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2013-06-03 15:01:31 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 6 +1s)

The G8 usually gathers just once a year. Can you get them all together in less than 20 seconds?

In a matter of days, the world’s most powerful leaders are coming to the UK for the G8, and hunger is on the agenda. Play our G8 game to get world leaders round the table and taking action, share the game with your friends – and tell us your high (or low) score! Can you Gather All 8? > http://bit.ly/10LPmyk

2013-03-21 14:39:15 (9 comments, 4 reshares, 22 +1s)

Together, we’re stronger. We’re working alongside 13 other charities as part of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), and today we've launched an appeal to help ensure we reach the millions of children affected by the conflict in Syria.

We’re doing all we can to reach children with water, medicine and clothing, but our funds are limited. Your support can really make a difference to Syria’s children – from purchasing mattresses and blankets, to providing emotional support to help them come to terms with the horrific experiences they’ve been through. Find out more about how you can help here > http://bit.ly/YqVnPq

Photography: Jonathan Hyams/Save the Children

2013-03-06 13:31:40 (1 comments, 13 reshares, 38 +1s)

Sana* is one of MILLIONS of children who’ve been scarred by the brutal civil war in Syria.

Today, the numbers fleeing Syria topped 1 million. We’re doing whatever we can to provide food, warm coats and access to education across different areas in Syria and in neighbouring countries. But we urgently need YOUR help to bring this back to the top of world leaders’ agendas.

On March 14 – the eve of the second anniversary of the conflict’s outbreak – we’re holding a Global Vigil for Syria to send a message to the world’s five most powerful leaders. You can join us in demanding they unite to help bring peace to Syria and get aid to victims. Use Facebook or Twitter to add your message: just sign up now and, on March 14, we’ll launch all your messages at the same moment.

To be a voice for Syria’s children, sign up here >http://www.savethec... more »

2013-02-21 13:33:56 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 36 +1s)

No-one forgets the first hour of their baby’s life: the excitement, the happiness and the nerves. But imagine if you didn’t have any access to healthcare when your child was born – how would you begin to know what was best for your newborn baby?

For millions of mums around the world, this is their reality.

In the poorest countries, mothers often don’t have access to the support and advice they desperately need when they’ve just had a baby. Mothers in these countries are often misinformed about what is best for their babies, particularly in their crucial first hour. Over 800,000 babies die every year under these tragic and preventable circumstances.

Want to find out how you can help put a stop to this? Click here > http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/power-of-the-first-hour

Photography credit: Raj Yagnik/Save the Children

2013-02-05 15:16:03 (14 comments, 9 reshares, 28 +1s)

IF the world produces enough food for everyone, why are over 200 children dying of hunger every hour?

It’s unfair, it’s unjust, and it’s totally preventable, but only IF enough of us join together to demand change. We’ve joined forces with over 100 organisations and formed ENOUGH FOOD FOR EVERYONE IF to end this scandal, but we need YOUR help too. This summer, the UK will be hosting the G8 summit and we want global hunger to be top of the agenda. We can be the generation to ensure every child has a life free from hunger. IF we act together and act now.

To make your voice heard, click here > http://savethechildren.org.uk/enoughfoodif

2012-12-14 16:58:09 (2 comments, 7 reshares, 20 +1s)

Don't forget: we're streaming our incredible #xmastreesessions  concert live on YouTube from 19:00! See you there!

2012-12-14 12:48:01 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 24 +1s)

It's #xmasjumperday! Do you have your jumpers on today? We'd love to see your pics!

2012-12-11 12:36:44 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 22 +1s)

If you go down to Parliament today, you’re in for a woolly surprise! MPs across the British Isles have donned their festive jumpers to take part in #xmasjumperday. For one week only, check out the Christmas Jumper Party!

2012-12-11 12:20:53 (9 comments, 4 reshares, 22 +1s)

Are you ready for  #xmasjumperday on 14 DEC? We've got an amazing finale lined up to wrap up this amazing day. Help us celebrate in style and join an array of stars – including Spiritualized, Fyfe Dangerfield, Guy Garvey and our host, Lauren Laverne – for an intimate and acoustic live music event: Christmas Tree Sessions!

