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In all the work the Fund did, a major element in Jebb's thinking was the importance of a planned, research-based approach. In 1923, when the
Russian relief effort was coming to an end, and the Fund's income was sharply reducing, she turned to another issue, that of children's rights. Jebb headed to
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In London, Jebb was in charge, and she ensured that the Fund adopted the professional approach she had learnt in the
Charity Organisation Society. A manager, Lewis Golden, was recruited to put the organisation on a businesslike foundation. He adopted the innovative – and controversial – approach of
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Eglantyne spent her last ten years in Geneva. As the First World War was coming to an end and the German and Austro-Hungarian economies came near to collapse, it was clear to
Dorothy and Eglantyne that the children of these countries were suffering appallingly from the effects of the war and the
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With peace returning to Europe, and relief efforts in decline, the focus of the Save the
Children movement shifted to promoting the Declaration. In 1925, the first International Child Welfare congress was held in Geneva. The Declaration was widely discussed and supported by organisations and
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Geneva, to a meeting of the
International Save the Children Union, with a plan for a Children's Charter. She drafted a short and clear document which asserted the rights of children and the duty of the international community to put children's rights at the forefront of planning. The
209:, Massachusetts, United States, in 1929, teaching courses in English literature. A paternal aunt, a Victorian "new woman", introduced her and her siblings to carpentry, fishing and melting lead to cast bullets, and inspired her to go to University at a time when very few women did.
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on behalf of the
Macedonian Relief Fund. She returned shortly before the First World War broke out, and soon was drawn into a project organised by her sister Dorothy, who had begun importing European newspapers – including ones from Germany and
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and the surrounding areas, a consequence of the continuing conflict in the area. In 1921, just as this situation was coming under control, there was a new and bigger emergency, the
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taking full-page advertisements in national newspapers; it was highly effective, and raised very substantial amounts of income for the Fund's work.
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Jebb's focus shifted to organising relief. On 15 April 1919, the
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The success of the Fund led her and her sister
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for which a special license had to be obtained from the government – and publishing extracts in
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Rebel
Daughter of a Country House: the Life of Eglantyne Jebb, Founder of the Save the Children Fund
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The woman who saved the children : a biography of Eglantyne Jebb founder of Save the Children
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was adopted by the United Nations in 1959; it was one of the main inspirations behind the 1989 UN
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in London on 19 May 1919, quickly raised a large sum of money from the British public.
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was mounted above 82 Regent Street where the employment registry had been sited.
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in England and the following year as an international organisation based in
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Catalogue of Save the Children archives, Cadbury Research Library
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remains active today. A blue plaque was put up in Marlborough to
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British social reformer, founder of Save the Children (1876–1928)
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847:"Meet Our Founder: Eglantyne Jebb", Save the Children – Canada
884:"Eglantyne Webb Save the Children Founder Reburied in Geneva"
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Fund. Unexpectedly, this organisation, launched at the
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529:(a distant relative); it was corrected in 2019.
547:remembers her life and service annually with a
419:Jebb's grave at the Cimetière de Saint Georges.
383:Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 1923/24
1017:Christian female saints of the Late Modern era
309:. The crown prosecutor paid the fine himself.
736:"Jebb, Eglantyne (1876–1928), philanthropist"
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390:Declaration of the Rights of the Child
246:Cambridge, a Study in Social Questions
155:Declaration of the Rights of the Child
100:Declaration of the Rights of the Child
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817:Mulley, Clare (28 December 2014).
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688:. 25 October 2023. Archived from
648:"The Wellesley News (05-31-1928)"
665:"LMH, Oxford – Prominent Alumni"
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493:In 1919, Jebb and her sister
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859:"A Peace of Reconciliation"
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161:Early life and family
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618:. Oxford: Oneworld.
431:Jebb's grave at the
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646:Wellesley College,
553:liturgical calendar
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266:set up and ran the
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