November the 20th is World Children's Day – that's why we celebrate children's rights! And this around 99 years after our founder Eglantyne Jebb documented the rights of children in a first declaration in Geneva.
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – a milestone for children
Civil war in Yemen: The greatest humanitarian crisis of our time
A safe place during the war
Save the Children wants to support those children. Therefore, we have been responding to the current crisis since 2015 and have been able to reach more than 6.8 million children with our aid. This includes child friendly places – for example in Taiz in the south of the country.
With our child friendly centre, we enable the children to have a safe place where they can be with their friends and have a break from everyday life. The centre is an important place where children can learn and play. Under the supervision of teachers, children, and young adults thus experience organised games or learn handicraft skills.
The minute I enter the centre, I feel I have gone to a place, where I learn beautiful things that I didn’t know about before.
Not only in Yemen, but worldwide and also in Switzerland, we support children with our programme “child friendly spaces” – whether it is in emergency shelters after natural disasters, in refugee camps in countries of origin or transit, or in asylum shelters in countries of arrival. Children often have neither retreat nor shelter in such situations. With our child friendly spaces, we therefore offer children the opportunity to cope with what they have experienced and to find peace. A safe place, age-appropriate games, developmental activities, and clear structures allow the children to regain a bit of normality and security.