100 years, 1 billion kids and a new mission: SavetheChildren celebrates centennial
Save the Childen ambassador and trustee Jennifer Garner visited centers in New Mexico on June 12.
A century after the organization's founding by Eglantyne Jebb to aid London orphans of World War I, president and CEO Carolyn Miles says that when it comes to displacement and medical and relief needs, "kids in conflict is where statistics have gotten much, much worse in the last decade," adding that they're "up 80 percent since 2000" — a reference to this year's Global Childhood Report, which underscores the bleak reality driven by wars in Syria, Somalia, South...
Smulders has been an active participant in the organization’s L.A. initiatives, volunteering with Save the Children’s early learning and after-school programs in San Bernardino County and remembering “how excited these children were to stay after school to read and learn. It was so inspiring to see their happy faces, and it really speaks to the great work Save the Children is doing in these rural communities.
Over its century of work, Save the Children drafted the U.N.'s Declaration of the Rights of the Child, fought against the use of child soldiers in 1990s Africa and was the first global agency to offer aid in postwar Vietnam. It also led disaster relief following Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia and the 2015 earthquake in Nepal, and is currently aiming to prevent 600,000 child deaths and educate 50 million children by 2030 with the Every Last Child Campaign.
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