New Zealand
Who is Save the Children?
Our Mission
Save the Children fights for children's rights. We deliver immediate and lasting improvements to children’s lives worldwide.
Our Vision
Save the Children works for:
- a world which respects and values each child
- a world which listens to children and learns
- a world where all children have hope and opportunity
What Sets Us Apart
Save the Children is the world’s largest independent organisation for children, making a difference to children’s lives in over 120 countries.
From emergency relief to long-term development, Save the Children helps children to achieve a happy, healthy and secure childhood. Save the Children listens to children, involves children and ensures their views are taken into account. Save the Children secures and protects children’s rights – to food, shelter, health care, education and freedom from violence, abuse and expolitation.
Save the Children is a non-political, non-sectarian development agency that delivers immediate and lasting improvements to children's lives worldwide.
Save the Children New Zealand is part of the International Save the Children Alliance, comprising 29 member countries working in more than 100 countries around the world. Together Alliance members implement around NZ$1 billion worth of development projects annually.
We are global AND local
More than 6,000 Kiwi volunteers contribute to this international movement and more than 20,000 New Zealanders donate to Save the Children each year.
In addition to supporting overseas programmes run by other members of the Alliance, Save the Children New Zealand runs its own programme in New Zealand. We also manage a programme in Papua New Guinea, which focuses on improving the health of women and children, with a particular emphasis on helping children with disabilities. Funds from the New Zealand Government support this programme, and those of our Alliance partners.
We are well-established
New Zealanders began supporting Save the Children's work soon after the organisation was founded in England in 1919. The first New Zealand branch of Save the Children was established in Christchurch by Minnie Havelaar in 1947. Now there are 29 autonomous branches and 17 sub branches nation-wide, supported by a small national office in Wellington.
We work hard for children
Save the Children New Zealand raised more than $10 million in 2004/2005. The organisation prides itself on its cost efficiency, as the bulk of our administration costs are funded through the profits from our national chain of shops and legacies. We guarantee that at least 80 cents of every dollar donated goes directly to children. We aim to keep our administration cost ratio below 10% -for 2006/07, the administration cost ratio was 7% (click here for a copy of our 2006/2007 Annual Report [Adobe PDF, 2024 Kb]).
Annual Report 2007
Our 2007 Annual Report focusses on the work we do. You can read it here. [Adobe PDF, 2024 Kb]