From the outset of the war Emily Hobhouse, the daughter of an Anglican vicar had established links between British and German women to campaign against it. https://menwhosaidno.org/context/women/hobhouse_e.html. She continued to draw attention to the horrific consequences throughout the war, including the starvation of children in Germany. Her reports of civilian malnutrition and death within German - the direct result of British naval blockade, but not mentioned in homeland propaganda - were reaching the British press. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/spotlights/blockade.htm. They were read by two Shropshire sisters: Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton. Motivated by a shared Christian family sense of social justice, they became central to the Fight the Famine movement to bring this development on the European mainland to public attention. Even after the Armistice the effects of the blockade continued, so they extended their efforts to help, and subsequently they set up Save the Children http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/history-stories/eglantyne-jebb