in Mali forced 200,000 people to seek asylum in neighbouring countries and displaced an estimated 200,000 inside Mali; 60,000 children were affected by Mali’s conflict and were in need of protection from exploitation.

In June we shifted our focus to crisis response and launched a global humanitarian response across Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Niger. Our priorities were to save the lives of children threatened by malnutrition; enable families affected by the food crisis to provide for their children; support children and their families displaced by the violence in Mali and build long–term resilience at a community level.

The stand-out element of the 2012 West Africa Food Crisis response was the timing of the intervention and the commitment to trying to prevent this crisis, not just responding to it once it peaked. This was one of the lessons Save the Children learnt from the East Africa food crisis the year before, when a delay in responding to the food crisis by governments, donors and NGOs resulted in wastage of funds and many unnecessary deaths of the most vulnerable.

However, despite a million children being at risk of starvation this continued to be a “silent hunger crisis” - it barely made the news headlines. To put the spotlight on the food crisis, we issued a warning, voiced globally through a new report, Ending the Everyday Emergency, a study by World Vision and Save the Children. It warned that this food emergency had put over a million children at risk of severe malnutrition and highlights the benefits of how taking a comprehensive approach to resilience can improve child well being, and move the Sahel towards dramatically reduced rates of hunger and malnutrition. Our response raised US$37 million, reaching over 1.5 million beneficiaries.

Sahel

Food Insecurity

Category 2January 2012

“We’re already seeing the number of malnourished children needing treatment rise, and unless we can scale-up our programmes, it will continue to do so. If we act early we can save thousands of lives. We have known that a hunger crisis is brewing in the Sahel for months, but without funding, there is little we can do to stop it.” Jeremy Stoner, Regional Director | West Africa

Top: Balkissa Ouedrago, three, at the Barsalgho Medical Centre, Burkina Faso. She’s been here for three days. Jonathan Hyams / Save the Children

Middle: Tsahara brings her son Habou, 3, to see the doctor at their local health centre in Kentche, Zinder region, Niger. Hedinn Halldorsson / Save the Children.

Bottom: Mothers wait in line to receive a food at Save the Children funded stabilisation centre, Maradi region in Niger. Jonathan Hyams / Save the Children.


Saving lives in NigerOne year old Shamsia was treated for severe acute malnutrition at a Save the Children funded, inpatient stabilisation centre at Aguie hospital, Maradi region, Niger.

After just eighteen days of treatment, Shamsia made a full recovery and was ready to be discharged and return home with her mother Lantana.

One year old Shamsia was treated for severe acute malnutrition at a Save the Children funded, inpatient stabilisation centre at Aguie hospital, Maradi region, Niger. Luckily, she made a full recovery. Jonathan Hyams / Save the Children


From the very beginning of the conflict in Syria, children have been its forgotten victims – facing death, trauma and suffering, and deprived of basic humanitarian aid.

Save the Children estimates that nearly 3.1 million children are in need of assistance inside Syria and the conflict is affecting all aspects of children’s lives.

Families are struggling to find a safe place to stay, as nearly 3 million buildings have been damaged or destroyed. The lines of fighting move almost daily, so families often do not know if the place they’ve settled in today will be safe tomorrow.

In July 2012 Save the Children launched one of its most complex, multi-sectoral humanitarian operations to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the violence in Syria. As of June 2013, our operations in Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon have reached 367,219 people with education and child protection programmes, health and nutrition, shelter, food security and livelihoods and the distribution of hygiene kits.

Syria

Regional Refugee

ResponseCategory 2

March 2012

Mimi Jakobsen, Save the Children Denmark’s CEO travelled to the Jordan/Syrian border in April 2012. “I came here to see with my own eyes how Save the Children is supporting children who have witnessed conflict; children who have been on the run for several days, perhaps weeks, and children who are suffering from malnutrition because of sanctions and unrest in their homeland.