We want to invite EVERYONE to this amazing concert to thank you for your support in 2012. But since we can’t fit all of you in the Union Chapel in London, we’ll be streaming it live on YouTube on 14 DEC so you can all enjoy it.

Click here and bookmark the link to the live stream! > http://bit.ly/QSjnIY  
If you’re in London on the 14th, there are VERY limited tickets available to the live event at the Union Chapel. Click here to buy now from Ticketline > http://bit.ly/WqX3cG

2012-12-07 18:16:08 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 21 +1s)

After years in style exile, the Christmas jumper is back and it's helping to change the world!

On Friday 14 December, people up and down the country will be wearing a Christmas jumper to raise money for our life-changing work with the world's poorest children.

Get involved! Find out more and register now for your Christmas Jumper Day kit on our website >> http://bit.ly/VCl3sF

2012-09-10 12:25:36 (13 comments, 15 reshares, 45 +1s)

Right now, here in the UK, 1.6 million children are growing up in severe poverty.

Children like seven-year-old Lauren, who don’t have the basics we all expect our own children to have: simple things like a warm home, hot meals and a bedroom free from damp and mould.

We launched our first public appeal for our UK work, to help poor families and children who are suffering the brunt of the recession. Support our work and help us give every child in the UK a chance > http://bit.ly/Ur6dRY

2012-09-04 11:23:11 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)

In the 30’s and 40’s, we fought for children’s right to adequate nutrition in the UK. Our campaigning was a success: the Education Act of 1944 made it compulsory that all schools in the UK provide milk to children under the age of 18.

We continue fight for children in the UK today by supporting some of the most vulnerable children and families. Right now, 1.6 million children live in severe poverty in the UK. Our porgrammes make sure children living in poverty get off to the best possible start in education, and we’re making sure they get the essentials they need - a hot meal, blankets, a warm bed.

2012-06-28 12:00:08 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 20 +1s)

What do you think about the Girl Power Saves Lives campaign? We've put together comments and reactions on Twitter and the web.

2012-06-27 11:15:47 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 25 +1s)

Let’s give girls in developing countries the power to choose whether and when to have children. We have that power in the UK. Why can’t they?
http://savethechildren.org.uk/givegirlspower

2012-05-16 12:27:37 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 20 +1s)

Today we're bringing you the first in a series of 'Inside Story' posts from Jonny, a member of our emergency response team out in Niger, where families are struggling with life-threatening hunger.

He'll be bringing you news from children there, and reports on the work you're supporting. Read his first blog here, just in, and leave him your comments and questions!

2012-05-14 11:41:00 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 20 +1s)

Morning everyone! Hope you all had good weekends!

Have a look at this: this week is Music is Great Britain week this brand new DVD and download celebrating some of the most memorable British live performances ever is on sale now - and all the profits from the sales will come to us!

There are performances from David Bowie, Adele, Take That, Muse, Queen and loads more... take a peek at the trailer below, buy here http://bit.ly/JU6moT and download here http://bit.ly/KJsovN

2012-05-02 09:07:46 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

Morning everyone! Have you dropped in to our virtual clinic yet to take a look around?

Move from the consultation room to the birthing room and more - see what equipment we need to fund to turn this virtual clinic into real clinics in Bangladesh, with life-saving tools, supplies and trained staff...

2012-04-26 16:26:57 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 15 +1s)

Afternoon all! Today we'd like you to meet 10-month-old Nirob. He lives in Bangladesh, where we've launched an appeal to build clinics to save babies lives.

It's hard to imagine going your whole life without ever seeing a doctor, no matter how sick you got. But when fundraiser Scott met Nirob's family, he realised most of the community here are living a life without healthcare...

2012-04-25 15:31:23 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

Hello everyone! Today we’re launching an appeal to build clinics to help babies and their mums in Bangladesh.

Over the next week or so we'll be bringing you stories from some of the most remote parts of the country - because every hour of very day, 11 newborn children die here. Mothers have to go without essentials like a clinic to go to, or a midwife to help them give birth at home.

