Save the Children

Founded in 1919, Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in 120 countries. Save the Children aims 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, the organization mobilizes rapid assistance to help children recover from the effects of war, conflict and natural disasters. Its advocacy efforts provide a voice for children who cannot speak for themselves.    

Save the Children has maintained a presence in the Middle East for decades, serving the development and humanitarian needs of vulnerable children across the region. As a nonsectarian organization whose sole focus is on the survival and well-being of children, it plays a vital role and has vast experience in reaching conflict-affected children and their families. The organization has been responding to the needs of Syrian children and families affected by their nation’s conflict from the time the first refugees from that war began crossing borders to neighboring countries, providing humanitarian relief and related programming inside Syria and for Syrian refugee children and families in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey and Armenia. Given that many host communities are themselves underdeveloped and impoverished, Save the Children includes vulnerable children of these host communities in its programming.  (http://www.savethechildren.org)