Ensuring Lasting Change from Day One
From training midwives through to setting up Emergency Health Units, we work to enable safe birth.
It's the very first of many ways that we help to create lasting change for and with children.
Anne (pictured), one of our Midwives in Rwanda, works in a maternity ward at a medical facility run by Save the Children in Mahama Refugee Camp.
Midwives like Anne go where they’re needed most – from war zones and refugee camps, to borders and remote communities.
Your monthly donation could provide children and families affected by war, natural disasters and other crisis across the world, with life-saving essentials like food, water and healthcare.
Meet Shukuru*
Shukuru* is a Congolese mother who is pregnant with her sixth child. This pregnancy, and imminent birth, are a world away from the previous five.
In DRC, Shukuru had to walk for three hours along a dangerous road to get to a hospital to give birth: "I was afraid I would be killed or lose my baby" she says.
Skukuru and her family fled DRC due to the conflict and made it to the Mahama Refugee Camp, where life looks very different.
Shukuru* is due to give birth very soon - at our newly revamped Save the Children Medicalised Health Centre: “Here in Rwanda, I feel good in my body, I also feel that the baby is growing well.'
Without our team of over 300,000 regular donors, long-term projects that change the lives of mothers like Shukuru simply would not be possible. Join us today.
*We've changed Shukuru's name to keep her safe.
How your regular gift helps keeps mothers and babies safe
1 in 8 women around the world give birth without access to medical help.
Your regular donations enable us to provide:
- Safe births with trained midwives
- Emergency Health Units and specialist birthing kits
- Life-saving equipment and medicines
No one should have to give birth alone and risk losing their baby or their life.
With your ongoing support, we can give mothers and babies a chance at the births they deserve.
Why Your Donation Matters
For over 100 years Save the Children have fought for a fairer world for children.
Month after month, in the UK and around the world, we make sure children stay safe, healthy and keep learning through the toughest times. Whether they're at risk due to conflict, poverty or the global food crisis we ensure we are there providing vital resources such as food, water, education and mental health support to ease their suffering and help recovery.
We could not do this without our supporters who give a donation every month.
Monthly donations allow us to plan for the long term. To be not just reactive, but proactive in thousands of projects helping children across the world, all designed with one thing in mind: to improve the lives of children.
How Your Donation Can Help
Save the Children’s ambition is a world in which every child has the right to survive, learn and be protected. We were founded on the belief that every child deserves the chance of a future. This belief underpins everything we do.
Together with families, supporters and partners, we work to help every child get the future they deserve - focusing our efforts where the need is greatest.
Your donation could help ensure children:
- Get a healthy start in life: From training midwives through to setting up Emergency Health Units, we work to enable safe birth.
- Learn and go to school safely: Campaigning for marginalized and poverty stricken children, setting up temporary learning spaces and repairing damaged schools in conflicts.
- Protect children from hunger: Our teams provide counselling, breastfeeding support, malnutrition screening, vitamin supplements and cash transfers.
- Grow up in resilient families: Our family tracing team work tirelessly all over the world to reunited children parents and siblings for a lifetime of belonging.
