Success!
We collected 63,569 thumbprints as part of our press for change campaign. These thumbprints contributed to an overall global total of 3 million which was presented at the Summit in New York.
We couldn’t have achieved this without your support. Thank you.
Due to all your campaigning actions:
- Nick Clegg has announced plans to double number of women and children's lives saved in poorer countries; and
- The UN has launched a worldwide campaign to save 16 million mothers and children over the next 5 years.
Mummy bloggers and blogladesh twitter campaign
10 million of you followed our blogladesh mummy bloggers on twitter, through their journey to Bangladesh. Through seeing how we work first hand, they were inspired to ask leaders to press for change for children and mums across the world. Read all about their inspirational journey.
We followed mummy blogger, Sian To, all the way to New York to the UN Summit where she interviewed Andrew Mitchell, Secretary of State for International Development and even met with Nick Clegg.
The popular online forum, Mumsnet, held a webchat with Nick Clegg about the Millennium Development Goals. Their webchat with Clegg gave us a chance for our campaigners to meet him. Our mummy blogger Josie George was there to interview Nick Clegg , along with local campaigner Samir Jahan.
Super campaigning from our local supporters
Samir Jahan, age 18 first started campaigning with Save the Children just over a year ago. He has done some amazing local campaigning for press for change and went on to meet Nick Clegg twice as part of his campaigning success.
Read Samir's blog about his journey and what it is like to be a campaigner for Save the Children.
Our long-term super campaigners, Graham and Pauline Evans met David Cameron at his local pub in Witney. The Evans' handed in our campaigns dossier at Mr Cameron's constituency office.
Inspirational women for press for change
Some of the most influential and powerful women in the world, from all walks of life, signed up to a statement in support of our global call to end the scandal of 9 million children dying every year. Claire Danes was at the Millennium Development Goals summit in New York to be the 3 millionth person to give her thumbprint to our global campaign and Mariella Frostrup read the statement out live to Nick Clegg at a charity event in London.
Read the influential women's statement
Press for change events
From Bristol to Birmingham and Bestival to the Big Chill we have been up and down the country collecting your thumbprints to really make a difference for some of the poorest kids around the world. Find out where we were and view photos from the events