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CONOCE MÁS ACERCA DE PATROCINIOSAnaAna tiene 7 años y se hace cargo durante todo el día de su hermanita Regina de 3 su hermano Juan de 6 años de edad.Su papá ya no vive con ellos y su mamá trabaja más de 10h diarias para poder mantenerlos.Ana se encarga de cuidarles y de que nada malo les pase mientras están solos.CarlitosLa mayoría de los días, Carlitos no tiene nada que comer.A sus 9 años, sufre de desnutrición.Siempre le acompaña Pinto, su perro del cual nunca se separa.“A veces sólo me dan un bolillo, pero da igual lo que tenga, siempre lo comparto con él” PacoPaco lleva más de 1 año sufriendo de graves infecciones estomacales.La falta de higiene y salubridad en la que vive le ha hecho enfermar de manera grave.Sus padres hacen muchos esfuerzos porque reciba los servicios de salud adecuados, pero no siempre lo consiguen.MaríaMaría sólo espera que no vengan de nuevo a abusar de ella.Tiene 6 años y reconoce que no le gusta guardar los secretos que le piden guardar.Su oso de peluche es su mejor confidente.

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Children at the centre receive a balanced cooked meal every day, for many this is the only food they get.

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A legacy can be the most significant gift you can make in your life, because it gives you the power to change the future of children.

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We have successfully rolled-out better healthcare services for children in 150 Early Childhood Care and Development centres in 2015.

In South Africa and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.

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To raise children’s voices in public matters and to deliver on our mandate of placing children first.

First Lady Dr Tshepo Motsepe and Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize have congratulated Save the Children on its 100-year birthday. They were speaking at the organization’s centenary celebrations hosted at the Kalafong Hospital in Atteridgeville. Save the Children has been doing whatever it takes for children in need for 100 years, reaching over 1 billion children. It all began in 1919 with founder, Eglantyne Jebb, the original changemaker for children. Eglantyne launched a pioneering campaign to save suffering children across war-torn Europe – a cause that soon became the first global movement for children.

Save the Children is gravely concerned about the safety of children during the civil unrest in South Africa following the reported killing of a 15-year-old boy in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, among the protesters.

“Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.” Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013)

Save the Children South Africa continues to condemn the current scourge of brutality against the children of our country, exemplified by the recent rape and murder of four year old Jasmin Lee Pretorius from Brakpan.

Save the Children South Africa congratulates all the successful Matriculants of 2013.

Calling all maternal & newborn health supporters!

Let your community know just how valuable this person is. Pitch a story about one or more local health workers, or submit a letter to the editor to local media outlets.

Save the Children is participating in Global Road Safety Week, 23-29 April 2014! The Week is dedicated to pedestrian safety.

In 20 years let’s make sure every child survives and thrives.

This Mother’s Day spare a thought for the mothers of the 20 babies that die every day in South Africa on the day they are born.

Save the Children remains appalled by the abduction of the schoolgirls in Nigeria. As a children's rights organisation we believe every boy or girl has the right to be educated and to be protected against all forms of violence.

An Advocacy and Campaigning Meeting on Maternal Newborn and Child Health for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) took place in South Africa on 13th May 2014, hosted by Save the Children South Africa.

It has been 38 years since the Soweto uprising where protesting students were shot dead by Apartheid police for protesting Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools.

The abduction of over 250 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno, North West Nigeria in mid-April has sparked outrage from the global public and cast a spotlight on the situation in the north of the country.

Special Reception Hosted by South African Civil Society: A Common Thread Reaching Every Woman and Every Newborn.

You can tell a lot about a country from the way it treats its women and young children. If a country really believes in equality then it will invest in their health, safety, education and empowerment.

With a child population of nearly 60 million children, Brazil has become the largest country in the world to achieve prohibition of all corporal punishment, including in the home.

On Monday a significant international conference on women’s and children’s health, co-hosted by the Government of South Africa, will begin in Johannesburg.

Yesterday, mothers, fathers, midwives and community members gathered in Soweto to show their commitment to saving women’s and babies’ lives.

