Our past inspires us to believe in the future
2009
Saving lives of children under 5
Our biggest ever campaign, to save millions of children from dying each year.
2008
Save the Children responds to Asian emergencies
Cyclone Nargis hits Myanmar's coast, China rocked by earthquake
Relief work has its moments of enchantment, its unexpected vistas into new
worlds.
2006
Together We Can Rewrite the Future
Save the Children's first global campaign: better education for children in conflict
1994
"The world's children stand in urgent need of better protection"
Reuniting families after the genocide in Rwanda
2003
"School is more important than food, more important than anything else!"
Helping families after the Iraq war
2004
The most complex humanitarian disaster in our history
South Asia tsunami kills 225,000 people, displaces millions
1989
International law to protect children's rights
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted, more than 80 years after Eglantyne Jebb's original draft
1988
I want to be "like everyone else"
Can you have a new lease of life after being a child soldier?
1967
"We spend a million pounds on destruction; when shall we spend it on rescuing children?"
Vietnam War
1970s
"We can be sure that those whom we help today will help us tomorrow"
Full circle: Vulindlela's story
1976
Rebuilding lives - and building local Save the Children organisations
Responding to Guatemala earthquake
1963
Our grassroots activists change children's lives
Knitting for children - Save the Children's campaign
The human race has an obligation to protect its weaker members
1958
Fungus, parasitic diseases, infected wounds, tuberculosis
Saving lives of Algerian refugees in Morocco
1959
A step forward for children's rights
United Nations adopts the Declaration on the Rights of the Child
1950s
Helped as a child, Professor Hwang is now helping other children today
All wars, just or unjust, are waged against
the child.
1936
The world's independent organization for children
Assisting children caught on both sides of the Spanish Civil War
1937
Responding to humanitarian needs
Chinese Ambassador's Appeal to the Save the Children Fund during Japanese war
1938-
1940s
"All wars, just or unjust, are waged against the child"
Helping children in World War Two
1932
"Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world"
The Great Depression
1923
"I believe we should claim certain rights for children for their universal recognition"
Save the Children founds children's rights
1928
"Mankind as a whole is responsible for the world as a whole"
Eglantyne Jebb dies but her legacy lives on
1931
"In co-operative action we have an instrument of incalculable potency"
First conference on African children
1920
"We have to devise means to touch the imagination of the world"
A pioneering newspaper campaign
1919
"A child is a child, whether red, white, brown or black"
The Foundation of the "Save the Children Fund"
