Save the Children Federation

Global health and nutrition in 2018, Save the Children continues to be at the forefront of global efforts to end preventable child deaths with a focus on maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition. In 2018, we directly reached 28 million Children through our global health programs. For more information, see schedule o.

Hunger and livelihoods - through our hunger and livelihoods programs, we directly reached 4.7 million vulnerable people, including 2.5 million Children, across 24 countries last year. Our results showed improvements in household poverty, child nutritional status, hunger and dietary diversity. For example, through our five-year, usaid-funded paisano food security program in guatemala, which reached 27,000 families, we helped decrease the prevalence of poverty by 29% and child stunting by 5%. Across eight emergency food security programs, we helped decrease moderate to severe hunger by 36%. For more information, see schedule o.

Education & protection - Save the Children works every day to ensure Children develop foundational skills in the early years, learn to read by third grade and that no child's learning stops because they are caught up in crisis. In 2018, we directly reached 8 million Children through our global education programs and 2.9 million Children through our global protection programs. In addition, we directly reached 67,000 Children in 17 u.s. states last year through our education programs. For more information, see schedule o.