WHAT COMES TO MIND?

Edmauro Da Conceicao Gomes

Birthday: July 26th, 2003.

Health: Satisfactory

Grade: 2

Country: Brazil

Participation in Community: Recreational Activities

Lives with: Parents

Chores: Helps with household cleaning

SAVE THE CHILDREN

~ Save the Children is an international relief and development organization.

~ It first began in the United Kingdom in 1919 and was founded by Dorothy Buxton and Eglantyne Jebb.

~ The sisters decided that more practical help was needed; they formed the Fight Famine Council.

DOROTHY

EGLANTYNE

SAVING THE CHILDREN

TODAY!~ Works are based around the rights of children and listed in the United Nations Conventions.

~ Also try to work on a wider basis; aiming to achieve lasting changes in children’s rights.

~ Run a variety of programs throughout the world to: improve the health of mothers & children, help in breastfeeding, and HIV/AIDS prevention and care.

CHILD PROTECTION

~ Girls and boys in every country of the world face abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence.

~ Save the Children works to prevent all forms of abuse and neglect.

~ Operate Child Friendly spaces for children.

~ To protect children, they work with governments, international organizations and local community partners.

CHILD EDUCATION~ Save the Children’s goal is to achieve universal primary education by 2015.

~ Focus on: early childhood care and development of basic primary and secondary education.

~ Save the Children Foundation eliminates barriers to education so that every girl and boy has the chance to go to school.

~ They focus their efforts on the most at risk children.

CHILD HEALTH & NUTRITION

~ Save the Children works to improve the health and nutrition of children worldwide.

~ Address the major causes of illness and malnutrition.

~ They also train community health workers to identify and treat the biggest killers of children.

~ Operate and support programs for infants and young child breast feeding & parent-child bonding.

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Works Cited

“Child Protection”. Save the Children Canada. n.d. Web. 22 Apr.

2012.

“Education”. Save the Children Canada. n.d Web. 22 Apr. 2012.

“Health and Nutrition”. Save the Children Canada. n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2012.

Parry, Ann. Humanitarian Organizations: Save the Children. Langhorne: Chelsea House Publishers, 2006. Print.