Our Partners
STRONGER TOGETHER
The combined effects of conflicts, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the rapid escalation of climate-driven crises have been devastating for children and families across the world—profoundly disrupting progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. These interconnected challenges require interconnected solutions. Save the Children works in partnership with communities, corporations, foundations, and philanthropists with shared values. This allows us to pool our expertise and resources to develop meaningful solutions to community-identified challenges.
Based on our four key strategic impact areas (children in crisis, Indigenous child rights, gender equality, and climate justice), our values prioritize centring the voices and leadership of children and communities for sustainable outcomes.
Here are some highlights from our 2022 partnerships:
Climate change is directly affecting First Nations through more frequent and extreme weather events: floods, forest fires, ice and windstorms, and warming winters. These events pose a risk to the safety, security, and wellbeing of children and communities.
In partnership with GSK Canada and the Four Arrows Regional Health Authority (FARHA), the Ka Pimthatek Pakthehnamoowin: A Journey of Hope Program is helping communities in the Island Lake Region of central Manitoba prepare for and adapt to the most serious effects of climate change. The program centers the voices of children and leadership of the community. Through this, and our shared commitment to a reconciled Canada, the program is helping to build resilience in the face of conditions that threaten structural stability and the emotional and psychological wellbeing of children, families, and community members.
Children in the Dadaab refugee camps in eastern Kenya and surrounding host communities face violence, exploitation, neglect, child marriage, trafficking, and recruitment into armed groups. Many are there because they fled armed conflict in neighbouring countries. There has also been an influx of arrivals following a prolonged drought in Somalia that left a largely pastoralist community without the means of survival.
In partnership with Spin Master and local leadership, the Play On! Curriculum was included in child-friendly spaces in the camps, as well as at hospitals, schools, and alternative learning centres. This enables children fleeing conflict and the affects of climate change to play, learn, and recover from traumatic experiences in a safe environment.
Together with Spin Master and local community partners, we are committed to reaching children in crisis with the message that they are not alone or forgotten and that they deserve to play, learn, and grow in safety.
In Venezuela, a prolonged economic crisis, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, severely limited access to essential services like food, water, health care, education, and electricity. Food insecurity led to a significant increase in acute malnutrition in children.
Hundreds of children under five in Venezuela gained access to treatment for acute malnutrition, through a partnership with Mealshare and local communities. Working with Mealshare, thousands of children in Mali, Ethiopia, and Kenya were also able to access nutritious food to support healthy growth and development.
A world of difference
Save the Children’s work would not be possible without all of our partners. Their passion and commitment to use their platforms, expertise, and resources to shine a spotlight on the millions of children affected by climate change, conflict, and COVID-19 is inspiring. Through the power of these partnerships, we can make a world of difference, proving that we are stronger together.