Profile
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
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Website | www.savethechildren.org |
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In their own words | The “leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of children in need...” |
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Funding
- In 2017, total income was $807.4 million; total expenses were $771.7 million.
- Save the Children received $322.4 million in “grants and contracts” from the United States.
- Save the Children has also received grants from Norway, Italy, Denmark, and Germany for projects in the West Bank and Gaza. (See table below for further funding information.)
- “Foundation Partners” include Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Open Society Foundation.
- In 2017-2018, Save the Children was granted 13.2 million Swedish kroner from Sweden for “Child’s rights and Child Protection in OPT.”
- In 2017, Save the Children received €2.8 million from Ireland.
- In 2014-2016, Save the Children granted €1.3 million to the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC), a Palestinian NGO that is highly active in promoting BDS campaigns.
Activities
- Save the Children claims that while they work with “other organizations, governments, non-profits and a variety of local partners,” they maintain “independence without political agenda or religious orientation.”
- Save the Children runs a number of projects in Gaza and the West Bank, implementing “programs in the areas of education, economic opportunities and psychosocial health… humanitarian assistance, child protection and youth development.”
- Despite a humanitarian mandate, some of these programs include major political and partisan advocacy that fuels the conflict, echoing the Palestinian narrative of victimization.
- In November 2018, during the violence on the Gaza border, Save the Children stated that “The Israeli government must end the use of sniper fire and live ammunition against children in Gaza. The killing and wounding of children is never acceptable.” Save the Children does not question why these children were present in an obviously violent situation where there was a known potential for injury, nor does the organization condemn Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups’ recruitment and use of children throughout the violence. The NGO also ignored the violent nature of the protests, which have consisted of an organized armed attack on the Israeli border and IDF positions, attempts to destroy and breach the border fence, and sustained arson, rocket, and mortar attacks on Israeli civilian communities.
- In February 2018, as a member of Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA), Save the Children published a report titled “50 Years of Occupation: Dispossession, Deprivation and De-development” that accused Israel of “systemic, decades-long squeeze of Palestinian economic prospects and human rights.”
- In September 2017, Save the Children published an article titled “Gaza: One Million Palestinian Children in ‘Unlivable’ Conditions” blaming Israel for a “decade of isolation” of Gaza that “had reduced power available to households…” It also called on Israel to blindly “lift the Gaza blockade,” without acknowledging the rationale behind it – to prevent weapon smuggling into Hamas-controlled Gaza. The publication also does not mention the word “Hamas” or the commandeering of aid by the terror group, and minimizes the role of Egypt.
- In August 2017, to mark World Humanitarian Day, Save the Children referred to an “alarming rise in abuses” and claimed that “After 50 years of occupation, generations of Palestinian children remain trapped in an ongoing cycle of violence and diminishing human rights” and “are being denied a future.”
- In August 2017, Save the Children accused Israel of “target[ing]” Palestinian “educational facilities” and alleged that children “face countless threats in simply trying to reach school and enjoy their basic right to education. These threats include: violence and harassment from settlers/Israeli soldiers on the journey to school, military activity in or around their schools, military or police arresting and detaining children from their classrooms, lost time due to the closure of a military area or firing zone, delays crossing checkpoints…” Save the Children ignored Palestinian incitement of children for violence, the use of schools to indoctrinate children with antisemitic and violent propaganda, and the recruitment and use of Palestinian children by armed groups.
- During the 2014 Gaza conflict, Save the Children published a full-page advertisement in papers throughout the UK of the names of Palestinian children who were killed; a similar list of Israeli children was not produced. Similarly, Save the Children Australia released a highly emotive YouTube video, “One child killed every hour in the Israel/ Gaza conflict” (August 5, 2014), concluding with a call to “Stop the use of explosive weapons in Gaza and Israel. End the blockade.”
- Similarly, in a 2013 report “Attacks on Education,” disproportionate emphasis is placed on the alleged challenges to child education in Gaza, with little mention of the obstacles Israeli children face as a result of illegal rocket attacks.
- The organization’s statement on the Gaza conflict in November 2012 focused on children in Gaza entirely and omitted the devastating impact of missile attacks targeting civilians in Israel, including children in Sderot and other southern cities.
Partners
- Partners with Ma’an Development Center.
- Member of the “Displacement Work Group,” an initiative of Badil and OCHA, comprising NGOs including: Addameer, Al-Haq, Al-Mezan, AIC, ARIJ, Badil, BIMKOM, B’Tselem, CARE Intnl., DCI – Palestine section, Diakonia, EAPPI, Ir Amim, ICAHD, Maan Development Ctr, MAP UK, Oxfam UK, Oxfam Solidarite – Belgium, PA Govt. Spokesperson, PCHR, RHR, Society of St. Yves, Shatil, UNFPA, ACRI, UNFPA, WCLAC, World Vision, and Yesh Din.
- Save the Children is a member of UNICEF’s “Working Group on Grave Violations against Children” aimed at undertaking “consolidated efforts to monitor and report on grave violations against children in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).” (Read NGO Monitor’s Report “UNICEF and its NGO Working Group: Failing Children.)
- Member of Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA).
Grants to Save the Children for Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza (amounts in $US)
Donor | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
Germany | 5,058,162 | | |
Denmark | 76,523 | 121,615 | |
Italy | 1,080,930 | 1,080,930 | |
Norway | | 247,017 | 117,000 |
Canada | | | 756,079 |
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