Save the Children

Genesis of Save the Children

Save the Children’s roots are embedded in the life story of Jeb Eglantyne and Dorothy Buxton, two British sisters who started Save the Children Fund in 1919 after World War I to raise money to provide emergency aid to children suffering from shortages of food and supplies across Europe.

By the middle of the 1920’s, they started to focus their work on children’s rights. In 1931, Save the Children started to work in Africa, opening schools in Ethiopia in 1936. The advent of WWII saw them focus their work on the UK and the children there. 

They also planned how they could help other children post war and, when the war ended, Save the Children staff were often among the first people who went into liberated areas, to provide help to refugees and orphaned children. Since then SC has been active in stable development settings as well as in ongoing crises and major disasters.

Today Save the Children is an International Organization whose vision is: a world which respects and values each child, which listens to children and where children have hope and opportunity.

And to support this vision Save the Children’s mission is “To inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.” Click to view

The right to Livelihood 

The Livelihood and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programme aims at increasing household economic and food security in the best interest of children.  

This is done by ensuring that targeted households improve quantity and quality of agricultural yields and livestock. The program also aims at help households, and communities to prepare, mitigate, adapt and increase resilience toward the impact of disasters.

The Right to protection against HIV/AIDS

The HIV and AIDS programme aims to protect children from HIV infection and promote their survival and wellbeing.

The program addresses the HIV/AIDS pandemic through preventive strategies, provision of care and treatment, and impact mitigation on households in order reduce infection among children and youths.

Working with families, community groups, local governments and other partners Save the Children strengthens local capacities to protect vulnerable children, prevent the spread of HIV, and care for community members infected with HIV/AIDS. Read more