Save the Children

The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is a London-based international non-governmental organization. It was founded in 1919 by Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton, with the initial goal of feeding children during the Blockade of Germany. It was determined in 1921 that it would become a permanent organization after needs were recognized across Europe and Russia. The mission became "an international effort to preserve child life wherever it is menaced by conditions of economic hardship and distress".