No child should experience what these children have experienced. It takes a lot for a family to leave everything they have; but families are fleeing Syria because they fear for their lives. Here in Jordan, they are trying their best to live with the uncertainty that the future brings. That is why we are here - to support children and their families in this extremely difficult situation.”

*Jasmine, three (front) and *Shaima, five (back), play with Mimi Jakobsen at a CFS in Jordan, Ramtha. Hedinn Halldorsson/ Save the Children

*Names have been changed to protect their identity


“It’s freezing, wet and the camp is already over-crowded. Many children who are arriving are exhausted, shocked and terrified.

Despite the best efforts of aid workers, the camp is reaching a breaking point and this is going to get so much worse in the next few days if numbers continue to rise at such an alarming rate.”

Saba Al Mosalat, Programme Director in Zaatari Camp | Jordan

A global voice for childrenAfter 18 months of terror, our Stop the Killing campaign and the launch of our Untold Atrocities report exposed the crimes against Syria’s children.

These first-hand accounts of the conflict were from children and parents receiving help from Save the Children after escaping the violence in Syria. It contained shocking testimony collected from refugees fleeing Syria revealing that children had been killed, maimed and tortured in the country’s brutal civil war. They also witnessed the deaths of parents, siblings, other children, and torture.

Working with other agencies, we have drawn the world’s attention to the crisis and voiced children’s concerns. We called on the UN and others to end the violence and secure full humanitarian access inside Syria. Our Stop the Killing campaign lent weight to our advocacy - 60,000 people from 145 countries across the world answered our campaign call demanding action on behalf of Syria’s innocent children and our supporters also took over social media to spread the word. Our #stopkilling message reached 10 million people on Twitter and thousands of supporters shared the petition on Facebook.

Our campaign spurred UK Prime Minister David Cameron, addressing Syria in a keynote speech to the United Nations General Assembly, to “look at the evidence published by Save the Children”.

Together, we’ve given a global voice to the thousands of voiceless children trapped, terrified and in desperate need in Syria.

Top: Doa’a, 13, sits in a school registration centre in Lebanon Beka’a valley, close to the Syrian border. Doa’a was forced to flee her home in Syria. She has not been able to go to school for months. Hedinn Halldorsson/Save the Children

Bottom: Save the Children Country Director, Tamer Kirolos and Programme Director Saba Al Mobaslat, reaffirms children’s protection needs at the camp with the French ambassador to Jordan HE Mrs. Corinne Breuze in front of Save the Children`s Child friendly space at the Zaataari refugee camp during the camps opening. Save the Children


In LebanonAs of June 2013 Save the Children has reached 57,469 people (46,303 children).

Some key activities:

The free medical consultations are on-going for pregnant women, new mothers and children in Bekaa valley benefiting 7,370 people.

4,900 Syrian refugee children are participating in our Accelerated Learning Programme and Remedial Classes in Akkar, Tripoli and Bekaa.

We have distributed “Quick Fix Kit” cash vouchers to Syrian households living in inadequate shelters to have the tools and materials they need to weather proof their shelter and do internal partitions or extension for privacy or extra space.

Syrian children show the jumpers they have received from frontline teams. Our teams and partners are distributing ‘essential life-saving items’ including warm coats, blankets and food. Syria Relief

“The heartbreaking stories we’re hearing from Syrian refugees as winter approaches underline the fact that this crisis is rapidly deteriorating. Every day new refugees are arriving, but the funding required to give them the help they need is simply not there.” Justin Forsyth, Save the Children Chief Executive | UK

A bitter winterAs winter approached and snow and sub-zero temperatures hit many areas, Save the Children raised the alarm that refugees and IDPs desperately needed warm clothing, shelter, and stoves to prevent a further deterioration in the health of affected children and their families.

Our report, Out in the Cold, documented the desperate steps that children in Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan were taking to survive increasingly bitter weather in the region.

At this time some 400,000 refugees were estimated to be living in tents, barns, unfinished buildings and other temporary shelters ill-equipped to provide protection from the cold.

