Child welfare organizations are non-profit humanitarian organizations, which use themselves for the promotion of children.

Child welfare organizations are world-wide actively, where they are needed, particularly in the poorer regions and their assistance cause the improvement of the life circumstances of the children, their health supply, their education and training, and the protection of the child rights.

Child welfare organizations finance their humanitarian work with donations, often in the form of sponsorships.

The world-wide largest child welfare organization is save The Children.

Some further large international child welfare organizations are UNICEF, Terre of the hommes, SOS Kinderdorf, plan international, World vision, child help in need and the papal child mission work "the Sternsinger").

Donation volume

Donation incomes of German child welfare organizations and third world-wide organizations in the year 2000:

• Herrmann Gmeiner fund (SOS Kinderdorf): 128,3 millions euro
• Child mission work: 97,0 millions euro
• Adveniat: 64,9 millions euro
• missio: 62,7 millions euro
• UNICEF: 62,6 millions euro
• Misereor: 61,7 millions euro
• Bread for the world: 61,2 millions euro
• Child help in need: 42,2 millions euro
• Flat international: 34,5 millions euro
• German world hunger assistance: 32,7 millions euro
• World vision: 22,3 millions euro
• Terre of the hommes: 11,8 million euro (international federation: ~60 millions euro)
• CCF child welfare organization: 6,7 millions euro
• German child welfare organization: 4,1 millions euro
• Child welfare organization global care: 1,3 millions euro
• National Help Program Albania child house Tirana 1.3 millions DM

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