救助儿童会在中国 Save the Children in China 周年庆 Anniversary Save the Children in China 2015 Annual Report 1 Our three global Build a better world breakthroughs for 2030: SURVIVE - No child dies from preventable for and with children causes before their fifth birthday LEARN - All children learn from a quality basic education BE PROTECTED - violence against children is no longer tolerated 万 Children are playing in groups in a Save the Children’s rural immunization project village (Xuanhuan county, Dazhou City, Sichuan.) Contents OUR VISION A world in which every child attains the right to survival, 3 Contents 26-28 Protection protection, development and 4 2015 • Statistics 29-31 Disaster Risk Reduction and participation. Emergency Relief for Children 5 2015 • Our Story OUR MISSION Inspire breakthroughs in the way the 32-34 Policy Advocacy world treats children and achieve 6-7 Save the Children’s Work immediate and lasting change in in the World and in China 35-37 Media and Campaign their lives. 8-11 Health and Nutrition 38 Our Supporters OUR VALUES We will stay true to our values of Accountability, Ambition, Collab- 12-25 Education and Development 39 Financial Information oration, Creativity and Integrity. Save the Children obtained consent for all of the photos used in this review. For protection and privacy, some children were given aliases. Many thanks to all who contributed to writing, editing, designing, and printing of this annual review! 2 33 2015 • Our Story 2015 Sta • tistics 2015 was a special year for Save the Children in China, as we celebrat- falling behind in critical subjects like maths; making sure children have the ed 20 years of working formally in China. I remember first hearing about facilities and know how to brush their teeth and wash their hands regu- Save the Children’s work in China in 1997 when I was travelling to Anhui larly; using child friendly spaces as a first line response to protect children We worked in Province for work with another employer. My partner from the provincial after emergencies; helping parents and kindergarten teachers understand provinces, cities government started to tell me about a new partnership he was engaged the critical importance of ‘play’ for learning readiness; ensuring that as kids in with Save the Children involving making welfare home more similar transition from school to the world of work, they have the communica- to foster family styles of care. He was hugely enthusiastic. What stuck in tion, planning, problem solving and confidence they need to thrive; and and regions my mind for many years afterwards was the idea of an organisation which making sure that children with disabilities get the same opportunities as focused on solutions which were simple but effective. other kids by providing them with access to mainstream education when Our projects in China possible. These were just some of the interventions that lay at the heart of We continue at Save the Children China to try to focus on ideas which our programme work and which you can read about in this annual review. directly benefited are simple but effective. For instance, in 2015, we sought to further increase It is a reminder that getting things right for children may involve new ideas the impact of some very simple programme ideas including: introducing and technology (such as the as the mobile apps we have developed for vil- ‘kangaroo mother care’ for premature babies (making sure that the babies lage doctors, teenagers and new parents), but more often it is simply about get all the benefits of skin to skin contact and breastfeeding); helping having the capacity and systems in place to ensure that we help parents, teachers use data from tests to stop children as early as primary school caregivers and frontline children’s workers consistently support children to provinces, cities 420,530 develop with their full potential. across China. Of course, to put simple ideas into practice consistently and sustain- and regions Save the Children in China’s ably, takes a huge team effort between our staff, the frontline children’s Country Director Pia MacRae workers they are collaborating with, our government and social partners is talking to a boy when she and our donors. When all the different partners are working seamlessly across china adults and children visited a kindergarten in together for children, we get a bit of the ‘swan effect’: it looks easy and Hongya county, Meishan city, graceful to watch, but there is a lot of paddling under the water. For that I Sichuan, in 2015. thank everyone who has contributed to our work in 2015. I hope that this review helps to show just how fruitful your hard work and ‘paddling’ has been. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to work with you all to bring about immediate and lasting change for China’s children. Pia MacRae 280,809 Country Director children directly benefited from our work in China. Save the Children in China Our media and We guaranteed high campaign work in uality of child China reached participation in 10 million members of of all the general projects public in 2015. in China. 