Many fled during summer months with only the clothes on their backs, and children lacked warm jackets and clothes to withstand the winter. In Iraq, the only footwear most refugee children had were flip-flops they fled in while in Jordan, parents were going into debt to provide basic clothing for their children. In Lebanon, where there are no camps, high rents prevented families finding or keeping adequate shelter.

“We’ve seen some positive situations where children, after they’ve actually had the chance to spend time in some of the child-friendly spaces start to actually express themselves a little bit more and start to open up a little bit more.”

Roger Hearn, Regional Team Leader


In JordanSave the Children in Jordan as of June 2013 has reached a total of 237,145 people (130,430 children).

Save the Children Jordan has reached a total of 136,800 people (96,925 children).


Save the Children is distributing food to 128,071 people in Zaatari refugee camp together with WFP. We also reach 122,083 Syrian refugees through our daily bread distribution in the camp. In total we distribute 29.3 metric tons or more than half a million pieces of bread every day. In addition, Save the Children reach 72,809 beneficiaries through a food voucher programme in the host communities in Amman and Zarqa with WFP.

Save the Children and UNICEF continue to reach an average of 5,650 children between the age of 5 and 10 through 29 child-friendly spaces in Zaatari and King Abdullah Park camp.

Save the Children Jordan has reached a total of 46,021 refugees through education interventions, including distribution of school kits and school registration

Top: Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan. The line to the bread starts at 5 am and goes on for hours. The ration is four breads per person. Hedinn Halldorsson/Save the Children

Middle:On a cold November night, Hammoudi, 2, and his siblings warm themselves by a fire inside a former sheep shed in northern Lebanon where they now live. Sam Tarling/Save the Children

Bottom: According to the latest UN figures, more than 1,590,000 people have fled Syria as refugees (registered and awaiting registration). Children are especially vulnerable and make up 50% of the affected population – this is a children’s emergency. Save the Children

In IraqAs of June 2013 Save the Children has reached a total of 7,747 people (4,688 children)


Save the Children is running a child-friendly space and a youth-friendly space in each of the two refugee camps in Al Qaim.

We have distributed hygiene kits to all families living in the Al Qaim camps

During the cold winter months, we distributed warm clothing to children living in the camps.

“I do not want anything for myself, but I want you to give blankets to my little sister. She is crying and in pain, and I love her, so I cannot bear to see her cry.”

5 year old Syrian refugee | Iraq In SyriaThis year Save the Children has reached 64,858 people inside Syria through our multi-sectoral humanitarian interventions.


Instability in Yemen has left the country facing a hunger catastrophe, with nearly half of the population without enough food. Save the Children joined forces with 7 aid agencies to warn those attending A Friends of Yemen conference that 10 million Yemenis - 44% of the population - were undernourished, 5 million required emergency aid and the urgent need to scale up efforts to tackle the crisis.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Yemen has one of the highest chronic malnutrition rates in the world, with 60% of children under five stunted and one million children nationwide suffering from acute malnutrition. 43% of Yemen’s population is under the age of fourteen.

We launched a US$40 million appeal and by the end of 2012 our response in Yemen had reached approximately 600,000 people.

Recognising that the situation will require both short-term humanitarian response as well as longer term interventions,

Yemen’s response includes life-saving nutrition services for acutely and severely malnourished children, preventative action such as cash transfers, catch-up classes for those who have missed out on school, child protection projects (ie Educate a Child Initiative) and longer term support and vocational training to ensure families have viable livelihoods and therefore a more secure future.

Yemen

Food CrisisCategory 2

March 2012

“Almost half of Yemen’s population now does not have enough to eat. Political instability, conflict and high prices have left families across the country going hungry.

We know that children always suffer the most when food is in short supply, and unless urgent humanitarian action is taken,

Yemen will be plunged into a hunger crisis of catastrophic proportions.”

