This article reports how charities claim that sharp cuts to international humanitarian aid have forced desperate mothers in refugee camps to abandon their children because they can no longer feed or care for them amid collapsing services, food shortages, and dwindling support that once sustained families, creating what aid groups describe as an explosion of “practically orphaned” children. The article highlights how reduced funding has crippled basic services, leaving caregivers unable to meet children’s needs and deepening the crisis facing displaced families who were already struggling for survival.