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A group of Boston neighbors are launching a new local chapter of Save the Children, an organization that has been doing whatever it takes to help give children in the United States and globally a healthy start for nearly one hundred years. Save the Children’s core mission is to fulfill the promise of education for children of war and conflict.
Save the Children’s Boston Leadership Council will welcome WCVB Channel 5’s Janet Wu, an Emmy Award winning political journalist and investigative reporter who is the co-host of WCVB’s On the Record, to the list of esteemed presentation participants.
Cokie Roberts, Senior Analyst for NPR and ABC News, Emmy Award winning journalist and author of six New York Times bestsellers will moderate a round table discussion on The Promise of Educating Refugee Children, featuring esteemed child advocates Mary Mendenhall, Associate Professor at Teachers College Columbia University and Dan Stoner, Vice President for Education and Child Protection, Save the Children.
Joining in via live stream, Save the Children field staff will bring real-time examples of successful strategies for helping children in need around the globe. Longtime supporter and founding member of the Boston Leadership Council Joe Ramrath of Needham will share his thoughts on the importance of local philanthropy.
The benefit, co-chaired by Roberta Moore of Dover, ML Krakauer of Wayland and Tasneem Ghogawala of Needham, will be held on Friday, November 2, at 6:30 p.m. at the Downtown Harvard Club of Boston, and will feature live music and delicious food from around the world. Proceeds will help support Save the Children’s Return to Learning initiative, an innovative program to ensure refugee children return to learning within 30 days of displacement.
For further information, visit www.savethechildren.org/Bostonbenefit.