Jerry Farrell, Country Director | Yemen

Top: Abdo, 11 is displaced from Abyan. He is one of the beneficiaries of our WASH project in Aden, Yemen. Saleh Awadh / Save the Children

Middle: Yehia Abdullah holds his grandchild who suffers from acute malnutrition and is now getting better with Save the Children’s help. Saleh Awadh / Save the Children

Bottom: One of the camps in Haradh, Yemen, has hundreds of displaced families living in rough tent-like houses, with poor sanitation and little privacy. Ala’a Al-Eryani/ Save the Children


In March fighting in Pakistan’s Khyber district drove over 700,000 people from their homes, desperate to escape the fighting and opting for the relative safety of displacement camps and host families.

About 250,000 people, including 100,000 children, escaped during the violence without sufficient food, water and shelter.

This had a detrimental impact on host communities, putting a strain on existing basic services such as education and health. Many of these families had fled with few or no belongings, putting them in need of basic services and warm clothes for the winter weather.

Save the Children initially launched a 6-month multi-sector response that was later extended to June 2013.

In 2012, we reached 442,925 beneficiaries through the delivery of food, household items & toiletries, setting up child-friendly spaces, temporary learning centres and mobile health clinics, as well as programs to help families regain their livelihoods.

Efforts are still on-going, further complicated by a new wave of IDPs in 2013.

Pakistan, Khyber Agency

Internal Displacement

Category 3March 2012

“Thousands of children are arriving, many of them deeply distressed by the conflict. Having fled for safety, their families are forced to choose between grim conditions in the camps or cramming into their relatives’ homes.

They urgently need help.

We are already seeing rates of disease rise in the camps, and conditions outside are reported to be even worse. The world needs to wake up fast to this escalating crisis.”

David Wright, Country Director | Pakistan

Top: Children busy at a Save the Children’s Temporary Learning Space in District Peshawar. Save the Children

Middle: Bina, 4, was displaced from Khyber Agency. She is here with her family at a Save the Children’s health camp in District Peshawar. Save the Children

Bottom: Displaced children from Khyber Agency at a Save the Children’s Temporary Learning Center (TLC) in District Peshawar. Save the Children


Pakistan, Khyber AgencyOur response to the deadly food crisis was “declared” in July 2011.

We set ourselves the goal of reaching 2 million people and outlined a funding target of US$100 million.

In April 2012, it became apparent that the recovery process was going to take longer and our response strategies were revised upwards.

We redefined our goals and set ourselves the task to reach 2.4 million people and raise US$200 million.

This became our largest ever response exceeding our targets by reaching nearly 4 million people, and raising over US$180 million by the time we had announced the end of our East Africa Food Crisis declaration in October 2012.

Over 2012 the humanitarian situation improved in many areas of East Africa, partly as a result of sustained efforts by humanitarian agencies like Save the Children, but the gains we have made are fragile and easily reversed.

The food security situation remains critical in many areas, and the flow of refugees from Somalia into neighbouring countries continues.

Therefore we continue to ask every Save the Children member to continue their donor fundraising efforts for the entire region, and particularly for Somalia where the needs remain huge.

East Africa

Food CrisisCategory 2

July 2012

Providing healthcare in EthiopiaCommunity health volunteer Jemilla takes the measurement of the mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) of Habiba Abdosh, 8 months old, at Shinille health centre in Somali Region, Ethiopia

Jemilla assesses children at risk of malnutrition and refers them to the stabilisation centre if they require additional treatment.

Save the Children provides high nutrient food to severe and moderately malnourished children in three districts of Somali Region, Ethiopia. Malnutrition is the cause of one in three deaths of children under five years old in the area.

Middle: Farhia, 15, is acting as a foster mother to her sister Nadifa, 6, and brother Hassan, 13. The three children live alone in a white tent in Kobe refugee camp in Dollo Ado in Ethiopia’s southern Somali region. Olivia Zinzan / Save the Children

Bottom: A community health volunteer takes the measurement of the mid upper arm circumference (MUAC). Save the Children.