75% Working together to improve early childhood development services: Save the Children’s staff visiting a kindergarten together with partners in Hongya county, Meishan city, Sichuan, in 2015. 4 55 Where do we work in China? Hebei Shanghai Education Programme Education Programme Save the Children’s Work Shaanxi Early Childhood Care and Development Early Childhood Care and Development Protection Programme Promotion of Basic Education Judicial Protection of Juvenile Jiangsu Youth Vocational Education and Development in the World and in China Protection Programme Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Guizhou Piloting of Child Protection System Develop- Relief for Children Disaster Risk Reduction and Safety Manage- Protection Programme ment ment Piloting of Child Protection System Develop- Judicial Protection of Juvenile ment Yunnan Guangdong Hubei Education Programme Education Programme Promotion of Basic Education Protection Programme Early Childhood Care and Development Xinjiang Promotion of Basic Education Youth Vocational Education and Development Health and nutrition Programme Piloting of Child Protection System Develop- Protection Programme ment Youth Vocational Education and Development Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses Health and Nutrition Programme Development of Family Education Services for Education Programme Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses Positive Parenting Early Childhood Care and Development Protection Programme Promotion of Basic Education Piloting of Child Protection System Develop- Sichuan Youth Vocational Education and Development ment Education Programme Anti-trafficking in Women and Children Promotion of Basic Education Tibet Judicial Protection of Juvenile Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Education Programme Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Relief for Children Early Childhood Care and Development Relief for Children Disaster Risk Reduction Promotion of Basic Education Xinjiang Disaster Relief for Children Health and Nutrition Programme Youth Vocational Education and Development) Improve the Immunization Quality for Children Health and Nutrition Programme Beijing in Rural Areas Newborn Basic Healthcare Education Programme Newborn Basic Healthcare Beijing Early Childhood Care and Development Protection Programme Promotion of Basic Education for Migrant Piloting of Child Protection System Develop- Children ment Hebei Youth Vocational Education and Development Jiangsu Shaanxi Tibet Sichuan Shanghai Hubei Guizhou Yunnan Guangdong Countries Save the Children works in In 2015, we worked in 12 provinces in China, 120 countries in the world. 6 7 Why are we concerned about children’s health Health and Nutrition and nutrition? Save the Children’s child health and nutrition programme primar- ily focuses on child survival in China, to ensure that all children survive until their 5th birthday. China has seen significant progress in the area of Doctor Danam’s Story maternal and child health over the past years, and met the UN Millennium Development Goal for under 5 mortality ahead of schedule. Despite this remarkable progress, there are major disparities in maternal The Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) project consequently saved many newborns whose lives were and child health conditions across different regions. In 2014, the under 5 developed by Save the Children in Tibet provides endangered. Frontline health workers who received HBB mortality in rural parts of China was 2.4 times over that in urban areas, and grassroots health workers with training on neonatal training provided by Save the Children have successfully the under 5 mortality in western China was 3.1 times over that in eastern resuscitation. Across the world close to one quarter saved the lives of at least 30 babies by applying the ap- China. Pneumonia (15%) and diarrhoea (3%) remain the leading causes of of all neonatal deaths are caused by birth asphyxia. propriate techniques. death for Chinese children under five years, jointly accounting for approxi- Through training and support, healthcare workers in mately 20%. In 2012, around 93,000 newborns died in China, accounting remote and resource scarce areas in China effectively “In the past, I wasn’t aware of standardised proce- for 51% of all under 5 deaths, and making China the country with the learn to save the lives of babies when they are born dures or how to apply medical technology to save babies second highest absolute number of neonatal deaths in the world. not breathing. who couldn’t breathe upon birth. Previously, I would immediately perform artificial respiration to clear new- Accordingly, the major challenges for child health and nutrition in Yeshi is an ordinary housewife residing in a born’s respiratory tract, and then resorted to artificial China include: 1) Disparities in the quality of services between eastern and sparsely populated, pastoral area in northern Tibet resuscitation to help baby breathe. But such approach western China and between urban and rural areas; 2) The increasingly larg- Autonomous Region.