February – March Ukraine Appeal
On February 24th, Russia launched its attack on Ukraine. Hundreds of children have been killed and injured during the war. Save the Children has worked in Eastern Ukraine since 2014. Save the Children is providing cash transfers so families can pay their rent or buy life saving medicines as well as supporting health clinics and schools. It is working hard to protect children by running child safe spaces where children can play, socialise and be children again, as well as providing child protection services to ensure that children and families remain together and separated children are safely reunited with their care givers.
The manager of Deal Aldis immediately agreed to our request to hold collections for Ukraine in their store. With their support, and scouts acting as collectors, Deal Save the Children raised over £2000 in just a few weeks for the emergency appeal. Just £46 will give a family who have escaped the war in Ukraine enough food for a month. We are so grateful to Aldis for enabling the collection as well as the scouts for collecting as well as the support of local people by being so generous in their donations.

Scouts across Deal helped raise £2,928 for the Save The Children Deal Branch via supermarket collections at Aldi.

St.George’s Day

at their St. George’s Day Parade collection in April.

Christmas Carol Singing at the Landmark Centre in Deal
The Deal Savoyards were again so kind to sing for Save the Children outside the Landmark Centre. The scouts were wonderful in their support by collecting for the charity. It was a bitterly cold day but the atmosphere was lovely and everyone thoroughly enjoyed the singing of the choir. We made £343 for Save the Children. We are also extremely grateful to the Manager of the bar at the Landmark Centre as she generously provided free refreshments and mince pies for the collectors and singers which was very welcome!
We raised a total of £374.74









Collecting on Saturday 3rd December at the Landmark Centre with assistance from members of Deal Scouts.
Save the Children exists to help every child reach their full potential. In the UK and around the world, we make sure children stay safe, healthy and keep learning, so they can become who they want to be.
The three main challenges that we have faced this year are to respond to the invasion by Russia on Ukraine, to help millions of children affected by the drought-driven hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa and to provide support for families in the UK affected both by the pandemic as well as the cost of living crisis. We have also provided life saving humanitarian aid to victims of the Pakistan floods, the Indonesian earthquake, and the wars in Syria and Afghanistan.
Save the Children has been working in Ukraine since 2014. Right now, we are providing emergency aid to those fleeing the devastating war by delivering clothing, cash grants so families can pay rent or buy food, providing hygiene items, and toys to children. We are also providing child protection services to ensure that children and families remain together and that separated children are safely reunited with their care givers. We are working with local organisations to support schools and health clinics, providing vital mental health support to families who have witnessed unimaginable trauma. Together with local partners, it is running child family spaces where children can be helped to recover from the trauma they have experienced by learning to play, socialise and be children again.
Three failed rainy seasons in a row have resulted in the East Africa drought which has killed crops and livestock that families rely on. Climate change combined with locust infestations and the impacts of Covid 19 and local conflict have created the perfect conditions for famine. Children in East Africa are on the brink of one of the worst famines in 40 years. Right now, more than 2 million children in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan are in the grip of severe acute malnutrition.
Here in the UK, the families of our poorest children are struggling even more than before to make ends meet. Save the Children responded by putting in place an Emergency Grants Programme. The grants help families purchase basic household items as well as food. The UK Building Blocks programme provides low income families with essential household items such as a bed cooker, books or toys as well as learning resources and information that gives parents the skills and confidence to help their child. During the pandemic, we also provided assistance and guidance to parents who were struggling with home schooling of their child. Over the last 5 years in the UK, we have helped over 100 000 children get the best start at home and school. Many of the UK’s poorest children start school struggling to speak. Evidence shows that children who start behind often struggle to catch up and then fall further behind at school. Save the Children focuses on providing opportunity during the critical first years of life and helping to make a change at the earliest point.