About save the children

Save the Children is India’s leading independent child rights NGO. We work in 18 Indian states (as of December 2015) and have changed the lives of 6.1 million Indian children since April 2008. We runs programmes in the remotest corners of India and urban areas to provide quality education and healthcare, protection from harm and abuse and life-saving aid during emergencies to children. Globally, Save the Children is present in 120 countries and works to improve the lives of children living there.

Save the Children believes in giving a future to EVERY LAST CHILD. In the next three years, Save the Children will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to improve the lives of two million of India’s most excluded and vulnerable children, including 500,000 children currently living on the streets.

Save the Children is registered as ‘Bal Raksha Bharat’ in India under the Societies Registration Act 1860. All donations made to Save the Children are tax-exempted under section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961.