In July Somalia faced a fresh emergency as poor rains and conflict threatened to push hundreds of thousands of children left vulnerable by last year’s food crisis back into hunger. Over 3 million people were affected.

Save the Children was able to reach over 750,000 people. Our response included supplementary feeding programs, cash for work incentives, child resilience trainings and workshops, free maternal and child health care services and WASH initiatives.

Today the situation in Somalia continues to remain critical. Life for the women and children where we work has not substantially improved over the past year.

We are still running a large humanitarian response programme, and what we provide is that difference between life and death for thousands of people.

Somalia

Food Insecurity

Category 2July 2012

“If Save the Children were not here I do not know what we would do. I am grateful for the food they have given my son, and the family ration they have given us. If you tell me that Save the Children will leave Mogadishu I would say to you that many would die as a result.

You are from Save the Children, yes? Then I say thank you. And please - do not leave.”

Asman | Somalia

Top: 100,000 people live on the edge of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in camps for displaced families. Save the Children

Middle: : A mother and child living in Darwish IDP camp in Mogadishu, Somalia. Rob Holden / Save the Children.

Bottom: A boy’s weight is checked in a health centre in Somalia. Save the Children


South Sudan, devastated by decades of war which had caused the deaths of 2 million people and forced 4 million to flee, faced a humanitarian catastrophe in 2012 caused by an influx of refugees fleeing conflict in neighbouring Sudan.

By the end of the year more than 170,000 refugees had settled in camps in Upper Nile and Unity states in the north of the world’s newest country. An estimated 60% of the refugees were children and were arriving in desperate need of assistance. An unknown number of people remained trapped beyond the reach of humanitarian agencies.

The children who arrived at the camps had experienced prolonged conflict and instability and were in need of urgent psychosocial support. Many had been separated from their families and were vulnerable to exploitation and recruitment into armed groups.

Save the Children provided more than 41,000 children and their families with access to vital education and child protection support to keep them safe and help them overcome the horrific violence they had suffered, as well as sanitation and hygiene facilities.

South Sudan remains one of the most under-developed countries in the world, with little infrastructure and low access to basic services outside of the capital city, Juba. This crisis came at the same time as other internal humanitarian crises, leaving communities struggling to cope.

In 2012, internal conflict, especially in the volatile Jonglei state, forced around 190,000 people from their homes and thousands more was displaced by serious flooding. The conflict left children at risk of injury, death and abduction. Save the Children set up child protection programmes to keep children safe, reunite separated and abducted children with their families and train communities on children’s rights.

This conflict, natural disasters and other factors including border closures and oil production shutdown saw food prices soar and malnutrition rise; 4.7 million people were food insecure and one third of children in South Sudan were malnourished, way above emergency thresholds.

In Jonglei, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Eastern Equatoria and Unity states, Save the Children was running education, food security, nutrition, and child protection programs and distributing shelter and non-food items to displaced families.

South Sudan

Refugee Response

Category 2July 2012

Middle: 16 year old Nadia, a refugee from South Kordofan, Sudan at the John Garang Primary School in Pariang, Unity state, South Sudan. The school is currently being used as Save the Children’s Education in Emergencies (EiE) Pariang Secondary School for over 1,600 young refugees from South Kordofan, Sudan. Jenn Warren / Save the Children

“We were living with our mother and three younger sisters in our village, but we ran in different di-rections when the village was attacked. I go to the ALP [run by Save the Children] in the afternoon. I want to continue going to school so I can get the knowledge to live a good life. The biggest thing affect-ing me is the absence of my mother. I always worry for her safety and we don’t know whether she will be ok. When I see her here I will be so thankful that she managed to come and find us. “

Farris |South Sudan


The southwest monsoon rains, enhanced by Tropical Storm Haikui, caused floods that displaced millions of people.

Water submergged many parts of Manila and families moved into evacuation centres, with about 23,019 still remaining there in late November, unable to return to their homes.

