Every day, 244 children in Europe fall into poverty. On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we’re asking: why is this still happening — and what can the EU do to change it? We know that child poverty isn’t inevitable — it’s a policy choice. 👇 Here’s how the EU can act.

STATEMENT: Pause in hostilities a crucial relief for children in #Gaza – now it must become a definitive and lasting #ceasefire savethechildren.net/news/pause-h...

‼️No child should pay the price of inaction. Join us next week for the launch of “Child Poverty: The Cost Europe Cannot Afford” report, revealing new data from 16 countries & how the EU can lift 5M children from poverty. ➡️ Register here now info-hub.booking.europarl.europa.eu/events/child...

👋 You're invited! Join us, @eccjorg.bsky.social & @shareaction.bsky.social for a timely discussion on the Omnibus I package: how to simplify corporate rules without sacrificing human rights or the planet. 📅 30/09, 12–13 CEST 📍 Online webinar 👉 Register events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6f0852...

What we are witnessing on the ground is consistent with UN findings that a genocide is being committed in Gaza: ❌20,000+ children killed since Oct 2023 ❌Many not only by bombs & bullets but deliberate starvation ❌21,000 left disabled ❌Gaza now has the world’s highest rate of child amputees ⬇️

The European Commission’s proposal announced today is long overdue, but it tragically falls short in addressing what the UN has recognised as genocide. #Gaza has been deliberately made uninhabitable, and half-measures cannot reverse the engineered famine or the mass killing of children.

"What we're witnessing in Gaza is not only an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe but what the UN Commission of Inquiry has now concluded is a genocide. This moment demands decisive action.” Statement of 20+ CEOs of aid agencies in Gaza 👇 www.savethechildren.net/news/gaza-le...

President VDL’s #SOTEU pledged new EU measures on Gaza. Promises must become action — too many come too late for children. Save the Children Europe joins #LetChildrenLive. Every name is a child. Every child has the right to a future. 🔗 Take action: advocacy kit → bit.ly/4pofPka

📣 Parents & caregivers! 📣 The EU wants to hear from your 12–17-year-olds about cyberbullying. Their views will shape the new EU Action Plan. Adults can also join the consultation & feed inputs into the Plan. 📑 Survey is open until 29 September 2025: eu-for-children.europa.eu/cyberbullyin...

On International Day to Protect Education from Attack, we reaffirm the crucial role of education – even in the hardest contexts. VOICE is proud of members like @planbelgium.bsky.social @savechildreneu.bsky.social @hias.org, and many more, who keep learning alive in crises. 🟠 Education brings hope.

Yesterday in Brussels, Team Save Europe stood with +100k people to show EU leaders a red card. We call for: definitive ceasefire, full humanitarian access, end to arms transfers, suspend the EU-Israel deal. 📽️ Watch, share, speak out — the EU must be held accountable NOW.

Today is the #InternationalDayOfCharity. But in Gaza, charity isn’t reaching starving children — because of a near-total siege on aid. We are no longer able to support starving families in Gaza. This famine is engineered & preventable. Children are paying the highest price.

Ali, 16, spent 196 days confined on #Samos — rarely leaving “safe area”, facing abuse & mental health collapse. This reflects a wider European trend. With @gcrefugees.bsky.social we urge EU & #Greece authorities to put children first 👉 resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/chi...

🎒 Back to school, back to work—it’s time to put children at the top of Europe agenda! In 2024 millions of children faced unparalleled challenges, but together with children, partners & institutions, we turned these challenges into real action. 📖 Read our 2024 European Activity Report: bit.ly/AAR24

“The Gaza Famine is here. Children are being starved to death.” Inger Ashing, @savechildrenintl.bsky.social CEO. This crisis is manmade. The EU must act now: lift aid restrictions, allow UN access, suspend arms transfers, use its leverage. Every day costs lives. savethechildren.net/news/save-ch...

