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Save the Children
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(London SE5) The charity had its beginnings in the distress of an English woman, Eglantyne Jebb, when she saw children starving in Austria in 1919 in the aftermath of World War I. The public response to her appeal for them was such that relief work was almost immediately extended to other countries. Children in Britain were included from 1926, originally to cope with the suffering caused by the *General Strike. A declaration of The Rights of the Child, drafted by Miss Jebb in 1923, was later incorporated as part of the United Nations charter. Since 1970 the charity has had a very committed president in the Princess Royal, and it now has health, education and welfare programmes in more than 50 countries.
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