It doesn’t have to be this way. With your help, we’re raising £1 million to build clinics in some of the poorest areas to give these babies the basic healthcare that will save their lives.

Visit our virtual clinic now and have a look around. See the sorts of equipment and supplies we need to fund – and take part in the builds by buying your very own brick…!

2012-04-13 11:19:54 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

This is your last chance to pick up tickets for our free blogging conference tomorrow.

We'll have speakers from Google and Blue State Digital and a session on Google+ from Annie Spratt author of loveallblogs.com and Lisa De Bonis from Work Club.

Don't miss it.

http://savethechildren-creatingconnections.eventbrite.co.uk/

2012-03-15 14:39:22 (3 comments, 7 reshares, 15 +1s)

A huge thank you to all of you who've signed our Syria petition so far. We now have more than 27,000 signatures from around the world - but as today marks a year of violence in the country, we'd like your help again to spread the word and get more people to sign. It's time for the violence to stop and for aid to be allowed in to help families there.

Please watch and share this first-hand account from Lebanon, where we've been able to help children and families who've made it over the border. Together, we can prove just how much public support there is for the children of Syria.

2012-03-13 17:08:14 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

Hey everyone! We're calling on the UK government to review changes to the benefits system planned for next year. These changes will help many families – but could also leave some of the UK’s poorest parents worse off despite working longer hours.

With Mother’s Day this weekend, will you help give mums in the UK the help they need to work their own way out of poverty? Many parents want to work to provide for their children. But the cost of childcare and losing benefits means that working often isn’t a route out of poverty.

Will you show your solidarity with UK mums by signing our manifesto, which calls on Chancellor George Osborne to make sure mums don’t lose out.

2012-03-06 17:41:11 (1 comments, 8 reshares, 7 +1s)

Hey everyone - have you seen our petition to stop the killing in Syria and allow aid in to help children there? We're working with children who've fled over the borders to Lebanon and Jordan, but more must be done to protect the children still in Syria. You can help - read more here.

2012-02-15 16:37:52 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Today we’ve launched the new phase of our No Child Born to Die campaign. We’re calling on the Prime Minister to name a day to hold a world hunger summit. Will you help by naming your day to end hunger? http://goo.gl/UHtci

2012-02-14 15:53:24 (3 comments, 7 reshares, 23 +1s)

Happy Valentine's day everyone! Today, we'd like to introduce you to Nadia from Pakistan. When she was seven months old, one of our health workers found that she was malnourished. So her mum, Azra, brought her to this clinic and a nurse showed Azra how to feed Nadia this high-energy paste that would help her get better.

The family was forced to flee their home because of floods, leaving behind almost all they owned. Parents like Azra around the world struggle to feed their children in really tough circumstances.

It's time to tackle hunger. Not just the effects but the causes too. Watch this space. Tomorrow, we'll be letting you know what action you can take to help...

2012-02-13 17:26:25 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 14 +1s)

2012-02-03 14:06:37 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 23 +1s)

Happy Friday! A good day to share a good news story we think. We were blown away to get new pictures in of Umi, a little girl surviving the food crisis in east Africa. Thanks to our supporters, we were able to treat her when she came to our feeding centre in Kenya. She was close to death because her family just couldn't get enough food after their livestock died because of the drought. Now she's a happy, smiling nine-month-old and is crawling and sitting and getting all her vital vaccinations...

2012-01-31 18:12:24 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

We're always looking for new ways to bring our work to life for our supporters so we thought we'd try a bit of augmented reality...read more about why here http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/2012/01/bringing-the-printed-word-to-life-with-augmented-reality/

2012-01-04 11:41:21 (1 comments, 5 reshares, 19 +1s)

Wesley, 5, and Joe, 6, from Blaenau Gwent in Wales sit by an electric heater in winter clothes in their living room. The heater can only be left on for half an hour at a time, as it uses too much electricity. They, like many families, are living in miserable circumstances because they are always cold and cannot afford to put the heating on. If they put the heating on then it means less money for food and other bills.

