Save the Children International

Description

Save the Children is an international non-governmental organization that works to improve children’s lives worldwide.

It runs health, education and protection programmes, and reaches tens of millions of children in more than 100 countries each year. It responds to humanitarian emergencies, delivers development programmes, and campaigns and advocates so that children’s voices are heard. Its stated goals for 2030 are that no child dies of preventable causes before age five, that all children get a quality basic education, and that violence against children is no longer tolerated.

The organization is a global membership body made up of Save the Children International and national member organizations, sharing one name and one strategy. More than 20,000 staff are employed across the network. It also runs a Child’s Rights Governance programme that helps children become advocates for their own rights.

Save the Children Fund was founded in London in 1919 by Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton, originally to relieve child starvation in Germany and Austria-Hungary after the First World War. Its mission later broadened into a permanent effort to protect children’s rights wherever they are threatened by hardship. It holds general consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council.