Save The Children - Blantyre, Malawi

Save the Children was the first global movement for children, boldly declaring that children have rights.
Today, we champion the rights of the world’s 2.3 billion children.

Believe it or not, in 1919, when Eglantyne Jebb founded Save the Children, her conviction that children have the right to grow up healthy, educated and safe was not a mainstream idea.

Much has changed since then. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, based on our founder’s declaration, is now the most universally accepted human rights treaty in history. And, through our work in the United States and around the world, we've changed the lives of over 1 billion children.