Rising Up
With you and Save the Children in her corner, Shehab*, a 16-year-old Syrian refugee, has fought her way to a whole new life.
Born with a disability, she used to be the target of relentless bullying. It forced her out of school at Za'atari refugee camp. Everything changed when she found the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Centre. It's a rare girls-only space where 250 girls learn about everything from art to yoga to - in Shehab's case - boxing.
Watch Shehab in action in our amazing video below.
Good Stings Come In Threes
Meet Sandi, Soleman, and Anjar – aka Golden Scorpio. This small but mighty team from Sumba Island, Indonesia, were determined to solve their village’s water crisis. With training and support from Save the Children, they brought reliable clean water access to their community for the very first time.
Watch their story and see how this team of young changemakers transformed their community.
Daniela's story
Daniela lives with her family on a beautiful island in Vanuatu. She loves school, her brother JoJo and riding her BMX. But there is a dark side to life here – the increasingly intense cyclones that Daniella has seen flatten houses in her village and wipe out a whole season worth of crops in a matter of hours.
We’re helping to fund an initiative that came from the community to preserve the food they harvest, where people grow vegetables in a shared garden. The veg is then solar-dried, vacuum packed and stored at the village church – with Daniela’s parents Kaltang and Janet responsible for key stages of the solar-drying process.
So now, when hard times hit, everyone has proper food stored away. “If a cyclone comes, we already have food in the storeroom,” explains Daniela.
Get to know Daniela in the video below.
