What We Do

Because nearly 11 million children die each year from entirely treatable or preventable illnesses

Groups of dedicated students across the country form SCCS chapters on their campuses to raise awareness in their communities about the crisis of child mortality and take action. The student-run National Coordinating Committee provides an advocacy platform and organizing tools to unit chapters across the country in a common campaign for child survival.

What do chapters do?

Advocate for legislative action on children’s issues.

Educate themselves and others about global health challenges.

Fundraise to directly support child survival programs in developing countries.

Advocacy (link to advocacy front page) takes the form of meetings with members of Congress, media outreach and letters, faxes or phone calls to legislators’ offices. Education and Fundraising are accomplished through GlobaLocals (link to GlobaLocal page), which raise awareness at home while raising funds to send abroad.

Because students are the ideal agents to build grassroots movements for global justice, the Student Campaign for Child Survival is a student movement.

"Speaking from my vantage point as a student in the 1960's, a time of defining social change in the United States, we possessed plenty of energy and ideas, but lacked the tools to organize and implement a focused, results-oriented effort like the Student Campaign for Child Survival. You clearly understand these issues, and have incorporated the same tools that we at InterAction have incorporated in our advocacy efforts. I think of you as our colleagues and full partners."

-Mary McClymont, President of InterAction

Students have shown that they have a unique capacity to reach across false boundaries of nationality, race and economic status to affirm our common humanity. In the past fifty years, students have played monumental roles in social movements from the civil right’s movement to shutting down foreign sweatshops. Thanks to the internet, our generation of students is more connected with the rest of the world than those before us. Our generation more than any other is in a position to make a real difference on issues affecting our world.

By uniting the creative energy and organizing capacity of students with the knowledge and expertise of academia and professionals, Global Justice will empower students to promote a more enlightened, engaged American foreign policy. History demonstrates just how powerful students can be in the struggle for social justice. Please join us (link to subscribe page of website) in continuing this tradition. Take action to support child survival.