Save the Children in Latin America and the Caribbean

Save the Children is the world’s first and leading independent children’s organization – transforming lives and the future we share. We work every day to guarantee children's rights to health, education, and protection against violence, to ensure that children have a better future.

We ensure that their needs are met and that their voices are heard. Every day and in times of crisis, we do whatever it takes to transform children’s lives. Every year, we reach tens of millions of children in more than 110 countries through our life-changing work.

Latin America and the Caribbean is experiencing a combination of protracted crises and growing humanitarian needs marked by extreme inequality, violence, forced displacement, food insecurity and low resilience to emergencies in the world's second most extreme weather-prone region.

Latin America and the Caribbean is the most unequal region in the world and is home to 5 of the 10 most violent countries. It is estimated that 34.4 million people will need humanitarian assistance in the region in 2025.

“Children are living in very complex situations of violence. In my context, extortion is limiting us, there are children, adolescents and families who are very afraid to leave their homes” , Anaí, Peru.

Sisters Jacinta, five, Petrona, seven, and Petrona Maribel, eight, with one of their sheep outside their home in Quiche district, Guatemala. Luisa Dörr / Save the Children

In Latin America and the Caribbean, we work in 10 countries to guarantee children's rights to health, education, and protection against violence, to ensure that every child has a better future.

Every day and in times of crisis, we do whatever it takes to transform children’s lives and the future we share. We ensure that their needs are met and that their voices are heard so they can grow up healthy, safe, and educated – playing, learning, and looking forward to a future filled with possibility and potential.

We empower children and adolescents and enhance child participation by educating them on their rights and guaranteeing that their voices are heard.

We are committed to building meaningful relationships with civil society groups, women-led and child-led local organizations, national and sub-national entities, amongst others.