2015

OUR IMPACT

SAVE THE CHILDREN IS AMBITIOUS Our goal is to ensure that by 2030 no child dies of preventable causes before their fifth birthday, every child has the opportunity to learn to read and write, and all children are protected from violence.

Susie StaleyBOARD CHAIR

Heather Hayden CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

That’s going to be a tough task in a world where more people are on the move since World War 2. Around 47 million people are fleeing from war, disaster or persecution. Half of these are children.

That’s why we’re ambitious. Our work is so important and the commitment from our supporters is vital. We can’t do what we do without you.

In 2015 Save the Children New Zealand reached thousands of children in some of the poorest and most remote parts of the Pacific and Asia. Children who couldn’t read a single word are now learning to read and write. Children who have lived through disaster have received food and life-saving aid. Children who live in vulnerable places in the world are now learning how to survive in and prepare for a world where climate-related disasters are becoming more severe and frequent.

We’re also helping children right here in New Zealand, and you can read more about that in this brochure.

If the world is going to cope with the changes and challenges of the future, we must give all children the best start possible. Our founder Eglantyne Jebb put it best when she said, “Humanity owes the child the best it has to give”.

With your help, we will continue to do whatever it takes to save children’s lives.

OUR IMPACT

We outline the total investment we’ve made in each project in 2015. This includes our direct project costs and a proportional allocation of the costs of designing and monitoring our projects to ensure they deliver real and lasting change for children.

We also highlight the key impacts we’ve achieved for children since each project began.

SAVING CHILDREN IN AN EMERGENCY

Cyclone Pam Vanuatu In March 2015, the tiny Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu was hit by Cyclone Pam, affecting over 166,000 people – of whom almost half were children.

In 2015 Save the Children responded to major emergency appeals around the world. In these situations time is of the essence and our generous supporters stepped in quickly to help us save children’s lives.

The Nepal EarthquakesThe April and May earthquakes in Nepal resulted in the deaths of almost 9,000 people, with more than 22,000 people injured and eight million people affected.

2015 INVESTMENT

$362,478OUR IMPACT TO DATE:

• 1,950 food baskets provided to families

• repaired schools

• helped to establish 434 temporary learning centres and 22 health posts, keeping children healthy and at school.

2015 INVESTMENT

$167,542OUR IMPACT TO DATE:

• Contributed to supplying food and water to 22,749 people

• Helped to supply shelter kits to almost 20,000 people who had lost their homes in the cyclone

• Supplied 70 schools with tarpaulins and tents so that they could continue providing an education to almost 6,000 children.

Access to clean water saves children’s lives in the aftermath of emergencies.

A family with their hygiene kit from Save the Children after the Nepal earthquakes.

SAVING CHILDREN FROM DISASTERSNot only do we help children to survive a disaster; we help children and their families to become strong and well prepared for disasters so that when they do strike children can continue their education and their families can continue to earn a living. With the right kind of preparation, a disaster doesn’t have to mean the end of the world.

FijiWith the support of a generous trust, we purchased pre-positioned goods for Fiji.

2015 INVESTMENT

$25,000 OUR IMPACT TO DATE:

• 30 Child Friendly Space kits and 312 school bag kits purchased, which were used immediately after Cyclone Winston to keep children safe and ensure they could return to normality as quickly as possible.

LaosWe’re helping children and their families to plan for disasters in the flood-prone provinces of Sayaboury and Luang Prabang.

53% COMPLETED

TIMELINE: FEBRUARY 2013 – JUNE 2019

2015 INVESTMENT

$562,087OUR IMPACT TO DATE:

• 14,048 people now know what to do in an emergency situation

• 69 villages and 99 schools now have plans, policies and school curricula outlining what to do in

an emergency situation, helping to keep children safe

• Many families have doubled their incomes, and one family 10-fold, through our work to help them diversify the way they earn money. This means they will be in a better position to re-build after an emergency.

A home destroyed by Cyclone Winston.

Flooding in Luang Prabang.

