Aina Erlander was a member of the board of Save the Children and in 1949 travelled to the then West Germany, which had suffered through World War II. In 1954 she visited the Netherlands, which had been flooded in 1953. In 1957 she became chairperson of "Unga Örnar" ('Young Eagles', a children's and youth rights organisation affiliated to the International Falcon Movement – Socialist Educational International), a position she retained for nine years. After the death of her husband in 1985 she organised and cleaned up the notes he had left behind.