Comparison of Action Aid and Save the Children Community Organisations in Australia

This report provides a comparison and contrast between two community organisations in Australia - Action Aid and Save the Children. It discusses their origins, major motives, presence, founders, and more. Both organisations are working towards different issues in society to bring equality and peace.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Tabular Comparison.....................................................................................................................3
Analysis of comparison................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Community organisation is any organisation which is engaged in charitable or other
community-based task under the law of Australia. It also states that these companies are not
established for making any profits (Parnell, Box and Pettigrew, 2020). This can also include the
organisations which are engaged in various advocacy or other activities that may not primarily be
charitable in nature. The following report consists of a comparison and contrast between two
community organisation in Australia. The first organisation is Save the children which are
working towards creation of a world where every child have a happy and safe childhood. The
second organisation chosen for this report is Action aid where women around the world are on
front lines and working towards various issues.
Tabular Comparison
Basis Action Aid Save the Children
Origin Based in Australia Based in Australia
Major motive Works for women rights Works to provide a better
childhood to children
Presence It works in 45 countries
throughout world including a
number of small communities
They have their presence in
more than 116 countries
throughout the world.
Founded in 1972 1919
Founded at Johannesburg, South Africa London, England (UK)
Headquarter Johannesburg, South Africa Melbourne, Australia.
Founders Cecil Jackson-Cole Eglanthyne Jebb, Dorothy
Buxton
Parent Organisation Action Aid International Save the Children
Analysis of comparison
Action aid was set up in 1972 by Cecil Jackson Cole to work with communities in order
to reduce poverty and promote human rights. The parent organisation of this community
organisation was action and international (Thomas, Duffy and Tilyard, 2020). It is headquartered

in Johannesburg, South Africa. Now they are successfully working with women all around the
world in order to make them aware of their rights and bring out campaigns so that they can fight
for their rights. The major aim of action aid is to work with movements of women around the
world in order to achieve three of its major agenda. These three agent of organisation are:
Economic justice for women, Action aid is successfully working in solidarity with women who
are living in poverty and exclusion so that they can get equitable redistribution of resources.
Woman’s right in emergencies, they are fighting for a world where women are resilient enough
to face increasing humanitarian crisis and also leading them towards preparedness. This refers to
response and recovery efforts in order to secure their rights in any kind of emergency. Climate
justice for women, they are resourcing woman in order to raise their voices for alternative
policies and systems which can successfully promote resilience and climate justice. This is also
working towards reducing the worst impacts of climate change.
They are successfully working across 45 countries throughout the world and representing a
global movement of women who was standing together in order to claim their human rights and
also campaign against various injustice done to them(Colvin, Lace and Witt, 2019). They are
successfully partnering with local women organisation who are exactly in information of what
changes are needed in their communities. They support these organisations and designed and
lead programmes which will help them in bringing the change. Along with empowering women
with various tools to campaign for safer city’s or building various women capacity to respond to
climate disasters they also have program to support women living in poverty or exclusion from
their communities.
In Australia they are successfully fundraising and campaigning in order to get women
the resources they need to lead the changes. The major changes are required for gender equality
and social justice for women(Saunders, Brown, Bedford and Naidoo, 2019). They are also
continuously mobilizing a community activist network, campaigning in order to hold Australian
government and corporations accountable for the impact on various rights of women who are
living in poverty throughout the world.
Save the Children was set up in 1919. It was founded in London, England. The
headquarters for the organisation in Australia is situated in Melbourne. The founders of save the
children were Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton (Ramsey-Kurz and Ratheiser, 2020). This is

an agency which is aiding and developing in order to help children in Australia and overseas.
When looking at Save the Children they have nearly 100 years’ experience in this field. They are
working towards saving lives of children during any strike of disaster and also creating lasting
change for children along with their families.
They majorly focus upon long-term health, education and child protection along with a
number of climate change projects. The organisation believes that children deserve a chance to
take on the world (Yanacopulos, 2019). It is necessary that every child throughout the world is
getting education, a healthy start to their life and also a chance to go further in order to achieve
every dream. They believe that children are heroes of their stories and they back them up
whenever possible. They are successfully working throughout 116 countries around the world.
Save the children Australia is managing and implementing various programmes that is
supporting children in various countries. They are directly delivering programmes in pacific
region and also supporting child and their family in their own community running more than 197
communities and locations throughout Australia.
There are a number of topics which is taken into consideration by them which include
importance of breastfeeding, to the heart wrenching stories of children who have fled conflict in
Syria. They are regularly producing various reports based work on work, child protection,
education and humanitarian crisis(Vaughan, 2019). Save the children Australia also focuses on
disaster strikes. They are always present for children and their families when any earthquake or
disaster is shattering community is.
They are also present when conflict forces a family to flee from their home in search of
safety due to various disasters such as cyclone. They are trying their best in order to reach
children with their life saving aid. When looking at cost distribution of save the children 73% of
their expenditure is for programme, 8% cost is invested in fundraising, 8% of cost is used for
administration where is 11% is spent in commercial activities (Ireland and Clausen, 2019).
Conclusion
With the help of above report it can be concluded that there are a number of different
community organisations present throughout the world who are working towards different issues.

The following report consist of two such organisations namely Save the children and action aid
Australia. Both of these organisations are based in Australia. The following report explains how
different organisations are working towards various issues in society in order to bring equality
and peace. Whether the organisation works for children, women, old age or specially abled all of
them aim at bringing equal human rights to every individual. The following report also
concludes how these organisations are working and various campaigns are carried out for
betterment of society.

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