Campaigns

This summer we collected over 250,000 thumbprints in the UK and across Africa as part of our Make Your Mark campaign. Celebrities, including KT Tunstall and Florence from Florence and the Machine,  joined in. See more celebrities making their mark.

Over 200,000 of you joined our call for a lasting ceasefire to the conflict between Israel and Hamas that took place in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel during the winter of 2008 to 2009. Your actions really made a difference. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown heard your voices and played a leading role in pushing for the ceasefire. The UK government also pledged £20 million in humanitarian aid. Campaigning plays a vital role in the work that we do to change children's lives. Please continue to add your voice to our campaigns.

Students at Pakwelo School, which is supported by Save the Children, in Kuniana camp, Northern Uganda. During 20 years of intense fighting between the Ugandan government and rebels, hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes to escape the fighting and an entire generation has lost out on an education. In the first three years of our Rewrite the Future campaign, we’ve managed to improve the quality of education for 5.7 million children around the world. We’re determined to reach our target of getting an extra 3 million children into school by the end of 2010.

At the UN General Assembly Health Summit in September we helped to persuade Prime Minister Gordon Brown to secure funding to provide free healthcare in six developing countries, potentially benefitting 12 million children. Thanks to all of you who took action. Read Gordon Brown's letter to you. Find out more about our EVERYONE campaign to save millions of children's lives.  

UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband and our CEO Jasmine Whitbread at the Save the Children reception during the Labour Party Conference 2009. As part of the busy Party Conference season, we met with senior political leaders and prospective candidates for the next Parliament, and held a number of events to build support for our work to change the lives of the poorest children at home and abroad. Find out more. We also kicked off the General Election campaign with the launch of our manifesto: ‘Notes to a Prime Minister on saving children’s lives.’

On 10 February 2009, four youth campaigners delivered a giant birthday card to No.10 Downing Street, representing the 14,000 fifth birthday cards we have collected from our supporters. The cards had personal messages from our campaigners demanding that Gordon Brown helps to stop millions of children dying before their fifth birthday. Read more.

We delivered 800,000 knitted hats to babies and young children across the world through our Knit One Save One campaign. Thanks to the efforts of our volunteer knitters, babies in countries, including Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt and Tibet, now have a better chance of survival.