South African activists, health workers and celebrities join forces to urge renewed action to end newborn deaths

Save the Children South Africa is outraged by the shameful and senseless killing of four year old Taegrin Morris in Reiger Park in a botched hijacking at the weekend.

Save the Children South Africa was outraged by the contents of Carte Blanche’s Daycare centre child abuse story aired on Sunday night.

As many as 800 people signed up to run the “Race for Survival” at the Johannesburg Zoo yesterday in support of children in South Africa and around the world that continue to die from preventable causes.

Save the Children South Africa commemorates 25th anniversary of UNCRC with call to end corporal punishment

Three years ago the seed for running the 2350km along the Freedom Trail in South Africa was planted and since then the plotting and planning has grown into what you know today as the Freedom Runners.

On 12 January 2010 Haiti was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that affected an estimated three million people.

Desmond Tutu, Shakira, Ben Affleck, Aamir Khan, Bono, Mary Robinson and five Nobel Peace Prize winners have added their names to an open letter to World Leaders to mark the launch of action/2015.

Inputs by Save the Children South Africa to the State of the Nation Address

As the scale of the devastation wrought by Saturday's deadly earthquake in Nepal continues to emerge, nearly 5,000 schools are estimated to have been completely destroyed – which is expected to have a devastating long-term impact on the lives of children, says Save the Children.

One week on from the deadly earthquake in Nepal, Save the Children warns that nearly a third of a million children face months sleeping out in harsh conditions after their houses were destroyed.

Would you believe us if we told you that by 2030 no child in South Africa would be living in extreme poor conditions?

Sue Jones raises over R 50,000 for Save the Children South Africa

For the past few weeks, child trafficking has been making headlines as the Department of Home Affairs presents the rationale for its new regulations for children traveling to or from South Africa.

For the first time in history, we have the opportunity to see a world where every pregnancy is healthy and wanted, where every birth is safe, where every child can survive beyond their 5th birthday, and where all women, children and adolescents are empowered to thrive and realize their full potential.

The International Day for Protection of Children, is observed in many countries as Children's Day on the 1st of June. It also coincides with “Child Protection Week”- being marked in South Africa from today the 31st of May to the 7th of June. .

Only weeks ahead of the United Nations General Assembly summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda- taking place this month- Save the Children South Africa yesterday hosted various stakeholders for a colloquium on implementing the post-2015 agenda.

Unaccompanied migrant children face many risks – sometimes life-threatening – during their journey and once in the country of destination.

As world leaders gather to sign a momentous international development plan at the 70th United Nations Global Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Friday September 25th, Save the Children urges them to ensure that no child is left behind in the arenas of health, education, protection, and child survival.

The South African Schools Act of 1996 contains a landmark clause (section 10) which prohibits the use of corporal punishment in all educational institutions across the country.

Save the Children's corporate supporters and partners are critical to creating sustainable change for children in South Africa.

A new civil society coalition gives communities a commanding platform to improve the health of new-borns, children, adolescents, women and mothers in South Africa.

Save the children South Africa (SCSA) is a child rights non-governmental organisation that endeavours to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate, lasting change in their lives. Save the Children South Africa welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the budget speech 2016.

Save the Children South Africa is pleased with the finding as per the report released by the South Africa Human Rights Commission, in the matter between the Complainants, Andriaan Mostert, Hannah Mostert, Sonke Gender Justice and Carol Bower; and the Respondent, Joshua Generation Church.

Today, the 29th of May 2016 the Minister of Social Development, Ms Bathabile Dlamini officially launched Child Protection Week under the theme “Let Us All Protect Children To Move South Africa Forward“.

Today, in memory of his life, the Save the Children South Africa team in Limopop hosted a screening of the documentary God Grew Tired of Us with unaccompanied migrant children from our Children on the Move project at Tshitandani Child Care Foundation Shelter in Limpopo.

GSK and Save the Children have launched their fourth annual $1 million Healthcare Innovation Award, which rewards innovations in healthcare that help to reduce child deaths in developing countries and have the potential to reach even more children.