Alice+Research

Here is all the information and all of the research I've done: I've reworded it!
 * __ Change __** ** Has the amount of Less Fortunate Children decreased or increased over time? **

When disaster strikes around the world, our community is there to save lives with food, medical care and education and remains to help communities rebuild through long-term recovery programs. As quickly and as effectively as Save the Children responds to tsunamis and civil conflict, it works to help the ongoing struggles children face in their everyday life. For example, — poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease — and replaces them with hope for the future. =Our Strategy= Grounded in our shared vision of a world, all children has a right to survival and shelter, protection, development and participation, Save the Children’s new mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way our world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Our new global vision, mission, values and strategy are very much a part of Save the Children’s longstanding principles and are consistent with our strategic priorities. Our Achievements in 2009-2010 =Careers= Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries, including the United States. We aim to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives by improving their health, education and economic opportunities. In times of acute crisis, we mobilize rapid assistance to help children recover from the effects of war, conflict and natural disasters. In 2010 we improved the lives of over 64 million children in need in the United States and around the world. Our goal is to reach more than 74 million children annually by the year 2012. In order to achieve this, we are actively looking for talented, motivated individuals to join us in making a difference in the lives of children worldwide. Save the Children puts its resources and expertise to work in more than 50 countries including the United States. We serve 48 million children and many others, including parents, community members, local organizations and government agencies. As part of our efforts to create a ever lasting change, Save the Children asks students, communities and organizations to become involved with issues that affect children in need around the world.
 * **Haiti Earthquake Disaster:** Since the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, Save the Children has coordinated with Haitian authorities, the international community, local and international organizations and communities to reach an estimated 682,000 children and adults with lifesaving and life-sustaining assistance.
 * **Rewrite the Future Campaign:** Since 2006, Rewrite the Future has reached more than 12 million children in conflict-affected countries with access to improved education. Overall, the program has succeeded in enrolling one million children in school, the equivalent of opening two schools every day.
 * **Child Hunger Crisis:** By middle of 2010, Save the Children had already surpassed its goal in 2009, child hunger program revenue, serving some of the hardest-hit countries, including countries like Haiti, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Malawi.
 * **Preventing HIV/AIDS:** Save the Children’s collaboration with the government in the country Bangladesh provided messages and youth-friendly health services to 700,000 young people to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS . In Africa, the community has instituted rigorous standards in the communities it supports for the care of orphans and vulnerable children. Save the Children now reaches 37 million children in 14 countries with these and other services.
 * **School Health and Nutrition:** Our School Health and Nutrition activities have helped more than 2 million children in 20 countries become healthier and better prepared to learn. Children who are undernourished or sick miss classes and fall behind in learning.
 * **Building Public Support for Children:** Save the Children has established itself as a leader in influencing polices and increasing resources toward the improvement of global child survival and resolution of the child hunger crisis. Advocacy based on our State of the World’s Mothers Report, which focused on health workers in the developing world, helped to win new commitments from the U.S. Congress for President Barack Obama’s Global Health Initiative. With the report and the push for the Global Health Initiative, which includes child health and nutrition programs, Save the Children has successfully channeled U.S government resources and policies to fight the problems of inadequate health care, nutrition, education and protection on behalf of children around the world.
 * **Programs for Children in the United States:** Save the Children provides high-quality early childhood development, literacy, and physical activity and nutrition programs to more than 21,000 children in underserved, rural communities in 14 states. Additionally, our disaster preparedness programs are helping at-risk communities across the country lay the groundwork for future emergencies. Save the Children’s U.S. Programs recently released a new report that revealed that 38 states and the District of Columbia have not enacted basic safeguards to protect children in school or child care during disasters. This year, Save the Children pushed for states to adopt four minimum standards to protect kids in disasters, as well as for federal passage of the Child Safety, Care and Education Continuity Act of 2010 (H.R. 5240/S. 2898). We also launched k2kUSA, an online campaign for kids to be advocates for each other and ensure every child a fair chance in life. Save the Children’s U.S. Programs was featured on American Idol’s Idol Gives Back telethon, which raised more than $45 million for our plan to help children living in rural poverty in the U.S.

found from: http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6115947/k.8D6E/Official_Site.htm

=**Talk to a organizer from Save the Children (Swedish)**= To help us have a deeper and better understanding of less fortunate children, my father has a friend that works at Save the Children. Her name is Britta and she will be coming to Hong Kong 16th February 2012. The Less Fortunate Children group will have a meeting with her or maybe just have a phone call with her to help us have a deeper understanding of how many children in different countries needs to be saved and how we can take action. We could take a field trip to see her.
 * By: Alice**