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Learn how our corporate partners have helped Hamim, Raymart, Candida and Josh in 2011.


Learn how our corporate partners have helped Hamim, Raymart, Candida and Josh in 2011.

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Education

A group of girls read outside a Save the Children supported girls primary school in Bosthaun, Afghanistan.

A group of girls read outside a Save the Children supported girls primary school in Bosthaun, Afghanistan.

Education is vital to lasting positive change in children's lives. Yet for millions of children and youth in low-income countries and poor communities, a quality education is beyond reach. Many other kids are not prepared when they start school and drop out in the early grades. Save the Children reaches the world's most marginalized children — those who urgently need a better foundation for learning in the United States and around the world.

In 2010, Save the Children reached more than 11 million children in 39 countries with programs for early childhood and preschool learning, basic education and literacy and school health and nutrition. As a result, children come to school ready and healthy to lay the foundations of their education and with enthusiasm for learning.

Save the Children's education programs reach children at risk — girls, ethnic minorities, and children affected by rural poverty, HIV/ AIDS, conflict and natural disasters — from early childhood through young adulthood. We focus on communities in greatest need, design programs that make it easy to participate, even for children who work or have missed years of schooling, prepare toddlers for school, and make the lessons meaningful to children’s lives and local culture. What’s more, we are meeting the needs of children with disabilities who might otherwise never be able to go to school.

Girls and boys enrolled in education programs supported by Save the Children receive a quality education through outreach, teacher training, books and other learning materials. Time and again children in these programs score better on standardized tests than children enrolled in government schools.

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Literacy and Reading Programs
Girls Education
Educating Children Living in Conflict (Rewrite the Future)
Healing and Education through the Arts (HEART)
Rural America Outreach
Selena's Story: Staying in School
Early Childhood Development in Mali

How You Can Help

Charitable contributions from people like you make it possible for us to support education programs, and so much more. Please support our mission and work around the world with a gift to our Global Action Fund. You can count on us to be good stewards of your generous donation, helping vulnerable children where the need is greatest with whatever they need the most.

Last Updated May 2011

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In fiscal year 2010, 90 percent of all expenditures went to program services. That percentage is an average for all of Save the Children's programs worldwide. The percentage spent on any particular program may vary.
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