Quarterly Charity: Save the Children

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From January through March of 2017, Mumbling Mommy will be highlighting and supporting the charity Save the Children. We spotlight charities that specifically help children and women. In addition, Save the Children is listed among Charity Navigator’s top organizations providing much-needed aid in the Syrian crisis. As we wrap up our holiday celebrations, it’s a good time to remember to continue giving to charities throughout the year.

Here are a few brief facts from Save the Children’s website:

Save the Children is working in Syria and in refugee communities in the region, providing children and their families with clothes, shelters, protection, clean water, and emergency care.
Save the Children works in 120 countries, including the United States. The organization states, “we give children a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. By transforming children’s lives now, we change the course of their future and ours.”
The organization provides education, health, and emergency programs to U.S. children living in poverty; offers education, preschool programs, books, and school supplies to children around the world; provides emergency response during natural disasters, war, famine, and disease outbreaks; offers health and nutrition programs worldwide; provides prevention and care programs for children with HIV and AIDS; helps improve the food supply, farming practices, and finances of families so they can feed their children; and protects children around the world from abuse, neglect, violence, and exploitation.
Those who are interested in helping can donate a one-time gift, sponsor a child, or shop the gift catalog.
In 2015, 87% of all expenditures went to providing services.
You can follow Save the Children’s blog at this link.

Editors’ Note: Mumbling Mommy supports charities that have an overall four-star rating at charitynavigator.org.

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