Save the Children reached over 12,500 families, including 57,000 children, in its distribution of water, household items, toiletries, school clean-up kits, school materials and newborn care items, and through the set-up of child-friendly spaces and cash transfer activities.

Save the Children also initiated longer term clean-up projects for flood-affected & damaged schools through cash-for-work programmes that benefitted 2,357 individuals who received cash/voucher transfers.

The Philippines

Tropical Storm

Haikui & Floods

Category 3August 2012

Displaced by the rainsSave the Children staff conducted hygiene promotion at an evacuation centre in Laguna, the Philippines.

Top: Millions of people in the areas surrounding Manila, Philippines were affected in the floods that hit August 2012. Save the Children

Bottom: Save the Children staff conducts hygiene promotion at an evacuation centre after families were displaced in the floods in the Philippines. Olivia Zinzan / Save the Children

“Over 2.5 million children have been affected by the floods, many of them living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. In low-lying areas such as La-guna, families are afraid that their children may be forced to live in evacuation centres until Christmas. These evacuation centres are unfit for people to live in for such an extended period of time.”

Anna Lindenfors, Country Director | Philippines


In September, Monsoon floods affected over 5 million people, damaging over 630,000 houses and destroying 1,172,045 acres of land.

The humanitarian community supported returnees through provision of basic return packages comprising of food, hygiene kits and shelter repair kits.

Many families lived in temporary shelters next to their damaged houses, in unhygienic living conditions with a lack of safe drinking water, increasing the risk of the spread of water-borne diseases. Malnutrition rates in several districts were beyond emergency thresholds and worse than in some places in sub-Saharan Africa.

Save the Children’s humanitarian relief efforts began in September 2012, with the provision of Shelter/NFI kits, mobile health teams and services, malnutrition screening, establishing child-friendly spaces and temporary learning centres and food distribution.

Efforts are still currently ongoing with an additional 179,427 people reached in 2013 so far, although funding has also been low, with only about 2/3 of the target raised till date.

To date, Save the Children has reached over 545,366 people through Shelter/NFI, Food Aid, Health, Education and Child Protection programs.

Pakistan

MonsoonFloods

Category 3September 2012

Nowhere to go Sumaiya and her children were made to live in the open after her home was destroyed in the floods that hit Rajanpur District, Pakistan in October 2012.

According to Pakistani authorities, 4.6 million people were affected.

Save the Children responded through food distributions, mobile health services, temporary learning centres and child friendly spaces.

Top: A family carries a Save the Children food basket through flood water in Sindh province, Pakistan. Save the Children

Bottom: Sumaiya with her children. living in the open air after her home was destroyed by the floods in Rajanpur, Pakistan. Save the Children


In 2012 Colombia had the highest recorded number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the world, with 3.9 million people – 8.5% of the population – displaced since 1996 (unofficial estimates are closer to 5.2 million), and between 150,000 and 200,000 new IDPs continuing to be displaced each year.

Many IDPs return spontaneously often unaccompanied and in insecure conditions. One of this displacements took place last September in Nariño Department,

Save the Children implemented a multisectorial response reaching 2,000 people including the families who hosted the displaced families.

Food and access to quality water was ensured for two months, while community protection systems and access to education were reinforced

Colombia

InternalDisplacement

Category 4September 2012

In addition to the harmful physical effects posed by living in an armed conflict context, displacements abruptly affect the daily lives and development of children.

“I miss my toys and the games I used to play with my friends at home, but at least in the settlement, I start school at 8am and finish by 1pm. After this we play outside.”

Adriana | Colombia


On 7 September 2012, a series of earthquakes occurred in the southwest of Yunnan province. Landslides, rains and aftershocks further exacerbated the situation

The earthquakes left 81 people dead and more than 700,000 people affected, 20,000 houses were damaged. Schools and houses completely destroyed and many children were affected.

Save the Children started to respond immediately and dispatched the first disaster assessment group the day after the earthquake day to assess the needs of local children and their families.

