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Save the Children
Introduction
Save the Children believes that every child deserves a future. Widespread poverty is a major obstacle to children reaching their full potential; girls and boys frequently miss out on education due to child labor and lack of access to schools. Every child has the right to live a healthy life. Save the Children is the world's leading independent children's organization. It has been working in the Philippines for over three decades and is dedicated to helping children.
Present in the Philippines since 1981. Save the Children has been working with Filipino children and their families for nearly 40 years. Save the Children started its first program in 1982 on Guimaras Island in western Visayas, reaching out to impoverished children and families with health, education, and livelihood projects that benefited over 3,000 children. They then expanded to new areas like Ilocos Norte, where they built bridges and classrooms for school children and monitored child health and nutrition and in Metro Manila where their urban poor program focused on land acquisition with help from the National Housing Authority and UNICEF. From this initial start nearly 40 years ago, Save the Children has expanded its programs throughout the Philippines, helping to support childrens.
Purpose
Save the Children's work saves and improves children's lives around the world. They work to ensure children have healthcare, food and shelter, as well as receive a good education, child protection services and children's rights. Save the Children are also working with Filipino families to help them out of the poverty cycle, so they can feed and support their children.
Description
In the Philippines and around the world, Save the Children work to ensure that every child is given a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. They work with the government in developing policies, plan and budgets to ensure that children, especially those living in poor communities, have access to quality basic services and have their rights protected.
Humanitarian Response
We are at the forefront of saving children’s lives whenever disasters strike.
When disasters strike, they ensure that children are given care and emotional support to survive, recover, and continue to learn and live normal lives. They provide long-term support such as education and livelihoods, and build up community resilience to reduce the impact of future disasters. With almost a century of experience in humanitarian response, Save the Children has built its expertise in providing life-saving assistance to children and families affected by disasters and conflict. They ensure that the most vulnerable people have access to shelter, clean water, food, education, and healthcare. They also ensure that children are protected at all times.
They also train children on what to do before, during, and after disasters. In addition, they also collaborate with national and local governments in implementing existing laws related to disaster risk reduction and protection of children during emergencies.
Health and nutrition
We help children grow up healthy and strong.
Save the Children improve the health of children and families so children no longer die of preventable illnesses. They provide maternal, newborn, and child health programs and improve systems among communities to increase the number of deliveries with skilled birth attendance, promote exclusive breastfeeding, immunizations, and micronutrient supplements. They educate communities on the links between proper hygiene and good health. Also, they educate teenage girls and boys on reproductive health, menstrual health, gender equality, adolescence and puberty.
Furthermore, they train local health workers in delivering life-saving care for newborn children, teach parents and schools on proper childcare and nutrition, train pupils on dental care and personal hygiene. They provide services to improve maternal, infant, and adolescent health, carry out a malnutrition treatment program among poor communities, provide emergency healthcare for children and families affected by armed conflict or natural disasters, raise awareness on child malnutrition through their #LahatDapat campaign, and influence and work with government at national and local levels for the adoption of policies that support effective health programs for children.
Education
We help improve access to quality education for all children.
Save the Children supports the realization of children’s right to quality education because we know how education changes a child’s life. They create greater access to quality education and ensure that girls and boys are able to learn in safe and positive environments.
Child's Rights and Protection
We are committed to promote every child's rights and protect them from harm.
Save the Children is committed to uphold children’s right to protection from all forms of violence.
Save the Children ensure that children are safe from abuse, exploitation and violence at all times, and have a say in government decisions that affect their lives. They are influencing the Philippine Congress to pass a law that would protect children from physical and humiliating punishment, and promote positive discipline. With their partner government agencies and NGOs, they help parents, caregivers and teachers to change the way they discipline children into more positive and non-violent ways through their Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting (PDEP) and Positive Discipline in Everyday Teaching (PDET) trainings all over the country. They also influence the government to ensure that quality programs and services for the protection of children are widely available and can reach children. This includes working with government agencies to adopt PDEP and PDET trainings to reach more parents, caregivers, and educators. Moreover, they also help improve the knowledge, skills and attitudes of service providers, schools and NGOs to enable them to protect children in emergency and non-emergency contexts. Thus, they make the public aware of what violence against children is and how it happens.
Interactive Multimedia Used
Save the Children Official Website
Save the Children Philippines Official Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/SavetheChildrenPH/
Save the Children Philippines Official Twitter
Save the Children Philippines Official YouTube Channel
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