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Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. 29 national organisations are working together to deliver programmes in more than 120 countries around the world. Save the Children’s vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Save the Children’s mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
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IKEA has worked with Save the Children for over a decade. Save the Children was instrumental in the development of IKEA’s policy against child labour, ‘The IKEA Way on Preventing Child Labour Code of Conduct’ launched in 2000.
The policy is based on national law, relevant ILO conventions, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and the IKEA code clearly states that all actions must always be in the best interests of the child.
Since 2005, we have funded a multitude of Save the Children educational efforts across Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa through the annual soft toys campaign where the IKEA Foundation donates one euro for each soft toy sold in an IKEA store during the holiday season. Since 2009, we have also worked together to address the root causes of child labour in the cotton seed and cotton production in India and Pakistan. In May 2012, we gave Save the Children an additional grant to expand projects fighting child labour in India.
Our partnership with Save the Children in India and Pakistan has a great impact on preventing child labour in the cotton fields, thereby giving the children a better start in life. It is about advocating for children’s rights so that they can start school – and finish school. That’s why it’s so vital for both parents and children to understand the importance of proper education. Save the Children also assist teachers in learning how to use more child-friendly education methods.
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Children get education thanks to IKEA soft toys campaign
