ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the goal of historicizing the role of child-centric organizations and, in doing so, explores their origins, what issues they are concerned with, and how they engage in their work. It argues humanitarian organizations are dependent on the gendered dichotomy of the masculine political versus the femininenon-political. It also discusses children born of wartime sexual violence fail to fit within the framework of existing programming agendas used by humanitarian organizations working with children. The role international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play in saving and assisting children worldwide is not new. Children have occupied a space within local and international organizations since the nineteenth century. In 2009 Save the Children Australia launched a visual advertising campaign to raise awareness and funds for disadvantaged children worldwide. The campaign featured a mixture of life-like models of children constructed from plaster and a series of publicly distributed postcards.
