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Background Information About Save the Children

‘‘We cannot leave defenseless children anywhere exposed to ruin – moral or physical’’ Eglantyne JebbFounder of the Save the Child Organization

Background InformationSave the Children

• Eglanyne Jebb founded the Save the Children Fund in England in 1919 to aid children in war-ravaged central Europe.

• In 1932 a group of forward-thinking Americans were inspired by the Jebb’s vision and established Save the Children in the United States. 

• In 1950, Save the Children expanded education and farming programs to France, Holland, Italy, West Germany, Austria, Finland, Greece, Lebanon and South Korea.

• In 1970’s Save the Children’s international headquarters moved to its current location in Westport, Connecticut.  By the end of the decade, operating revenues had grown to $12.5 million and our programs reached children in 400 communities on five continents.

• http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6229507/k.C571/History.htm

Current Situation

Current Situation • Save the Children is the world's leading independent

organization for children. Their operation has reached nearly 120 countries.

• Total revenue of the organization has reached $600 million in 2012 and Save the Children use this budged more than 87% on their programmes.

• In 2012 Savethe Children responded to 77 humanitarian rises caused by conflict and natural disaster, assisting 5.8 million children in 46 countries.

• Organizatation trained 96.000 health workers

• Save the Child vaccained 1.3 million children

• Education programmes reached 5 miilion child in the world in 2012

• http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4438#.Uwit8mJ_uLp

Current Situation

• Financial Breakdown for Incomes and Expendures

MAIN PROJECTS• Every Beat Matters• Vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival,

protection, development and participation

• Goal is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives

• Objective is to ensure that children in need grow up protected and safe, educated, healthy and well-nourished, and able to thrive in economically secure households

• Training local health workers

• Protecting vulnerable children from abuse and exploitation

• Helping communities in at-risk countries to be prepared in advance of natural disasters

• Improving children's health through regular exercise

http://www.everybeatmatters.org/about

Every One Campaign

• Vision is that no child under the age of 5 dies from preventable causes.

• Goal is that Millennium Development Goal 4 – a two thirds reduction in child mortality rates by 2015 – is achieved

• Objective is that by 2015 The project will have catalyzed a breakthrough in governments’ policy and practice that dramatically accelerates sustainable progress towards MDGs 4 and 5.

What they are doing;

• Every one in Pakistan,a glance at 2013

• Treating Pneumonia in remote areas in Banglades

• LifeSaving Community Volunteers in Nigeria

• Another Milestone for the long awaited Health Bill in Nigeria.

http://everyone.savethechildren.net/about

MAIN PROJECTS

Saving Newborn Lives (SNL)

• Focus on testing and replicating scalable packages of newborn care services within existing large-scale health systems

• Goal reducing 1990 child survival rates by two thirds by 2015 – the mandate of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4.

• High-impact and cost-effective interventions

• Easy-to-apply antibiotics to ensuring warmth

• Initiates breast-feeding at birth

• Increase availability of and access to routine and emergency newborn care services and supplies 

• SNL program works to develop, apply, document, and sustain packages of effective evidence-based newborn care services

• (http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6234293/k.7FC1/Newborn_Health.htm)

MAIN PROJECTS

Success Stories• West Africa Hunger Crisis

• Throughout 2012 they have reached over 1.3 million people in West Africa and raised a fund of over $37 million. http://www.savethechildren.org/atf/cf/%7B9def2ebe-10ae-432c-9bd0-df91d2eba74a%7D/WEST_AFRICA_REPORT_SIX_MONTHS_ON.PDF

• Haiti• Medicine and help of treatment for Cholera especially after the earthquake

• Educational interventions which helped to increase the primary school enrollment from %49 in 2006 to %76 in 2012.

• Health and nutrition interventions to over 16 thousand children only in 2013. o http://www.savethechildren.org/atf/cf/%7B9DEF2EBE-10AE-432C-9BD0-DF91D2EBA74A%7D/

HTIEARTHQUAKE_FOURYEARREPORT_10JAN14_USA.PDF

Failure Stories• Sponsorship Scandal in 1998

• An investigation about the Chicago Turbine revealed that two dozen donors were making donations to dead children.

• An employee was forced to resign as a result and the organization had started a full investigation of all the audits. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-03-18/news/9803220001_1_special-report-child-sponsorship-children-federation

• Pakistan Inquiry in 2012• Dr. Shakil Afridi was said to be working for CIA, performing a fake

vaccination campaign in order to gather intelligence.

• Save the Children denied any connection between them and Dr. Afridi or the fake vaccination campaign. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/09/pakistan-evicts-save-the-children-foreign-workers.html

• ChildFund provides services to children, mostly funded by individual contributors in the form of monthly child sponsorships. In addition, ChildFund says it receives grants and donations that support vocational training, literacy training, food distribution, educational programs, early childhood development, health and immunization programs, nutritional programs, water and sanitation development, and emergency relief in both man-made and natural disasters.

Other Similar NGO’s• World Vision is a humanitarian organization dedicated to

working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. They work in nearly 100 countries. We provide emergency assistance to children and families affected by natural disasters and civil conflict, work with communities to develop long-term solutions to alleviate poverty, and advocate for justice on behalf of the poor.

• http://www.worldvision.org/about-us/who-we-are

Other Similar NGO’sFor over 75 years, Children International has been providing critical assistance to children and families struggling in terrible poverty. Through our one-to-one child sponsorship program, we reduce the burden of poverty on impoverished children, invest in their potential and provide them with opportunities to grow up healthy, educated and prepared to succeed and contribute to society.

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