Since 2016 Babel has been supporting Save the Children, the British NGO whose mission is to improve living conditions for underprivileged children. This initiative has opened the door for us to provide help in many different ways for children forced to subsist under unimaginable conditions, including actions such as:
- Refurbishing a reading room in a primary school in Mexico City to encourage children from deprived backgrounds to enjoy the world of literature in a safe and comfortable setting.
- Providing regular financing for staffing at a play centre in Acapulco to provide young boys and girls with a safe environment to play and interact in after school hours.
- Providing translations free of charge of documents such as the STC annual report; earthquake response strategies; nutrition, sanitation and hygiene campaigns, and first-hand testimonies of migrant children forced to leave their countries of origin in Latin America because of violence and/or extreme poverty to seek a better life elsewhere.
- Coaching and workshops on attentional skills for staff members at different Save The Children locations in Mexico City.
- Holding raffles and collecting foodstuffs for victims of the October 2017 earthquakes in the state of Oaxaca, coordinating directly with the local population to ensure the money raised and vital supplies purchased by our members of staff went directly to the affected communities.
- Refurbishing reading rooms in three different primary schools in the Yucatan Peninsula to enable children to enjoy the world of literature in a safe and comfortable setting.
- In February 2021 we accompanied Save the Children distributing personal hygiene packages in communities in Tabasco hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and then by flooding.