How to donate to Save the Children

Save the Children is a charity dedicated to improving the lives of children worldwide, through helping in emergencies, crises and to get those who could be at a disadvantage a better start in life. They work across 16,000 countries worldwide and their mission is to by 2030 try to ensure no child dies of preventable causes before age 5, all children have a basic level of education and violence against children isn’t tolerated anywhere.

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About the charity

Save the Children was founded in 1919 in London to help children who were sick and malnourished at the end of World War One. The aim of Save the Children now is to create better educational opportunities, provide better healthcare and more economic opportunities for children across the world who need them.

The work of Save the Children

So, what does Save the Children do? They have various focuses ongoing to help improve the lives of needy or vulnerable children.

Child education

Save the Children works to improve child education around the world by promoting literacy programs and providing access to quality education and teacher training. The charity also works to provide safe learning environments and advocates for children’s right to education, especially for those living in poverty.

Child hunger

In 2021, Save the Children reached 26.5 million children across the world with their health and nutrition programme. Because of pandemics, crises and cost of living worries, one in four kids don’t get the nutritious food they need to help them reach their full potential. Save the Children aims to change that with teams across the world supporting with breastfeeding, vitamin supplements and help with cash to get children the nutrients they need.

Medicine

Basic medicine can save millions of lives every year – but there are still children passing away because they don’t have access to it. 50% of deaths under five are caused by infectious diseases, 16,000 under-5s die from preventable diseases and 1 child in 5 misses routine immunisations to help protect against this. Save the Children are working to get vaccines in poorer countries, working towards education against FGM and they have an emergency help unit to dispatch to the places that need it in emergencies.

How the charity uses donations

Save the Children has helped millions of children worldwide, including stepping up their emergency response when Covid hit and swept across the globe. According to the charity’s 2021 annual reports, they:

Reached 26.5 million children through its health and nutrition programmes.
Reached 12.2 million children through its education programmes.
Helped 4.1 million children through their child protection programmes – supporting children in war and high conflict zones, offering specialist mental health care to help with the psychosocial impact that has.
Reached 3.7 million children through their child poverty programmes.