Changing children’s lives
Millions of children are still denied proper healthcare, food, education and protection. Our long-term development work focuses on giving them access to the basics they need to reach their potential.
Saving children’s lives
24,000 children under the age of five will die today — their lives cut short before they’d really begun. Most of their deaths could have been prevented. But the reality is that not every child has an equal chance of survival. Children from the poorest communities are most likely to die.
We stopped children dying from basic illnesses in rich countries a century ago. We can end it for good in poor countries too. Learn more about our biggest-ever campaign and read our report.
Influencing decision-makers
By combining our work with children all over the world with research and policy expertise, we influence the people who make decisions that affect children every day.
Our hunger, health, education and protection work aims to come up with long-lasting solutions to ongoing problems affecting the poorest children. Our work on rights and economic justice looks to research and explain the underlying reasons for the hardship so many children suffer.
- Feeling the heat
Climate change could kill 250,000 children next year. Our new report looks at how climate change affects children’s survival, and what needs to be done to save them.
- No one to turn to
Children are being sexually exploited and abused by the very people hired to help them
— aid workers and peacekeepers. This report examines the chronic under-reporting of abuse and proposes new solutions to tackle it.
- The next revolution
Nearly one child under the age of five dies just over every three seconds. Our report looks at where, how and why children are dying.
Here’s some of our latest policy work:
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Our paper on newborn health in Bangladesh won Paper of the Year from The Lancet. Read the press release.
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Hunger is now the biggest threat to child development across the world, with global progress on eradicating malnutrition slowing, stalling, or sliding into reverse in some countries. But Save the Children’s new international Child Development Index also reveals that some poor countries are making greater progress in reducing child deprivation.
