Against All Odds for Children: Sub-Saharan Africa Impact Report 2025

This Africa Impact Report captures Save the Children’s work across Sub-Saharan Africa in 2025, a year marked by escalating humanitarian crises, funding constraints, and growing pressure on children and families. The report highlights progress in strengthening children’s survival, learning, and protection across 23 country offices, despite overlapping challenges including conflict, climate shocks, economic instability, and displacement.

It documents critical programming in health, nutrition, education, child protection, and emergency response, as well as advocacy efforts to safeguard children’s rights in complex contexts. The report also reflects the resilience, adaptability, and commitment of teams working on the frontlines to sustain life-saving assistance and maintain presence in fragile environments.

This report serves as both a record of challenges faced and a testament to the impact achieved against the odds, anchored in the enduring mission to ensure that every child survives, learns, and is protected, no matter the context.