Save The Children

Save the Children was founded to provide support for impoverished children in Appalachia during the Great Depression, and subsequently in Europe after World War II. Since then, it has expanded across the globe in its fight against child poverty, poor health, and illiteracy. While continuing to expand literacy in America, Save the Children focuses most of its efforts on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable communities. With its work in 2009 extending to more than 50 countries and 64 million children, Save the Children has become a leading advocate for child services in the developing world.

Save the Children is an active advocate for policy change at national and global levels. To accomplish its programs, it partners with a number of organizations, institutions, and governments—ensuring dissemination of ideas and mutual leadership. Its key programs areas include:

Child Protection
Programs reunify children with their families during emergencies while providing psychosocial support and child-friendly spaces; raise awareness and protect children from trafficking for sexual exploitation or labor; and provide quality care and integration for vulnerable populations including disabled or orphaned children
Education
Programs build schools, provide learning materials, train teachers, provide health and nutrition services and education for students, and work closely with local communities and governments to increase access to and safety of schools.
Health & Nutrition
Programs work with partners to expand access to health care and community health workers for children and their caretakers; integrate malaria, HIV/AIDS, and family planning; enhance child nutrition through breastfeeding promotion.
Livelihoods & Economic Development
Programs provide resources and support to sustain income after emergencies, implement savings systems and disaster risk reduction strategies to increase income resiliency, and offer investment opportunities and crop management training to expand business productivity.

Save the Children has been repeatedly rated among the top non-profit relief agencies, maintaining strong financial responsibility and transparency. Of $465.7 million total expenses in 2009, 89.7% went toward programs, with only 5.6% and 4.6% going toward fund-raising and administration respectively.

Help support the work of Save the Children across the world.