Save the Children

Save the Children
a large international charity that helps children. It was started in London in 1919 and provides services such as education, health care and emergency relief in many of the world’s poorer countries. It also works to help children in Britain. Its president is Princess Anne.

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      any of several independent, voluntary organizations that seek to provide both disaster and long-term aid to disadvantaged children throughout the world. The original organization was founded in Great Britain in 1919 to provide relief to famine-stricken children in Europe after World War I. The agency subsequently broadened its concern to the needs of children worldwide. Similar agencies sprang up in other countries, notably in the United States in 1932 with the creation of the Save the Children Federation. Like its British counterpart, the American agency tries to improve the welfare of needy children and their families at home and abroad by means of recreation clubs and play groups, medical and child-care services, nutritional assistance, and family self-help and community-development projects. The Save the Children organizations rely mostly on private charitable contributions for their funding.

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