We work in the hardest-to-reach places, where it’s toughest to be a child. When you give to Save the Children, 85% of every dollar goes straight to our mission to provide lifesaving relief to children. $50 can provide enough food to keep 3 children from going hungry for a month. $150 can wrap 30 warm, cozy blankets around children affected by conflict

Ways to Give. Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. That’s why we do whatever it takes – every day and in times of crisis – to ensure children grow up healthy, learning and safe.

Explore our Work in the United States. Thanks to the generosity of donors like you, we help the nation’s most vulnerable children become ready for kindergarten – and excel by third grade – so they can succeed in school and in life.

Fulfilling Our Mission. Over 100 years ago, our founder said, “Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible – that there has always been child suffering and there always will be. We know it’s impossible only if we make it so. It’s impossible only if we refuse to attempt it.” Through the decades, Save the Children has continued to work to save children’s lives, and ...

About Save the Children. Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. Our founder Eglantyne Jebb saw children dying of starvation and wracked with disease after the end of the First World War. So, in 1919, she launched the Save the Children Fund to raise much-needed funds to end children’s suffering across war-torn Europe.

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Believe it or not, in 1919, when Eglantyne Jebb founded Save the Children, her conviction that children have the right to grow up healthy, educated and safe was not a mainstream idea.. Much has changed since then. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, based on our founder’s declaration, is now the most universally accepted human rights treaty in history.

Child Sponsorship: Your Ongoing Support with Save the Children Changes Lives. If you’re wondering “what is child sponsorship?” you’ve come to the right place. Save the Children pioneered child sponsorship in the early 1900s, bringing education, protection and safety to more than 1 billion children.. We’ve witnessed how much the world has changed since then, along …

Our Work Around the World. Every child deserves a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. Yet, an estimated 5.4 million children under age 5 still die each year from preventable causes, 250 million children around the world can’t read, despite years of schooling, and far too many children are experiencing physical and emotional abuse, sexual …

BANGKOK, (January 8, 2025) - Children made up just under half - 44% - of predominantly Rohingya refugees leaving Bangladesh and Myanmar by boat in 2024 as the number of people taking to sea continues to rise, with about 460 so far in 2025, Save the Children said. Last year, more than 7,800 Rohingya refugees embarked on perilous boat journeys, an increase of 80% …