15 April 1919: The Save the Children Fund was founded—British sisters Miss Eglantyne Jebb & Mrs. Dorothy Buxton separated their efforts from the lobbying-focused Fight the Famine Council to "provide relief to children suffering the effects of war," specifically malnutrition, even starvation in defeated Germany & Austria, devising innovative fund-raising techniques like individual sponsorships.
Lest we forget.
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