Save the Children fights for children’s rights; we deliver immediate and lasting improvement to childrens’ lives worldwide.
Approximately two-thirds of China’s 367 million children live in rural areas. For many of these children, access to basic education and health care is a major issue - even more pressing for children from ethnic minority communities living in China’s remote mountainous regions.
An increase in urban migrant populations has also meant that a large proportion of these children are either left behind in the countryside, or brought to the cities by their parents in search of work. With the bulk of their energy going into making ends meet, these parents often have little time left to care for their children.
Other groups of children that need our help include homeless children, children with disabilities, trafficked children, young offenders and children with HIV/AIDS. We are dedicated to ensuring China’s vulnerable children have the protection they need and have access to proper education and healthcare.
We focus on:
- Ensuring children have the opportunity to attend school and receive a good education
- Protecting children from harm, in particular migrant children
- Improving women and children’s health and ensuring newborn survival
- Responding quickly to emergencies, carrying out long-term disaster relief work and helping communities to develop disaster preparedness programmes.
In China, we have:
- Improved the learning environments for 329,000 children;
- Provided protection to 88,000 children;
- Delivered health services to 29,000 children;
We also extended aid to 72,000 children affected by the Sichuan earthquake.
In the 2008/2009 fiscal year, Save the Children supported over 440,000 children through our programme work as well as emergency and disaster relief efforts.
For further information about our activities, please see our Annual Report.
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