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Eglantyne Jebb (25 August 1876 – 17 December 1928) was a British social reformer who founded the Save the Children organisation at the end of the First World War to relieve the effects of famine in Austria-Hungary and Germany.
Eglantyne Jebb – the woman who founded Save the Children over 100 years ago in 1919 – was one of the world’s most influential champions of children’s rights. It began when Jebb saw something she knew wasn’t right.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Eglantyne Jebb had a vision: to achieve and protect the rights of children worlwide. She was driven by the belief that all children - whoever they are, wherever they are - have the right to a healthy, happy, fulfilling life.
Mar 22, 2019 · 100 years ago this May, a courageous Shropshire-woman was arrested in Trafalgar Square. Eglantyne Jebb had been protesting about the starvation facing thousands of children inside Austria and Germany, countries that had been at war with Britain just a few months earlier.
Sep 13, 2019 · Eglantyne Jebb: the woman who saved the children. Friday 13th September 2019. Eglantyne Jebb’s award-winning biographer, Clare Mulley, blogs about the woman and the work that inspired her, in Save the Children’s centenary year…. 100 years and one day since Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton launched Save the Children at a packed ...
In 1919, an outspoken woman named Eglantyne Jebb founded Save the Children to help starving orphans in post-World War I Austria. When the Great Depression hit 13 years later, Save the Children came to the United States to support children in rural Appalachia.
Feb 7, 2024 · A pioneer in children’s rights, Eglantyne Jebb, founder of the NGO, Save the Children, and the original drafter of the Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child, was reburied in the Cimetière des rois (Cemetery of Kings) in Geneva, Switzerland.
