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Our History

 

Save the Children’s Founder
Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton founded the first Save the Children organisation in May 1919, in London, United Kingdom. 

Shocked by the aftermath of World War 1 and the Russian Revolution, they were determined to secure improvements to children's lives. Their goal was to create a powerful international organisation, which would extend its ramifications to the remotest corner of the globe. This was soon achieved - and Save the Children continues to build on this success.

The first to press for child’s rights
Eglantyne Jebb was the first to press for worldwide safeguards for children. Her ‘Declaration of the Rights of the Child’, written in 1923, was adopted by the League of Nations and inspired the present UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

 

 

Save the Children in Hong Kong
“A child sits crying in the gutters of Hong Kong. In this overcrowded city of 3 million people, his sobs go unnoticed. He has lost his home and his family. The soles of his feet, which drag so listlessly in the foetid waters of the gutter, are pitted with the scars of cigarette burns."

- A Save the Children report from 1959

 

 After the end of World War II refugee immigrants swarmed into the colony - over 300 a day - and the population increased dramatically. Children grew up in the streets of Hong Kong, most of them hungry, poorly clothed and uneducated. By 1960 up to 60,000 children in the city were not in one of the schools, already so overcrowded that they had to work in three shifts from dawn to dusk.

Save the Children set up an infant welfare nursery in one of the large refugee resettlements, providing food, medicine and education for children in need.

 

More nurseries and boys' shelter and hostels for orphaned and homeless boys were added soon. In 1960 Save the Children started to build up a local organisation to bring the people of the country into the work, so the Save the Children Fund Hong Kong Committee was formed.

Today, one of the big challenges facing our work is the big increase in the number of families moving to cities. We work to protect children and ensure they have access to education and healthcare in cities in many countries around the world.