Save the Children UK
Member profile
Save the Children is a charitable organization founded in London in 1919. Save the Children was not expected to be a permanent organization, but it was called on to deal with emergency after emergency. Its mission is to fight for children’s rights with immediate and lasting improvement to children’s lives worldwide. The organization persuades governments and others who are responsible for children to do the right thing by them. It seeks out the most marginalized children, wherever they are in the world, so that means they work in a really broad range of countries, from fragile states like Afghanistan, to developed countries like in the United Kingdom.
Main activities
Save the Children is working to right the fundamental wrongs that affect children. They work closely with colleagues in the International Save the Children Alliance, both in their programs with children and in international campaigns and advocacy work. Its goals are:
- Saving children’s lives – specifically, through funding campaigns, to have a significant amount of children lives beyond their fifth birthday.
- Helping children in emergencies – response will be on a larger scale to help more children, ensuring that education is always part of the support package.
- Institutional donor relations – the fundraising will be increased with higher value and quality of relationships with key institutional donors, so that they can reach more children and more effectively.
Links to the health workforce crisis
Save the Children’s objective is to improve the resources for health systems including human resources for health - build the capacity of partner countries to train and retain an effective health workforce.
Call for knowledge information:
Alliance Members are invited to submit any relevant knowledge products such as documents, reports, tools, multimedia, links to specific project web sites by sending an email to ghwa@who.int. The Alliance Secretariat will publish relevant products on the Member's page.
Visit our Knowledge centre.