This winter, 800,000 British families could be left in the cold because of rising energy costs. No child should have their health put at risk because their parents can’t afford heating. Help us beat fuel poverty http://bit.ly/coldkid.

Photo credit: David Hedges/Save the Children

2011-11-24 10:43:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

Happy Thanksgiving to all our American supporters. We're thankful for you!

2011-11-22 17:33:13 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Okay folks, we have a question... What would you like to see more of on our Google + pages?

2011-11-16 12:40:21 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

We are really liking the Halifax online choir facebook app. Sing and set up a choir and we get up to £5 in donations from Halifax. Time to put on your xmas karaoke hats we think. :) Check it out: http://www.facebook.com/halifax?sk=app_217606991638141#!/halifax?sk=app_217606991638141

And here's a handy video:

2011-11-11 15:29:21 (0 comments, 10 reshares, 13 +1s)

So what does everyone think of the latest John Lewis Christmas ad?
We hate to admit it, but it brought a tear to our eye.

2011-11-10 17:16:00 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 14 +1s)

We work a lot with bloggers who are interested in our work. We're avid bloggers ourselves and we hold regular blogger conferences where bloggers can find out more about our work and how to get involved with what we do. We showed this video at our last bloggers conference and it features 6 mummy bloggers who were instrumental in raising awareness for two big campaigns, Blogladesh and Pass It On. Watch.

If you're a blogger, please get in touch, we'd love to hear from you.

2011-11-10 12:44:50 (0 comments, 15 reshares, 26 +1s)

Saturday November 12 is World Pneumonia Day. Pneumonia is the single biggest killer of children in the world today, killing 1.5 million children under five every year. We like this simple animated video and the way it presents all the facts. Watch.

2011-11-09 10:57:11 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)

Pass It On was the social media bit of our successful vaccinations campaign to get the UK government to pledge funding for vaccination for children in the poorest countries. Check out the video:

2011-11-09 10:48:10 (0 comments, 9 reshares, 30 +1s)

Ooh! Youtube royalty Charlieissocoollike wearing one of our customiseable Born To t-shirts, bought for him by his equally amazing mum (and one of our Pass It On campaign bloggers, we'll post a campaign video so you can find out more about this) Lililiesarelike. We like!

Want one? http://bit.ly/shop2save

2011-11-08 14:53:11 (2 comments, 15 reshares, 13 +1s)

Great blog on what Google+ pages may mean for charity fundraisers. Hint: Sorry folks, you're going to have to go there.

2011-11-08 13:22:13 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

For our ongoing No Child Born to Die campaign we went all over the world making films about children, how we work with them and they live their lives. We did a series of out-takes that we really liked but haven't shared until now. Hope you enjoy them as much as we did.

2011-11-08 13:01:26 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

What are children Born To do?

2011-11-08 13:01:08 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 8 +1s)

For our ongoing No Child Born to Die campaign we went all over the world making films about children, how we work with them and they live their lives. We did a series of out-takes that we really liked but haven't shared until now. Hope you enjoy them as much as we did.

2011-11-08 12:14:39 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 17 +1s)

We love this video story of our Fill a Truck campaign, it's got drama, plot and a happy ending. Watch it.

2011-11-08 11:05:23 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

Hello and welcome fabulous new followers. We can't believe how many of you there are already! Thanks for your all your comments and feedback so far.

2011-11-08 01:22:03 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

A shocking 3.5 million children live in poverty in the UK. Some leading photographers took a glimpse into their lives for us. Click on the link to view Our Lives, our online exhibition of intimate portraits of children living in poverty in the UK.

2011-11-08 01:16:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Recently our supporters helped us raise funds to fill a truck with vital supplies to help hungry children suffering in the droughts in Kenya East Africa. And we followed it all the way. Start here to read all about that amazing journey:

2011-11-08 01:15:09 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Every picture tells a story. We are constantly amazed at things that our supporters do to show their support for us. Below are just some our supporters, the stories they help us create and the stories they share with us.

2011-11-08 00:22:54 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

Hello world! Save the Children UK is now live on Google+ pages. Welcome new followers. There'll be plenty of exciting content for you to see soon. We look forward to getting to know you and sharing our stories.