Two-year-old Jillian stands in the ruins of her house, destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan

“Disaster risk reduction’ projects are critical to reduce the loss of lives and livelihoods, and ensure that children are safe and can immediately resume their education following a disaster. Every $1 spent on disaster risk reduction saves $7 in disaster response and recovery costs, meaning that your donations for emergencies and disasters will go so much further.”

Leanne Harrison DISASTER RISK REDUCTION MANAGER

2015 INVESTMENT

$525,553 OUR IMPACT TO DATE:

• 204 children have learnt how to protect their local environment

• 32 schools are now implementing improved safety procedures, helping to protect children.

Philippines The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, with an average of five to seven destructive typhoons each year.

2015 INVESTMENT

$920,797 OUR IMPACT TO DATE:

• 9,609 children have learnt how to respond to a potential disaster through emergency drills in schools

• 47 teachers and 50 parents have been trained to respond to disasters and keep children safe in emergency situations.

55% COMPLETED

TIMELINE: APRIL 2014 – APRIL 2017

Cambodia Children and their families in the flood-prone Koh Kong province of Cambodia are learning how to adapt to climate change.

41% COMPLETED

TIMELINE: MAY 2014 – APRIL 2018

An education is vital to help children overcome extreme poverty and protect them from exploitation and trafficking. A good education gives girls and boys the right to explore the potential they are born with.

SAVING CHILDREN THROUGH AN EDUCATION

2015 INVESTMENT

$1,297,955 OUR IMPACT TO DATE:

• Supported 373 teachers and 317 reading camp volunteers, working to improve the learning and reading skills of 8,549 children.

IndonesiaWe are working in one of the poorest, most remote parts of Indonesia to help improve children’s education by teaching them to read. This will help to give these children more opportunities in the future.

58% COMPLETED

TIMELINE: APRIL 2013 – MAY 2019

“After working for almost three years in impoverished Eastern Indonesia, where many children cannot read a single word of Indonesian at age 10, we’ve ensured that 8,500 children have had a successful start to their reading, achieving well above previous levels. We expanded our work in the region in 2015. With the right teacher training, the atmosphere in classrooms has completely changed from one of rote learning to one of excitement about learning and a love of books and reading.”

Trisha NallyEDUCATION PROGRAMMES MANAGER

Gersiana Koli (10) is now learning to read through our reading project in Indonesia.

2015 INVESTMENT

$651,648 OUR IMPACT TO DATE:

• On average, more than 949 children have been able to access early childhood education through our centres each year, with more than 500 children per year going

on to school with important skills so they can progress in their education

• 38 centres are now fully registered with the government, meaning that they will receive funding and support into the future

• The centres have well trained staff who are supported by the Fiji Early Childhood Teachers Association.

FijiWe have been working in impoverished communities in squatter settlements across Fiji to provide a quality early childhood education to children who previously could not access such facilities.

100% COMPLETED

TIMELINE: JANUARY 2012 – DECEMBER 2015

2015 INVESTMENT

$235,603 OUR IMPACT TO DATE:

• Provided an education for 439 kindergarten-aged children and 778 primary school children

• 1,804 parents and teachers have been trained to support children’s learning and development

• The dropout rate for primary school children has been halved as mother’s are better educated around the benefits of an education and the impact this will have on their child’s future.

BangladeshWe fund a preschool and a primary school in Daulatdia, one of the largest brothels in Bangladesh. We also help students transition to secondary school so that through a good education they can escape the sex industry.

58% COMPLETED

TIMELINE: JUNE 2012 – DECEMBER 2018

Two friends in our early childhood education centre.

Two friends in our early childhood education centre in the Nasinu district, Fiji.

SAVING CHILDREN FROM A LIFE OF EXTREME POVERTY

“It is fantastic that our eastern Nepal project, now into its second (of five) years, has already reached more than 2,500 low-caste, poor and vulnerable people in remote rural villages. 129 families have already increased their incomes by an average of NZ$300 and many more families are growing nutritious food in ‘kitchen’ gardens. Children from these families will go to school healthy and strong, and will no longer need to work long hours to supplement the family incomes.”

