Save the Children Sweden has its headquarters in Sweden and runs ten regional offices around the world. The regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean is based in Lima, Peru, and operates through its partners, mainly non-governmental organizations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, México, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay and Venezuela.

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How do we work?

Save the Children Sweden bases its work on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Its regional programme focuses on making children's rights a reality by promoting the appropriate institutional, social and cultural settings within the society and the State.

Initiatives supported by Save the Children Sweden are characterized by their credibility, by the possibility to be replicated, by the principle of experience sharing and the participation of children. We seek to strengthen local capacities for long term sustainabilty on the implemmentation and monitoring of Children's Rights, therefore no welfare assistance projects are funded, nor is financial support given to individual children.

Save the Children Sweden cherishes the principle of respect for the social and cultural context of the countries where it works, and seeks to promote a gender perspective, non-discrimination principles and tolerance for diverse local and national values, always in view of the Best Interest of the Child.

Through its work and that of its partners Save the Children Sweden produces and disseminates knowledge as a tool to influence decision makers, seeks public commitment to social change and strives to achieve long term outcomes for children.