Over the last 90 years we have helped achieve vital breakthroughs for children and have saved millions of children’s with the help of our supporters. With your support we can make history in the future together.
A quarter of the donations provided by supporters come from people who have kindly left a gift in their will to Save the Children. Without them, we couldn’t have achieved these milestones for children:
- Our report “Unemployment and the Child” helped ensure children in the UK got free school milk in 1944
- We opened the first of many tuberculosis clinics and child health care centres in 1955
- We helped reunite 40,000 children with their families in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in 1994
- We helped children and their families rebuild their lives after the devastating Boxing Day tsunami hit Asia in 2004.
Saving children’s lives in the future
There is nothing as sad as a life cut short before it has even really begun. In Rwanda one in five children don’t get to celebrate their fifth birthday. We stopped children dying from preventable illnesses like diarrhoea, measles, malaria and pneumonia in rich countries a century ago. We can stop them dying in poor countries too.
EVERY ONE is our campaign to save children’s lives. We need to double our investment in our child survival programmes. If we do, with those additional funds we will help newborn babies survive, reduce malnutrition and train more health workers. A gift in your will could help us save more children’s lives around the world in the future.
In 2009, 887 people left gifts in their wills to Save the Children. We are so grateful to those individuals whose commitment to children inspired them to carry out such a special act.
