Talk:Save the Children

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I have change making to make to complete a sentence

I have deleted "the world’s largest independent movement for children" since I believe it to be false. Save the Children seems to be much smaller than Unicef but I guess Unicef isn't considered independent. However on the most recent figures I have available (2004) it seems to be significantly smaller than SOS Children's Villages both in terms of number of countries (130 versus 114) and also turnover (it looks like global turnover is US$771 million in 2004 versus 652m Euros for SOS). --BozMotalk 15:37, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

I wouldn't consider UNICEF independent as it is an arm of the UN. Also, where did you get your figure for SOS - Their website shows their 2004 income as 296,102,000 euros. Quite a bit less that Save the Children's for the same year. Looking at the figures for 2005 and 2006, I think the Save the Children Alliance is far larger than SOS. Omnidewe (talk) 12:17, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Look harder. The figure of 296m Euros is the international transfer figure. Can you find the equivalent figure for STC? There is a further 50m Euros SOS raised in the third world itself and around 350m Euros paying for the operations in the first world looking after children essentially on the part of the state. I approached the CEO of STC about the claim (I've got the email somewhere) and his response was that for 2004 he agreed SOS was higher but that was a snapshot (which is fair: SOS seems to be bigger when the dollar is weak, smaller when dollar is small). Frustratingly though the 2005 and 2006 consolidated figures for SOS don't seem to be published yet. --BozMo talk 13:53, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

The FT Dalberg report earlier this year for total global income at http://media.ft.com/cms/e462102e-2b03-11dc-85f9-000b5df10621,dwp_uuid=c1927432-1f9e-11dc-ac86-000b5df10621.pdf

gives a figure of $807m for SOS and $919m for Save the Children but again unfortunately this compares 2004 for SOS (only figures available, got an email for that too) with 2005 for STC. Its pretty marginal. --BozMo talk 13:59, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

"questions would later be asked as to the long-term effects of such images on the popular consciousness." This statement needs substantiation -- who made this claim? what is the nature of the effects? --babbage 19:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair point, it needs to be clarified. I think it would be generally agreed that in the 1990s development agencies became very wary about the use of graphic images of suffering for fundraising, out of regard both for the dignity of those portrayed, and a belief that continued use of such images led to stereotyping. However, it's difficult to find an easily accessible source for this. Here is something that might help: Imaging Famine

Rbreen 22:42, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Predators of 6 years

This is shocking: Save the Children on May, 2008, stated that UN peacekeepers and aid workers in Ivory Coast, southern Sudan and Haiti, were molesting children as young as six. Most victims suffered sexual exploitation and abuse in silence, resulting in unreported and unpunished crimes.news.bbc.co.uk, Peacekeepers 'abusing children' --Florentino floro (talk) 10:54, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Shocking but I am not sure that Save the Children's involvement (as whistle blower mainly) means that it should be in this article. I will leave it for a bit whilst it is topical anyway. --BozMo talk 21:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

i own noobs —Preceding unsigned comment added by Quis Seperabit (talk • contribs) 14:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)