They are an international organization working in more than 120 countries to promote and defend the rights of children. Their activities started in 1919 and they have contributed to the development of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the United Nations.
Their vision is to have a world where all children are guaranteed their right to survival, protection, development and participation.
Their mission is to promote significant advances in the way the world treats children, in order to generate immediate and lasting changes in their lives.
Save the Children has worked in Peru for almost 30 years, focusing on the country’s poorest areas. Since November 2011, they promoted the creation of the SC Children Advisory Council. Its objective is to contribute with SC Program in Peru to take good decisions in favor of children´s rights. They will give them advice, ideas, suggestions and help them with the situation analysis, formulation of plans and / or proposals and evaluation. In response to the invitation of SC, children´s organizations appointed a representative to the Children Advisory Council, formed with the participation of:
