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Our History. Meet our founder. Back to Top. Spam Control Text: Please leave this field empty. Whether you host a school supply drive or volunteer, you can make a difference for under-resourced teachers and students.

Great collaborations lead to great impact. Learn more about how you can support equitable learning environments in underserved schools through Kids In Need Foundation. Supply A Teacher. Donors and partners can fund an individual teacher, school, or entire district with critically-needed learning resources. Supply A Student. Provides a backpack filled with school supplies to a student in need. While individuals can provide support for students, this program inspires groups and companies to come together to host backpack builds, fundraise to adopt an underserved school, or provide company match programs.

This year's Appeal is on Friday 18 November and promises to be bigger and better than ever before so make sure you get involved and help us to make a difference to children who need our help the most, especially in such tough economic times. Pudsey Bear Pudsey Bear made his television debut in when Terry introduced the new, brown cuddly mascot to the audience. As the world's leading expert on childhood, we believe that every child deserves a future.

This belief is at the heart of everything we do. We know you share it, too. The scale of crisis in the world has increased exponentially in recent years. There are more children living in conflict and war zones now than at any time in the past 20 years, as well as more child refugees.

Natural disasters are not only more frequent, but more severe. As always, children in crisis are among the most vulnerable. In particular, the more than 12 million refugee boys and girls now face a triple jeopardy. Not only have they lost their homes and lost their education, they now face the additional impact of COVID on their futures.

As the world leader in protecting children from the physical and emotional wounds of war, Save the Children been a lifeline for families fleeing violence in Syria , Venezuela , Myanmar and dozens of other crises around the world.

And as the largest aid organization in Yemen , we helped 1.