Save the Children campaigns for long-term change in addition to providing shorter-term support to improve children's lives.

As an independent and global organisation, Save the Children has a powerful voice in campaigning for change, and a track record of success.

Save the Children encourages its supporters to put pressure on decision makers and opinion formers to change policies and practices, locally and globally, to ensure children's rights become reality.

This year almost nine million children around the world could die from basic illnesses before their fifth birthday. We stopped this happening in rich countries – we can stop it in poor countries too.

That is why Save the Children is building a worldwide campaign to get health services to the children that need them most.

Learn more about the Every One campaign.

Rewrite the Future is the first global campaign involving all 28 members of the Save the Children Alliance. Save the Children is calling on governments and international agencies to put policies and resources in place to provide quality education for all children. More than 37 million children around the world can't go to school because they live in countries affected by conflict. This is over half the number of children out of school worldwide. Millions more are receiving a substandard education.

Through this campaign we intend to bring education and hope to those millions of children affected by conflict.

• Alliance: INHOPE
  INHOPE represents Internet Hotlines all over the world, supporting them in their aim to respond to reports of illegal content to make the Internet safer. Several Save the Children organisations work with INHOPE to provide channels for reporting these materials.
• Denmark: Save a child for 25-ører
  Save the Children Denmark are urging people to donate their deleted currency to save a child. For to 25-ører kan vi behandle et barn i Afrika mod diarré – og det kan betyde forskellen på liv og død, siger kommunkationschef i Red Barnet, Mogens Damgaard.
• Japan: Speaking out
  Speaking out is a volunteer lead initiative which raises awareness and deepens understanding of the rights of the child in Japan.
• Netherlands: Save the Children betrekt jongeren bij klimaatproblematiek
  Save the Children Netherlands involve young people in tackling climate problems. Geen halve maatregelen. Teken voor een krachtige Klimaatwet!
• Netherlands: Yes! Young Entrepreneurs for Schools part of Rewrite the Future
  Save the Children Netherlands is challenging young people to come up with a creative and enterprising plan. Save the Children daagt jongeren uit een creatief en ondernemend plan te bedenken waarmee geld verdiend wordt voor onderwijsprojecten.
• New Zealand: Every child counts
  Save the Children New Zealand is sending a loud and clear message to politicians: put children at the centre of public policy.
• Norway: WHISPER (HVISK)
  Child trafficking is a serious breach of children’s rights. WHISPER (HVISK) is Save the Children’s way of combating child trafficking in Norway. Handel med barn er et alvorlig brudd påbarns rettigheter. HVISK er Redd Barnas innsats i kampen mot handel med barn i Norge. Save the Children Norway has also linked up with other Save the Children Members to run the Child Trafficking Response Programme .
• Spain: Niños y conflictos armados
  Thousands of children are recruited from around the world by both governments and by armed opposition groups. Save the Children Spain is part of a coalition to educate Spanish society on the subject. Miles de menores son reclutados en todo el mundo tanto por fuerzas gubernamentales como por grupos armados de oposición. La mayoría tiene entre 15 y 18 años, pero algunos no han cumplido siquiera los 10.
• Sweden – Effekt
  Save the Children Sweden produces Effekt, an online magazine for 13-17 year olds.
  
• UK: Saving Children's Lives
  Over 9 million children die every year before their fifth birthday. But we know, together, it's possible to stop this injustice. We just have to act. We want 10 million people to take action by 2010.
  
• USA: Survive to 5
  Did you know that 60 per cent of newborn deaths in developing countries can be prevented? It just takes a simple package of basic health measures provided to mothers and babies.