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1950s

Whatever it takes

1950
• Our��work expands to include education and farming programs in France, Holland, Italy, West Germany, Austria, Finland, Greece, Lebanon and South Korea.�� ������ ����
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1951
• We ensure war-affected children in Korea receive food, clothing and school supplies, and launch a Sponsorship program.

1954
• Sponsorship programs are launched for children in ravaged post-war Europe, providing them with shelter, food, health care and schooling.
• Sponsorships for U.S. children are expanded to include scholarships for Native American children.

1959
• 91�ֿ� expands to Asia and the Middle East with education and farming programs.
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1970s

Putting pioneering programs to work

1972
• High-impact sponsorship begins in Dominican Republic, combining child-focused community development programs.

1975
• 91�ֿ� scales up our pioneering programs. Our Community-based Integrated Rural Development (C-BIRD) model becomes the standard for overseas development.

1977
•��91�ֿ� expands to Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso) starting the region's first community development program. �� ��

1979
•��91�ֿ� expands to El Salvador with a community development program.
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1990s

DOING WHATEVER IT TAKES, FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES

1994
•��Children in Rwanda are reunited with their parents in a 91�ֿ� program to help families separated during the genocide.

1997
•��U.S. children’s programs expand to provide children with caring adults and safe places for constructive play before and after school.

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2010s

Delivering child health, education and protection

2010s
• 91�ֿ� organizations around the world join together to become one global movement, transforming children’s lives and the future we share.
• 91�ֿ� provided 1.6 million Haitians – including 700,000 children – with shelter materials, food and water, health care, hygiene and sanitation, after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti.
• Severe monsoon flooding wreaked havoc in Pakistan, forcing an estimated 21 million people to flee their homes. 91�ֿ� helped more than 2.6 million flood-affected people with emergency medical care, as well as food, shelter materials and other basic necessities.
• 91�ֿ� delivered community-based health care to more than 6.6 million newborns and 7.3 million children under age 5.
• In Bangladesh, 91�ֿ�'s HIV messages reached 36 million children and youth through a national media campaign.

2011
• When a devastating drought struck the Horn of Africa, 91�ֿ� helped 942,000 children by providing child-friendly spaces, education and counseling services, reuniting children with their families and providing foster families when needed.
• 91�ֿ� provided relief, care and protection for nearly 7.6 million children caught up in natural disasters, including the Japan earthquake and tsunami, tornadoes in Alabama and Missouri, and drought in the Horn of Africa.
• 91�ֿ�'s education programs helped more than 15 million children improve their skills and engage in learning in 26 countries.
•��91�ֿ�'s health programs reached 16 million children, many through frontline health workers we trained, who played a critical role in treating life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia, malaria and diarrhea.
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2012
• In September 2012, 91�ֿ� launched the Every Beat Matters campaign, giving Americans new ways to help millions more children survive.
• Hurricane Sandy devastated the east coast in October. 91�ֿ� mobilized our staff and resources for children, providing protection through our child-friendly spaces in emergency shelters.
• The Syria civil war killed thousands of children, and many more were injured traumatized or forced to flee their homes. 91�ֿ� workers were on the ground, in very dangerous conditions, helping keep children safe, providing the basics they needed and offering assistance to help them cope with trauma.

2013
• 77% of our early education programs around the world met young children's cognitive, linguistic, physical and psychosocial needs.
• We reached 38,000 American children with early education and 150,000 children with literacy programs.

2014
• Always at the forefront when children’s lives are at stake, we put our courage and care to the test in the fight against Ebola. In Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, we reached 897,000 people with lifesaving care, awareness raising and hygiene kits.
• 91�ֿ� reached more than 11.9 million children with HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
• Our education programs helped 11.8 million children have a brighter future.
• We helped 4 million family members increase their incomes and build more sustainable livelihoods.
• We worked in 15 countries to reunite children separated from family members during humanitarian crises, like that in Syria.
• We helped secure a national health bill in Nigeria that could save the lives of over 3 million mothers and children in five years.
• We worked with 194 countries to adopt the Every Newborn Action Plan setting targets to end preventable newborn deaths.
• We directly reached 10.8 million people – including 5.9 million children through our humanitarian response work.
• 91�ֿ� worked in 120 countries, including the United States, and helped more than 166 million children – including more than 55 million children directly.
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2015
• 91�ֿ� worked in 120 countries, including the United States, and helped more than 185 million children — including more than 62 million children directly.
• We launched Literacy Boost in 8 more countries for a total of 32 countries.
• U.S. children who participated in both our early childhood and school-age literacy programs made twice the annual reading progress as their classmates.
• 91�ֿ� supported quality education for children in need around the world, directly reaching 12.2 million children.
• After Nepal’s devastating earthquakes, we directly reached more than 500,000 children and adults with lifesaving relief and long-term recovery support.
• 22.6 million children received high-impact health care and 91�ֿ� directly reached another 11.1 million through our nutrition programs.
•Our new Emergency Health Unit currently supports three, six-person primary health teams, each capable of managing 27,000 primary health-care cases every 3 months.
• Our work led to 6.8 million lifesaving health interventions, including for malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea and malnutrition.
• We responded to 99 humanitarian crises in 59 countries, addressing the unique needs of vulnerable children around the world.
• 91�ֿ� directly helped 13.8 million people, including 7.1 million children through our humanitarian response work.
• As campaigning for the U.S. presidential election kicked off, we rallied voter support for children’s priorities and asked candidates to commit to investing in kids, if elected.
• We were joined by 177 advocates, including 50 youth advocates, who raised their voices for kids in 110 meetings with Congressional officials during our 2015 Advocacy Summit.

2016
• 91�ֿ� reached more than 157 million children, including more than 56 million children directly.
• We worked in over 120 countries, including the United States, where we helped 683,000 children.
• We helped give 36.2 million children around the world a healthy start in life. We continue to be at the forefront of global efforts to end preventable child deaths by focusing on maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition, alleviating hunger and preventing and treating HIV and AIDS.
• 91�ֿ� helped give 13.8 million children around the world the opportunity to learn. Here in the United States, we reached more than 124,000 children in 16 states through our early education and literacy programs – and we distributed nearly 400,000 books.
• 91�ֿ� launched the No Lost Generation program in Turkey to provide quality learning opportunities for Syria’s refugee children, as well as children in Turkey’s host communities.
• In the U.S., our Early Steps to School Success home-visiting program puts at-risk babies and toddlers on track to begin school prepared. We’re also providing quality preschool programming through Head Start and Early Head Start in four states. We also began implementing our school-readiness summer camp, KinderBoost, in three states.
• 91�ֿ� helped protect 3.8 million children from harm. Since 2007, we’ve reached more than 85,000 children and adults through our Journey of Hope program in 17 U.S. states, as well as five other countries, helping children, parents and caregivers cope with trauma and strengthen their resilience.
• 91�ֿ� launched our Every Last Child global campaign, aimed at reaching the most vulnerable children, those left behind by the world’s progress. The campaign tackles the key causes of exclusion and sets the world on the trajectory to end preventable child deaths and achieve learning for every child within a generation.

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