Save the Children - India

Volunteer Opportunities: Yes

History

Save the Children's s association with India is more than 80 years old when our founder Eglantyne Jebb drafted the 'Declaration of the Rights of the Child' in 1922 which was signed by Mahatma Gandhi in 1931. It was Jebb’s vision which was eventually formalized as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1989.

Mission

To inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives

Vision

A world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation