The devastating 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires upended child care for thousands of families – and left many children carrying the heavy emotional toll of watching their communities torn apart.
Donor support enabled us to provide immediate relief as well as scale up our long-term recovery efforts like helping children safely return to learning, ensuring childcare providers can re-open their doors as soon as possible and restore families’ sense of normalcy.
Save the Children has been helping America’s children recover from major disasters for over 20 years. Your continued support makes this possible.
Our Response: How we're helping families recover and rebuild in the Greater Los Angeles area
In the wake of the wildfires, Save the Children has been working together with child-care networks and partners to ensure children return to learning, re-establish their normal routines, build resilience and heal.
We are helping provide essential items, including clothing, school supplies, hygiene kits and more.
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We're helping to restore child care and early learning centers damaged by the catastrophic wildfires.
Our psychosocial team is offering mental health and psychosocial support to children and caregivers.
The LA wildfires destroyed a total of 64 daycare centers. One of them belonged to Turosca.
Before the fires, her childcare center served 14 children ages 2-5. Despite losing her own home, she was determined to help others — especially after seeing displaced children and families in donation lines.
With support from Save the Children, Turosca cleaned up her facility and started offering free child care to families impacted by the wildfires. Her center now serves 43 children — including many whose childcare centers burned down.
As Turosca told us, “The support that we have received from Save the Children has been truly amazing, actually a blessing to my business and to the kids. I think that it helped rebuild hope and joy in our community."
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