For Children, Forever

• Following the Second World War we worked with refugee families and concentration camp survivors in devastated areas of France, Yugoslavia, Poland and Greece. 
• By the 1960s Save the Children had full medical and welfare teams in 17 countries and its work extended to 26 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the West Indies.
• In 1964 war in Korea left thousands of children destitute. We set up a healthcare clinic, feeding centre and playground in a refugee camp, and worked alongside children for 20 years. 
• Throughout the 1970s we ran development programmes and emergency responses in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Honduras and the Sahel region of Africa.
• When famine hit Ethiopia in the 1980s, we raised the alarm and distributed life-saving food supplies, feeding 7,000 malnourished children a day. 

• During the 1990s, we continued to work with children affected by war in Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Angola and the Balkans.
• Following the Rwandan genocide in 1994, lots of children became separated from their families. Our family tracing and reunification programme helped reunify more than 40,000 children with their families.
• Our five-year response to the 2004 Asian tsunami was one of the largest in Save the Children's history, reaching around 1 million people.  
• During the worst ever outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in 2016, we reached 4.6 million people in West Africa, including more than 2 million children, and ran a specialist treatment centre in Sierra Leone,
• When COVID-19 hit the UK, our emergency response plan made sure 10,000 children were well-fed, safe and able to keep learning.

• Our 1933, research report, 'Unemployment and the Child: An Enquiry', showed that mass unemployment affects children's nutrition. We campaigned for children's right to adequate nutrition until the Education Act of 1944 provided school meals and milk throughout the UK.
  
• By the 1960s our Freedom from Hunger projects in Korea, Morocco, Nigeria and the West Indies, which aimed to prevent the causes of famine and food shortages, were beginning to show results.
• In 1979, we launched the Stop Polio Campaign as part of an attempt to eradicate polio worldwide.

• In the 1980s we set up education, prevention and treatment projects to combat the prejudice and misconception around the spread of HIV and AIDS, 
• Save the Children became an important part of the global effort to achieve the Millenium Development Goals which decreed that by 2015 child mortality should be cut by two-thirds, extreme poverty and hunger halved, and that all children would be able to go to school.  Between 1990 and 2011, the number of children dying before the age of five fell from nearly 12 million to less than 7 million.
  
• In 2016 we launched our No Child Born to Die campaign, raising awareness of the number of child deaths globally and helping save millions of children’s lives through vaccinations, nutrition and newborn health work.

Our Emergency Fund allows us to respond wherever and whenever we're needed most.

It allows us to respond within hours of a disaster, so we can reach children immediately and help them survive.

Around a third of under-5s in Vietnam don't get the nutritious food they need. As a result, they grow up stunted. 

Our nutrition programme aims to improve the diets of under-2s and women.

In 2018, our Advancing the Right to Read programme in Rwanda supported over 270,000 children with their reading and gave over 7,500 parents and caregivers training in how to boost their child’s education.