Going Further and Faster when Disaster Strikes
Amazon is a critical disaster relief partner for Save the Children, leveraging its expansive global network of Disaster Relief Hubs to pre-position and deploy essential products – including diapers, hygiene kits and school supplies – within 72 hours to support children and their families facing global emergencies. Critical to this impact has been generosity and expertise of Amazon’s vast employee and consumer base, whose support ensures that children remain safe, healthy and can continue to learn.
Save the Children staff unloading bottled water to supply for those affected by Hurricane Otis. Save the Children delivered a Humanitarian Response in the Guerrero region supplying food, water, hygiene and wellbeing kits. Miguel Vera/ Save the Children
Making Learning Accessible
Amazon supports a variety of Save the Children educational programmes aimed at providing access to digital skills, literacy, and psychosocial support. This includes a collaboration between the company’s philanthropic stem education program, Amazon Future Engineer, and Save the Children’s MakerLabs in Germany. In the US, Amazon Publishing is a supporter of Save the Children’s “Make Summer Fair” campaign where donations of hundreds of thousands of books and school supplies provide continuity of learning in the summer months.
Save the Children and Amazon partnered together to bring books and backpacks to children living in rural Tennessee. Shawn Millsaps / Save the Children
Going the Last Mile, improving logistics and supply chain
Save the Children works in some of the most remote and hardest-to-reach areas around the globe. As an industry leader in logistics and last mile delivery, Amazon helps us solve operational challenges by providing logistics and supply chain support as well as warehousing capacity that ensures we can get the right support to the right place at the right time. We are also proud to have partnered with Amazon Logistics for Good to launch a suite of supply chain e-learning resources, available to the broader sector, on DisasterReady.org.
Save the Children staff preparing to distribute essential items from Amazon to help support children and families affected by Hurricane Ida in Louisiana. Aren Koenig / Save the Children
Building Transformational Tech-Enabled Solutions
Save the Children’s partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) is anchored around our enterprise digital transformation, including the creation of a data lake and impact hub that will provide insights across our theory of change. In addition to being an AWS Imagine Grant winner, Save the Children has built a variety of tech-enabled solutions in the US, Spain, and Australia to support humanitarian response, social mobility, and literacy for children around the world.
Anna*'s education was disrupted when the war in Ukraine escalated. Now, Anna attends school online, using a smartphone with a broken screen to view lessons. Oleksandr Khomenko / Save the Children
