As families' incomes plummet, millions more children go hungry and are forced to work and beg. 

Earthquake-impacted children in Türkiye and Syria still recovering from aftershocks three months on

TEENAGE PREGNANCY THREATENS TO BLOCK A MILLION GIRLS ACROSS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA FROM RETURNING TO SCHOOL

This need for a unified global response to the threat of COVID-19 has also been echoed by thousands of people surveyed in six major donor countries. This report looks at the findings of surveys, historical trends of pandemics and what a second wave of COVID-19 may look like as well as providing recommendations to prevent or mitigate additional waves. 

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COVID-19 poses a grave threat to the world’s children. As we showed in our previous report, while the mortality rate for healthy children infected by the virus has been lower than for adults and those with pre-existing conditions, 30 million are still at risk of illness and death. It is the indirect effects and impacts of this disease that pose a clear and present danger to children, particularly the most vulnerable.  This report looks at one those impacts of COVID-19 on girls and boys. Violence. We predict a major spike in the cases of children experiencing physical, emotional and sexual violence, both now and in the months and years to come. Whether they are forced to stay at home, or, in time, are sent to work or pushed into early marriage, boys and girls face a bleak future – unless governments, UN agencies, donors, NGOs, and the private sector do everything thing they can now to protect them. 

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Aftershocks always begin with a soft boom that reminds me of distant artillery fire. Then the earth begins to shake, or it used to. Lately, the tremors have been so intense the ground vibrates.

At 4:17 in the morning on 6 February, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck northwestern Turkey. According to the latest reports, this enormous tremor has already caused over 16,000 deaths in both Turkey and Syria, while over 20,000 are reportedly injured. At least 20 strong aftershocks have also been reported in southern and central Turkey and will likely continue for the next several days. The damage has been incredible, with dozens of cities and towns experiencing severe damage to infrastructure.

Thousands of people have been left homeless by the massive Nepal earthquake and are seeking shelter outside. World Vision Communications Coordinator Sunjuli Singh is in Kathmandu.