Our program benefits young children and their families, with a special focus on families led by single mothers, throughout four municipalities of the Department of Chinandega. Save the Children's food security programs in Northwest Nicaragua has reduced chronic malnutrition from 23% to 10% since 2002.
Activities
We organize farmers who produce high-yield, non-traditional crops into groups, improve agricultural techniques, enhance small businesses in rural communities and work with communities to ensure the sustainability of programming.
Expected Outcomes
Save the Children mobilizes communities and partner organizations to address the root causes of food insecurity, targeting the most vulnerable, usually young children and their mothers.
Project Message
Save the Children has mounted a vigorous and comprehensive effort to mitigate the impact of the food crisis on children and to prevent a more significant crisis for them in the coming year.
- Charles MacCormack, President and CEO
Project Contact
Megan McLain,
Manager, Corporate Partnerships
54 Wilton Road Westport, CT 06880
United States
8007283843
Save the Children is the world's leading independent organization for children. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Organization's Programs
Save the Children serves impoverished, marginalized and vulnerable children and families in more than 120 nations. Our programs reach both children and those working to save and improve their lives, including parents, caregivers, community members and members of our partner organizations. We help save children's lives, protect them from exploitation and assist them in accessing education and health care.
Through disaster risk reduction, emergency preparedness, rapid humanitarian relief and long-term recovery programs, Save the Children also assists millions of girls and boys at risk of or affected by natural disasters, conflicts and ethnic violence.
Organization Statistics
Financial Statistics
Carolyn Miles,
President & CEO
Founded in 1932
Employees: 5000
Volunteers: 34
Other funding sources: USAID Religious Affiliation: n/a
Personnel Overview
Dr. Charles MacCormack - President & CEO
Charles MacCormack is the President of Save the Children. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Save the Children Alliance, implementing $1 billion of programs for children in 120 countries. He currently serves as Board Chair of InterAction and as Co-Chair of both the Basic Education Coalition and the Campaign for Effective Global Leadership.
