Eglantyne Jebb

(1876 - 1928)

Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton founded the Save the Children Fund in England in 1919 to help German and Austro-Hungarian children who were starving as a result of the still-in-force Allied blockade. That same year, at the Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations was created. The international body adopted Jebb’s five points in 1924, and they served as the basis for the UN’s Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959.