On the basis of field visits and research, Save the Children distributed over 2,000 household kits (each consists of a rechargeable torch, a jug and a carpet), 1,430 boxes of infant cereal and 2, 000 winter clothes for children.

We reached 79,918 people, our target was 40,000.

China, Yunnan

EarthquakeCategory 3

September 2012

Working for mothers and babiesSave the Children set up ‘baby wash’ centres to provide support for mothers and protect the health of their babies.

Top: A destroyed home in a village in Tianxing Township, Daguan County, Save the Children. Middle: On November 13 2012, Save the Children started to distribute relief materials including 1,000 family kits as well as 30 school kits to 30 schools in Yiliang County and Daguan County. Save the Children. Bottom: Can, 7 months, receives a hot bath at Mianzhu City, Sichuan Province, China. Save the Children.


In November, due to the upsurge in violence between Congolese forces and a break-away group of soldiers known as M23 in the North Kivu region of eastern DRC, thousands of families were forced to flee their homes in search of safety.

Over half a million people were displaced as a result of on-going violence; many living in settlements in and around Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, in very basic conditions.

We raised the alarm that thousands of children displaced by fighting in and around the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were at risk of separation from their families, sexual violence and recruitment into armed groups.

Over US$ 400,000 was contributed by members allowing urgent lifesaving operations to begin. Save the Children supported local partners to identify, refer and do follow ups for separated and other vulnerable children.

Save the Children teams screened and treated children for malnutrition and delivered life-saving medical supplies to health centres. We also supported education by providing school kits to displaced children and rehabilitating schools that have been damaged or looted.

We have reached 74,000 people – including over 25,000 children.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

InternalDisplacement

Category 3November 2012

Top: Anicet, 10, and his brothers were recently reunited with their parents by a partner of Save the Children’s after they were separated earlier this year by ongoing conflict. Daniel McCabe / Save the Children

Middle: Reponse, 2 and his family have been displaced as a result of the conflict. He is now suffering from severe malnutrition and is receiving treatment at the Save the Children-supported Virunga hospital, Goma. Katie Seaborne/Save the Children

Bottom: A Save the Children member uses a megaphone to ‘sensitise’ the crowds of displaced people who had gathered to received the goods on how the process worked. Daniel McCabe / Save the Children

“In any refugee crisis children face a range of risks, including separation from their families, abuse and exploitation, but the long-term insecurity in the eastern DRC means children are in a particularly dangerous situation.

We call all sides to ensure that children are offered the protection they are owed and that they can be reunited with their families as soon as possible.”

Rob MacGillivray, Country Director | DRC


In November the Israeli military launched a series of air and naval strikes on Gaza. This began with the targeted assassination of the senior Hamas military leader Ahmed al Jabari.

In Gaza tens of thousands of children were caught in the middle of the fighting - terrified by airstrikes and traumatised by what they’ve seen. In Israel, rocket attacks forced fearful children into shelters and led to the closure of schools across the south of the country.

Save the Children quickly appealed for US$200,000 for the stockpiling of essential relief items and our team in Gaza, while trapped in their homes, immediately began to assess the impact and determine the need by phone and by keeping in close contact with family, partners, community leaders and vendors across the Gaza strip.

As soon as it was safe to do so, we began to distribute food parcels, water and shelter materials to families, and vital medical supplies to hospitals. We also set up safe spaces where children could get expert help to deal with what they’ve experienced. With schools shut down across Gaza, we helped children get basic education and return to some kind of normality.

Save the Children called for an immediate end to the violence so that humanitarian access could be guaranteed therefore allowing people to the buy essential items they needed and for humanitarian agencies to deliver needed aid. Save the Children reached over 50,000 people through protection, WASH and NFI interventions.

oPt

ConflictCategory 3

November 2012

“It is a dangerous and terrifying time for children. Most families have been trapped at home for four days, unable to leave to find basic supplies.

