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"Creating real and lasting change"
Established in 1919 and now the world's largest independent children's rights organisation, Save the Children has 27 national member organisations and is active in more than 110 countries across the globe.
In a world where children continue to go hungry, where they are victims of preventable disease, where they are abused and exploited, or denied access to education, Save the Children continues its work to give all children the best possible start in life and to universally recognise their rights.
The statistics speak for themselves. Half the world's poor are now children; there are more children living in poverty than ever before. Each year, 12 million children under five years of age die unnecessarily of easily preventable diseases, and millions of others are ill because of unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation.
Over eight million children have lost their mothers or both parents as a result of the AIDS epidemic. 130 million children of primary school age are not in school and an estimated 250 million children are now working worldwide, often in dangerous and exploitative conditions.
The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) underpins everything that Save the Children does. When it was near universally ratified ten years ago, it brought with it a renewed worldwide commitment to children's rights and improving their lives. The fight to achieve this has only just begun.
Fundamental change to attitudes, behaviour and overall commitment to children is vital to protect them from the horrors of wars, poverty, exploitation and abuse.
The organisations that make up the International Save the Children Alliance, as one worldwide movement for children, see it as their role to continue the fight to keep this enormous challenge in the hearts and minds of everyone who can bring about benefits in the lives of children.
You can make a difference. Visit www.savethechildren.org.au.
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