
Inputs by Save the Children South Africa to the State of the Nation Address

Desmond Tutu, Shakira, Ben Affleck, Aamir Khan, Bono, Mary Robinson and five Nobel Peace Prize winners have added their names to an open letter to World Leaders to mark the launch of action/2015.

On 12 January 2010 Haiti was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that affected an estimated three million people.

Three years ago the seed for running the 2350km along the Freedom Trail in South Africa was planted and since then the plotting and planning has grown into what you know today as the Freedom Runners.




Save the Children South Africa is outraged by the shameful and senseless killing of four year old Taegrin Morris in Reiger Park in a botched hijacking at the weekend.

Yesterday, mothers, fathers, midwives and community members gathered in Soweto to show their commitment to saving women’s and babies’ lives.