Save the Children

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Save the Children is an international non-profit organization dedicated to working for children.

The current stated mission (of its UK branch) is to 'fight for children in the UK and around the world who suffer from poverty, disease, injustice and violence" and "work with them to find lifelong answers to the problems they face'.

Save the Children was founded 1919 by Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton in the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the First World War.

Their goal then was to create 'a powerful international organisation, which would extend its ramifications to the remotest corner of the globe'.

Eglantyne Jebb was the first to press for worldwide safeguards for children. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations in 1989 and now ratified by nearly all countries worldwide, has its roots in her pioneering work.

Basing its operations on the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child, Save the Children works worldwide to provide emergency relief as well as long-term development and prevention work to help children, their families and communities to be self-sufficient.

There are 27 Save the Children organisations in the International Save the Children Alliance, the world’s largest independent movement for children, making improvements for children in over 111 countries (see where Save the Children works worldwide [1])

As well as long term programmes the organisation responds immediately to emergencies such as the Humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, Hurricane Katrina and food crises around the world.

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