“I can’t sleep, I can’t get on with my life.” These are not just words—they’re the reality for Ahmad Shikh Ali, separated from his child due to Europe's tightened reunification rules, with children paying the highest price. Full article below www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Three weeks ago, the EU announced a deal with Israel to allow aid into Gaza “at scale.” Since then: No access. No aid. No change on the ground. This isn’t a delay. It’s the continued denial of life-saving support for children. #LetAidIn #Gaza

“Hollow statements won't feed the children in Gaza who are starved to death before our eyes.” We are calling on EU to use every means of leverage to hold the Government of Israel accountable. “They have options, they just lack the political will to use them.” www.politico.eu/article/eu-g...

Today, as @europarl.europa.eu discusses EU #CorporateSustainability rules, we urge MEPs: ⚠️ Don’t let #Omnibus proposal weaken protections for children. Simplification must NOT come at the expense of #ChildRights. 📘 Learn how to protect them 👇 resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/chi... 1/4

🚨 Greece has suspended asylum for arrivals from North Africa & plans to detain all new arrivals in Crete. Save the Children warns: this decision violates EU and international law and puts children on the move at even greater risk. 🧵⬇️ 1/5 www.reuters.com/world/africa...

💡What’s the EU’s smartest move forward? Invest in children everywhere. Kids make up half the population in many partner countries — but get only a small share of EU aid. With the next #MFF on the horizon, our new paper shows why that must change👇 resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/the...

As Europe prepares its next #MFF, the EU could become a global leader in health & solidarity — without spending a euro more. Pooling national aid budgets or boosting instruments like NDICI/ECHO could become a game-changer. The question is: do EU leaders see it too? www.devex.com/news/opinion...

As the #GaviSummit starts in Brussels today, @savechildrenintl.bsky.social CEO Inger Ashing calls on world leaders and governments, including the EU, to fully fund @gavi.org — a partnership ensuring every child, everywhere, can survive and thrive.

Tomorrow at @gavi.org Pledging Summit in Brussels, Save the Children joins 150+ organisations worldwide calling for urgent funding. Vaccines protect everyone. Funding Gavi is one of the smartest choices leaders can make. 🎥 Hear why from @savechildrende.bsky.social CEO Florian Westphal #GaviSummit

Protect children, protect Europe – fund the fight against child poverty ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏽✊ The EU Alliance for #InvestinginChildren is urging @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @president.europarl.europa.eu @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu to make ending child poverty a core priority in the next #EUbudget.

On 25 June, leaders meet in Brussels for the #GaviSummit — a key moment to fund one of the world’s most impactful health partnerships. @gavi.org helps get vaccines to children everywhere. With global support, millions more lives can be saved by 2030.

#Gaza is the deadliest place in the world to be a child. Over 18,000 killed. Thousands more missing, maimed or living in terror. Ahead of #FAC today, where EU ministers will discuss the EU-Israel Association Agreement, we’ve sent a letter to @ec.europa.eu with a clear & urgent message 1/3

Momo* fled violence, but was detained and treated as an adult at Europe’s border. His story isn’t an exception.

Ahmed* was 16 when he arrived in Greece — and was shot at. Our new report #CrossingLines reveals how EU border policies are failing children.

New from Save the Children: our research, "Crossing Lines", reveals rights violations against migrant children at EU borders. #WorldRefugeeDay Read here to know more about our asks: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/cro...

🔴 We draw the #RedLine for children in #Gaza🔴 Yesterday over 110,000 people marched through Brussels to demand: Stop the killing. Stop the starvation. Stop the destruction. In just one year more than 18,000 children have been killed in Gaza. This is a war on children. We call on the EU to act NOW!

Govts & companies vowed to end child labour by 2025 – so why does the EU's #Omnibus package make it easier to look away? On #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour, we urge EU leaders to protect, not weaken, #CSDDD. Read our op-ed via @sustainableviews.bsky.social www.sustainableviews.com/to-eradicate...

1/5 This #WorldEnvironmentDay, we highlight a truth too often overlooked: 🌍 The climate crisis is a child rights crisis. Denise, 16, lost her home in Brazil’s worst floods in 80 years. She missed 2 months of school. Her story is one of many.

