Campaigning for change
We campaign because we're outraged that millions of children are still denied proper healthcare, food, education and protection.
Our campaign successes
Your eyes are not deceiving you. This is Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, knitting a hat with the help of our youth ambassador Libby. Our Knit One, Save One campaign has received over 200,000 lovely woolly hats. These hats are going straight onto the heads of babies in countries like Tibet, to help prevent pneumonia and other preventable diseases that cause the needless deaths of two million babies every year. Do your bit and Knit One to Save One.
We've been holding fifth birthday parties and fun activities, and giving away great festival freebies at festivals across the country. Festival goers have given us a brilliant response to our campaign; raising awareness of childhood malnutrition. Over 2,000 people signed our action cards at Camp Bestival. We'll be attending a few more festivals yet. Come and visit us at a festival near you.
See what it's like to live in the slum town of Kroo Bay, Sierra Leone. It's one of the toughest places to be a child; one in five won't even make it to their fifth birthday. Our Film Kroo, children from Kroo Bay, had the opportunity to interview the first lady of Sierra Leone about drastically rising food prices. Watch the video.
Our first shipment of hats from our incredibly successful Knit One, Save One campaign reached Tibet in July. Check out our knitting update for more pictures of your hats on cute babies. Have you knitted a hat yet? It's easy; get knitting!
At a recent world record breaking Chinese Whisper event, 1,600 children signed our fifth birthday action cards. We're sending all these cards to the Prime Minister, to let him know he should be doing more to prevent 10 million children dying every year before they reach their fifth birthday. Fill in your action card.
Over 1,200 people have already signed our broccoli tree and joined the Fight for Food. Do you think kids should have bananas, instead of governments fuelling the bio-fuels trade? Do you think rice, and not red-tape, should take priority? Sign our tree!
Our Rewrite the Future campaign has been getting children in conflict-affected areas across the world back into education. 3.4 million children in more than 20 countries affected by conflict benefited in the first year of the campaign. Since launching both Gordon Brown and Hillary Benn have set out their vision for delivering education to children affected by conflict or living in fragile states. Find out more.
- Over 1,000 people have signed the Simple Solutions petition to Gordon Brown. We know that simple solutions could prevent the deaths of 10 million children under the age of five, every year. Add your voice to the petition.
- We're getting the Department for International Development (DfID) to pay more attention to child hunger and malnutrition. DFID Minister Gareth Thomas announced the establishment of a nutrition policy team. We'll be working with them to reduce child hunger.
Campaign with us
Take action to help us save children’s lives today
Campaigning - how do we do it?
- We use our worldwide experience to campaign for justice for all children.
- We challenge policy makers to adopt policies that create real and lasting change for the world's poorest children.
- We work with children and young people so that they can voice their concerns about issues which are important to them.
- We build alliances with other organisations to promote one, united voice on important issues, like End Child Poverty.
And that's where you come in - help us to get those arguments heard. Join our network of campaigners. Get your voice heard. Meet other people like you. And hear the latest news on events and hot issues. Get your friends to sign up too.
If you'd like more information about our campaigns, contact us: campaigns@savethechildren.org.uk
