Save the Children fights for children in the UK and around the world who suffer from poverty, disease, injustice and violence. We work with them to find lifelong answers to the problems they face.
Taken from their website;
In 2003/04 we achieved:
free healthcare
After lobbying by Save the Children and other organisations, internally displaced children and adults in Liberia are now entitled to free healthcare.
reduced medical costs
Major donors such as the EU changed their policy of charging patients the full cost of medicines in Burundi after Save the Children research showed it would stop many people getting basic healthcare.
funding for children orphaned by AIDS
Lobbying by the International Save the Children Alliance and others means that ten per cent of the $15 billion that President Bush has pledged over five years to combat AIDS will be spent on orphans and other vulnerable children.
pre-school education
A pre-school curriculum that Save the Children developed and piloted with a local authority in Vietnam has had a major influence on national education policy.
And much more ... 
