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 work in over 10 provinces, cities and regions across China. With our head office in Beijing, we have programme offices in Yunnan, Tibet, Xinjiang, Sichuan and Shanghai. Save the Children China Programme is supported by a team of around 120 dedicated staff.
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 2010, Save the Children in China have:
- Improved the learning environments for 130,000 children;
- Provided protection to 33,000 children;
- Delivered health services to 82,000 children;
- Extended aid to 20,000 children affected by the Qinghai earthquake.
In the year of 2010, we supported over 650,000 children and 500,000 adults 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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