With so many children already malnourished and suffering from anaemia, the impact on children’s health is potentially devastating.”

Osama Damo, Communications Senior Manager | oPt

Top: Save the Children staff members provide life-saving food parcels and first-aid kits to families in Gaza. Monique Jaques/Save the Children Middle: Displaced Palestinians, who have fled their houses, are at a United Nations-run school in Gaza City. Ahmed Deeb / Demotix for Save the Children.Bottom: Save the Children called for an immediate end to the conflict in Gaza and Israel as the number of child casualties mounts. Monique Jaques/Save the Children


On 7 November Guatemala was rocked by 7.2-magnitude earthquake. 3,443,110 people were affected, 30,791 severely affected and 139 people lost their lives.

Save the Children Guatemala was monitoring the situation in close coordination with government, humanitarian agencies and local partners.

An internal appeal was launched and the response was implemented in close coordination with local authorities for those sector with less support such as child protection and psychological support.

Child friendly spaces were in place for 4 months taking care of the emotional recovery of 2,000 children.

We trained 355 adults in providing psychological support and child friendly spaces methodology and we provided 20 kits on Psychological support to communities and local authorities.

To prepare families from future disasters we also trained 18 community leaders and 75 teachers on Disaster Risk Management and rapid emergency response procedures.

Guatemala

EarthquakeCategory 4

November 2012

“ All of us have learnt from this experience that in the moments of emergency absolutely everyone needs to feel alive, participate, contribute, and most importantly, to feel supportive.

It was amazing that in spite of all difficulties, all affected population during the training were able to put aside the impact of the emergency and enjoy the moment.

We won smiles, screams, applauses, and we carried out all the instructions with love, knowing that this would contribute to the resilience of children.”

Wendy Avila, Emergency Project Manager | Guatemala

Top: Children take part in a child friendly space which Save the Children established after the earthquake. Save the Children.

Middle: Community leaders take part in a training on Disaster Risk Management and rapid emergency response procedures. Save the Children.

Bottom: Children take part in pyscho-social activities run by Save the Children. Save the Children.


Guatemala

The lives of tens of thousands of children in the Philippines were thrown into chaos in the aftermath of a killer typhoon that hit eastern Mindanao affecting over six million people across 34 provinces.

Typhoons have hit Mindanao twice in the past two years, flattening entire areas. In Typhoon Bopha, which struck in December 2012, homes were ripped apart, electrical lines and water pipes damaged plantations, schools and livelihoods destroyed. Children in this part of the Philippines are especially vulnerable as it is one of the poorest areas of the country and malnutrition rates are the higher than the national average. Many depend on agriculture for income, but with plantations completely flattened, their livelihoods were completely destroyed. In such a situation, many children run the risk of dropping out of school to beg, work or marry early.

To ensure that our beneficiaries’ lives could go back to normal as quickly as possible, Save the Children adopted a multi-sectoral approach to tackling the aftermath of Typhoon Bopha for each beneficiary’s household. This included Food Security and Livelihoods, Shelter, Health and Nutrition, Water Sanitation and Hygiene, Child Protection and Education activities.

Save the Children reached over 16,067 people in its distribution of water, household items, toiletries, school clean-up kits, school materials and newborn care items, and through the set-up of child-friendly spaces and cash transfer activities.

As such disasters may become a more frequent occurrence, Save the Children’s emergency response team aim to build back better to increase resilience of communities to disasters and reduce livelihood shock.

The Philippines

TyphoonBopha

Category 3December 2012

Middle: Save the Children delivered pre-made aid packages to Compostela Valley, including crockery, toiletries, household items and blankets. Save the Children

Top: Save the Children staff register families for pre-made aid packages in Compostela Valley. Save the Children

Bottom: Michelle, 27, has 2 children. Jay, 3 and Rey, 1. Michelle did not imagine such very strong winds and rain from Typhoon Bopha. The roof of her house was ripped off. Reine Kathryn Rala/Save the Children

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