Campaign Briefings

Campaign Briefings

Tuesday, 02, Dec 2008 04:12


For more details of Save the Children's recent campaign briefings, please click on the links below.

UK Childhood Poverty

Hard Times – The UK Government have committed to end child poverty in the UK by 2020. It has slipped behind schedule, with 3.4 million children still living in poverty. Save the Children is particularly concerned about the one million children who live in severe poverty.

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The Poverty Premium

Poor families have to pay on average a £1000 annual poverty premium for the most essential goods and services such as gas, electricity and insurance, according to a new report, called The Poverty Premium, produced by Save the Children and the Family Welfare Association.

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Free Healthcare

Paying with their lives - The lives of hundreds of thousands of children in Africa could be saved each year by abolishing fees for healthcare. What’s more, it would cost relatively little.

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Rewrite the Future

Rewrite the future - Education saves lives. It gives children the skills they need to escape poverty, live healthily and have hope for the future. The right to go to school belongs to every child.

However, 115 million children are still out of primary school – that’s 18 per cent of the world’s primary school-aged population. Save the Children research has shown that at least 43 million of these children – one in three – live in countries affected by conflict.

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Latest Press Releases

Save the Children: Anthrax infections bring new misery to cholera-hit Zimbabwe

A deadly outbreak of anthrax has killed two children and one adult and is threatening to wipe out at least 60,000 livestock in Zimbabwe’s northern Zambezi Valley, Save the Children warned today.

Save the Children: Hats off to UK knitters who have helped save hundreds of thousands of children's lives

As Save the Children’s six-month long ‘Knit One, Save One’ campaign draws to a close this week the charity reports that a grand total of 650,000 baby hats were knitted by a staggering 50,000 individual knitters.

Save the Children: Schoolchildren seized as armed groups in DR Congo recruit child soldiers

Armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo have attacked a school in a bid to recruit child soldiers.

Save the Children: Blue Peter puts food back on the menu with its biggest-ever appeal: Mission Nutrition

As world food prices sky-rocket, malnutrition reigns large, and the credit crunch sees poverty take its toll, Blue Peter will tomorrow launch Mission Nutrition to help children around the world eat and grow better food.