London, United Kingdom · Established 1919
Save the Children
Every last child.
(About)
A century-old movement transforming children's lives through education, health, and protection.
Save the Children was founded in London in 1919 by Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton, initially to feed children starving in Germany and Austria under the Allied blockade after the First World War — a cause deeply unpopular in Britain at the time. Jebb also drafted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, adopted by the League of Nations in 1924 and the direct ancestor of the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The organisation is now a global movement of 29 member organisations coordinated through Save the Children International, working in around 115 countries. Programmes combine long-term development work in health, nutrition and education with rapid humanitarian response in conflicts and disasters, and the movement is one of the largest independent providers of education in emergencies.
Its policy work focuses on child protection systems, safeguarding, and holding donor governments to their commitments on children in humanitarian crises.
(Verified profile)
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Structure & mandate
Global movement of 29 member organizations coordinated by Save the Children International, founded by Eglantyne Jebb in 1919. Author of the original Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1924).
Key public programmes
- ▸Child survival, health and nutrition in low- and middle-income countries
- ▸Education in emergencies and safe learning spaces
- ▸Child protection systems strengthening and child-safeguarding advocacy
Founded
1919
HQ
London
United Kingdom
Countries of work
10+
Primary sources
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(Public perception & reviews)
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(Work in the field)
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(Where we operate)
Active in 10 countries.
- Bangladesh
- Ethiopia
- India
- Nigeria
- Kenya
- Afghanistan
- Yemen
- Syria
- Colombia
- Somalia
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