Miranda CahnINTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES DIRECTOR

We’re training and supporting farmers in remote Udayapur, so that they can earn enough money to feed their children and keep them in school.

We are also helping young people to access government social support services so that they have the safety net they are entitled to. This will give

extremely poor and orphaned children access to health and education.

Approximately 40% of the children in this region suffer from malnutrition, and children often can’t attend school full time as they need to work to supplement their families’ incomes.

Nepal

2015 INVESTMENT

$357,750 OUR IMPACT TO DATE:

• 422 farmers have been trained in vegetable farming, meaning more

income for their families and healthy, nutritious food for their children

• 253 households have established kitchen gardens, helping them to increase their food security and provide nutritious food for their children.

35% COMPLETED

TIMELINE: JULY 2014– JUNE 2019

The Tamang family is learning how to grow new crops, such as tomatoes, so that they can increase their household income.

SAVING CHILDREN RIGHT HERE IN NEW ZEALAND

Te Korowai MokopunaAs part of our partnership with Barnardos, we helped to fund four whānau centres in Auckland. Called Te Korowai Mokopuna (a cloak around children), they support hard-to-reach families to achieve real and lasting change.

In 2015 we connected with 300 families and worked with them on a range of issues, such as dealing with debt, improving parenting skills, individual counselling, and drug and alcohol support.

Child Friendly SpacesIn 2015 we officially became part of the Guide to the National Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan to provide child friendly spaces in the event of an emergency right here in New Zealand. If and when an emergency strikes our trained volunteers are there to provide a safe place for children to play in evacuation centres. It protects them from the trauma going on around them.

Our New Zealand projects are ongoing

2015 NZ PROJECTS

$180,258OUR IMPACT TO DATE:

• 36 volunteers trained to deliver Child Friendly Spaces in the event of an emergency

• 300 hard-to-reach families helped

• 38 young people trained in leadership skills through our Teen Building programme.

Children and their families are supported in our four whānau centres.

NEPAL

14%

BANGLADESH

4%

CAMBODIA

10%

PHILLIPINES

17%LAOS

11%

INDONESIA

25% NEW ZEALAND

3%FIJI

13%VANUATU

3%

WHERE WE WORKA split of our programme expenditure by country

WHAT WE DOA percentage of our progamme expenditure by thematic area 45%

EDUCATION

38%DISASTER RISK

REDUCTION

10%ERADICATING

CHILD POVERTY

7%EMERGENCY RESPONSE

SAVING CHILDREN IS AN INVESTMENT IN THE FUTURE14 cents in every dollar raised is spent on administration, which enables us to remain a professional, efficient, accountable organisation. The rest of our revenue is spent on delivering projects to children and helping us to raise more funds in order to increase our impact for children.

Where our funding comes from

2015 REVENUE

4%

3%

32%12%

Public Fundraising

NZ Govt Grants

Branch Fundraising

Other

49%

Legacies

$8,369,996

WE’RE THE LARGEST INDEPENDENT CHILD RIGHTS ORGANISATION IN THE WORLD We deliver world-class solutions and sustainable results for children in 120 countries. We do what ever it takes to create a better future for children.

We are working to ensure that, by 2030:

No child dies from preventable causes before their fifth birthday

All children learn from a quality basic education

Violence against children is no longer tolerated

None of our work would be possible without our generous supporters.

Explore more onlineVisit us online and read stories about children from around the world and follow our progress as we reach our project milestones.

www.savethechildren.org.nz

Children running in Qelekuro village, Tailevu Province. Their home village was badly hit by Cyclone Winston, most of the houses were destroyed.

To help us continue our life-saving work, visit www.savethechildren.org.nz

Or call us on 0800 167 168

“Humanity owes the child the best it has to give”

Eglantyne JebbFOUNDER OF SAVE THE CHILDREN, 1919