Save the Children

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In 2010, Save the Children reached over 73 million children in need, including 13 million children through our emergency responses in 26 natural disasters, wars and conflicts.
Save the Children’s relief assistance is designed to meet the unique needs of children — a special niche that few other emergency responders share. Thanks to the outpouring of support from our donors, our staff has had the resources and equipment to help vulnerable children, particularly in the first hours or days after a disaster – when their survival is most at risk. Our emergency response teams continue their work in the wake of natural disaster relief and recovery in 2011, helping the children and families who survived Japan’s earthquake and tsunami. But two cataclysmic disasters – the magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Haiti at the beginning of 2010 and the monsoon flooding across one-quarter of Pakistan eight months later – made the greatest demands on our rapid response capacity.
Aside from the tragic loss of life and the millions of families uprooted from their homes, these disasters caused widespread destruction of cities and villages, roads, schools, infrastructure and livelihoods. And when the underpinning of society unravels, children are in greatest need of protection.
Save the Children remains by the sides of children in these dire circumstances and you are there by our sides with us.

In theaters July 1, Monte Carlo is a fun romantic comedy – starring Selena Gomez as Grace, an ordinary girl who becomes an accidental princess. Watch it this Fourth of July weekend!
If you’re lucky, you’ll seeSave the Children during the film’s charity ball scene, in which a sparkling, emerald and diamond Bulgari necklace is auctioned off for $4 million to support children’s education.

Save the Children’s Protection Advisor, Marie Dahl, reports from Cote d’Ivoire where she works to protect children from abuse, violence and exploitation after disputed elections in November. She writes, “My visit resulted in a successful negotiation for a free space to set up a temporary school and a supervised playground. In the midst of their daily struggles in the camp, children will have a space to leave their hardships aside and just be children.”