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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Ways to Help. If you’re wondering how to help children in need – please know that every little bit counts. A blanket. Clean water. Educational supplies for schools that have none.

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.

Save the Children gives children in the United States and around the world what every child deserves – a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When disaster strikes, we put children's needs first. We advocate for and achieve large-scale change for children. We save ...

Transforming Lives and Futures. All across the globe, children are dying from preventable causes, missing out on education due to poverty, suffering from violence, exploitation and neglect, and are vulnerable in times of crisis.In every corner of the world, children need a strong voice to stand up for them, work on their behalf and make their lives better.