Save the Children Australia
| Founded | 1919 |
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| Founder | Eglantyne Jebb Dorothy Buxton |
| Founded at | London, England (UK) |
| Type | NGO |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Area served | Australia and Worldwide |
| Website | savethechildren |
| CEO: Paul Ronalds Vision: "A world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation." | |
Save the Children Australia is an aid and development agency dedicated to helping children in Australia and overseas. It is an independent, not-for-profit and secular organisation.
Save the Children Australia is a member of the Save the Children International, a group of 30 organisations sharing a global vision and strategy for improving the lives of children worldwide.
Save the Children Australia, and the other members of the Save the Children Association, focus on responding to humanitarian emergencies, reducing infant and child mortality, protecting children from violence, and ensuring all children have access to a quality basic education.
In 2014, Save the Children Australia responded to 18 humanitarian emergencies, and ran 149 projects that reached 12 million people in 29 countries.