Save the Children is a non-governmental organization. Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children. We work in around 120 countries. We save children's lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential.

We work to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Across all of our work, we pursue several core values: accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity and integrity.

Save the Children in Nicaragua

Nicaragua is one of the countries with the highest poverty levels in the region and less progress reducing extreme poverty  Poverty affects the majority of the Nicaraguan population. The 46.2% of the population, almost each of two people, live in poverty. The 72% of children live in poor households and 41.6% live in extreme poverty (FIDEG, 2007).

One in four children (27%) shows slow physical growth and size. On average, the population living in poverty has only 2.2 years of education, while the non-poor have 5.5 years. Nearly one in every two people living in extreme poverty can not read or write.

In Nicaragua Save the Children will work for 6 goals directly related to the fulfillment of child rights:

• Education. 
• Health, nutrition, HIV, healthy water. 
• Governance of children's rights. 
• Child Protection. 
• Disaster risk reduction. 
• Food security and livelihoods. 

Our vision is a world in which all children's rights are fulfilled