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Campaigns to Help Children in Need
Save the Children’s mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. In addition to responding to emergencies and disasters, the organization aims to effect long-term, sustainable development in some of the poorest and most conflict-ridden communities in the world. The following two campaigns highlight Save the Children’s pioneering work in these fields. See Where the Good Goes Every four seconds a child survives thanks to the basic healthcare provided by local health workers. Front line local health workers help children all over the world survive threats like newborn complications, pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and malnutrition. But global estimates suggest the world needs 4.2 million more health workers in developing countries. Sadly, one child dies every three seconds largely from preventable and treatable causes due to the lack of basic health care. Save the Children and the Ad Council teamed up in 2010 to mobilize U.S. citizens to help local health workers across the world to save more children. We have launched a new interactive web site, www.GoodGoes.org, for our supporters to learn more about child survival, the role of the local health worker and ways to help. The new site features videos, blog posts and a customized Google map showing how health workers travel in their communities, their village routes, and the children and families they help. Learn More at GoodGoes.org:
Help local health workers bring the good to the children who need it most. Of the children under the age of 5 who die each year, almost 2/3 could be saved with the simple low-cost interventions delivered by health workers in clinics and in their communities. With attention from developing country governments and donor nations, we can help them bring lifesaving care to more hard-to-reach communities and make the survival of children a reality worldwide. Rewrite the Future More than 75 million children are growing up today without an education and 40 million children are out of school in areas affected by warfare. Millions more living in conflict-affected countries are receiving a substandard education. Save the Children's Rewrite the Future program seeks to help millions of children in conflict-affected areas gain access to, and reap the current and future benefits of, a quality education.
Schools are vital in protecting children and supporting their emotional and social development by giving them comfort, security and opportunity. The routine of school develops a sense of normality and the environment is one in which children are allowed to be children. Launched in 2006, Rewrite the Future already has improved the quality of education for over 10 million children. Save the Children has trained over 25,000 teachers and is co-leading a Global Education Cluster for education in emergencies. In a joint statement released Nov. 20, 2008, 31 winners of the Nobel Peace Prize enlisted by Save the Children called for urgent action to implement quality education and build peace in conflict-affected countries. In addition, hundreds of writers worldwide have joined Save the Children in demanding that all children have the opportunity to attend school. Learn more about Rewrite the Future Last Updated May 2010 |