"The EU has finally taken steps against the Government of Israel's actions in #Gaza & to protect children. But they must go further & take every possible measure – including suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement." - Willy Bergogné, Save the Children Europe Director & EU representative

Team Save is at #EHF2025! We’re joining over 1,500 humanitarian actors in Brussels for the 4th #EuropeanHumanitarianForum, co-hosted by @ec.europa.eu and @poland25eu.bsky.social

930,000 children - 93% of #Gaza’s kids are facing famine. Nothing has been allowed to enter Gaza since the 2nd March. 🚨 This is a deliberate humanitarian catastrophe. Children are being starved by design 🚨 Statement: www.savethechildren.net/news/gaza-ne...

Indeed, Madam President, #EuropeDay is about the future. But also to ask: What kind of future are we building – and for whom? This week, the @europarl.europa.eu took an important step toward shaping that future when MEPs adopted Parliament's position on the future long-term #EUBudget #MFF ⬇️

As EU leaders shape the next #MFF, we handed them our guide + 3 powerful symbols: a pen, a MUAC band & a first aid kit, to remind them that children must be at the heart of every decision. Share if you think the same!

It’s #WorldLaughterDay — and if your Monday feels heavy, let this lift your spirits, even for a moment. Children's laughter and their right to joy is worth protecting, too 💛

We are proud to share that Save the Children’s Emergency Health Unit is now the first NGO maternal & newborn specialist Emergency Medical Team verified by @who.int — ready to deploy expert care during health emergencies to mothers & babies in their most critical moments ❤️ Read the full story 👇

Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in 50 years—6 every minute. But this progress is fragile. This #WorldImmunizationWeek, we urge the @ec.europa.eu to fund @gavi.org ’s next phase, champion equity, and protect hard-won progress in child health. The fight isn’t over. #VaccinesWork

In 2024 Greece saw record asylum applications -- 1 in 4 from children. In 2025 28% of arrivals so far being children. ⚠️ Overcrowded camps & unsafe “safe zones” ⚠️Gaps in guardianship 📢 EU must act Read our 🆕 brief w/ @gcrefugees.bsky.social ⬇️ resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/chi...

This week marks 106 years since Save the Children was founded. Meet #TeamSave. Since 1919, we’ve stood up for children through wars & crises. Today, the fight continues: conflict, rising costs, climate change. ✊ Defending rights ✊ Saving lives ✊ Protecting families We won't stop now. Join us.🩷

Meet Eglantyne Jebb, arrested in 1919 for demanding aid for all children, and who went on to found Save the Children, sparking a global movement for child rights. Her fight lives on — and so does the urgency to act.

Education saves lives. The EU has led by dedicating 10% of its humanitarian aid to education in emergencies. This commitment must continue.

What if lifesaving care was out of reach? Frishta* survived malnutrition thanks to an aid-funded clinic. But global aid cuts threaten care for millions of children. The EU must stay a principal donor to protect child health & survival—for lasting, transformative change. #WorldHealthDay

From harmful algorithms to misogynistic content: what Netflix’s #Adolescence tells us about children’s online safety. Rebecca Smith, Save the Children’s Global Head of Child Protection, shares steps for governments, tech firms & parents to protect children online 👉 www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-n...

Foreign aid is the difference between despair and hope. 45 million children suffer from malnutrition, and 5.6 million die from preventable causes yearly. Cutting aid disrupts healthcare, education, and global progress. Foreign aid builds a safer, more stable world—for everyone.

What is foreign aid? It’s a lifeline—helping children get healthcare, stay in school, and build a better future. More than survival, it’s hope. For 100+ years, we’ve fought for children. And we won’t stop now.

GAZA: Over 270 children reportedly killed in 1 week as Israeli airstrikes resume. Over 50,000 people now killed. We share the testimony of Rachael Cummings, Save the Children's Humanitarian Director, who is now in Deir el Balah, Gaza, witnessing the conflict.