A man gives vitamins to
children affected by the floods
in Mopeia, Mozambique.
SAVE THE CHILDREN PROGRAMMES
Save the Children is working around the world to improve healthcare for children and their families. Through the EVERY ONE campaign we are increasing these health and nutrition programmes to reach more people – and ensure that no child under the age of 5 dies from preventable causes.
INDIA
Save the Children is
educating pregnant
women in India like
Radha Yadav during
and after pregnancy.
2 million children in India die every year from easily preventable diseases. A child dies in India every 15 seconds. We're working with poor children and communities in Rajasthan and West Bengal to help them access good quality healthcare and treatment for malnutrition. When parents are better able to recognise and seek early treatment for the major childhood illnesses, children are much less likely to die.
Report from India
In May,Save the Children New Zealand's CEO Liz Gibbs, visited India. Liz met with community leaders and health workers and learned more about their experiences of helping mothers and families in local communities.
‘I gained a close insight into how the EVERY ONE campaign is helping young children and mothers in India,’ says Liz. ‘It was fantastic to hear Dr Abhay Bang. He works in partnership with Save the Children training community health workers to deliver simple and effective healthcare solutions within their own communities. I was also very privileged to attend the launch of a new EVERY ONE mobile clinic in a slum community outside Delhi, central India. This mobile clinic will help mothers and young children to access healthcare that could literally save their lives.
‘I was also lucky to travel to visit some community health workers in Rajasthan. They face challenges everyday but are passionate about helping children and their families. Their work involves helping women influence families in communities take on board good health and hygiene messages that are saving lives every day. The EVERY ONE mobile health clinic is able to work in the heart of communities that need health care the most and it's already making a huge difference to improving children’s lives. It's tremendously rewarding to see tangible results of the EVERY ONE fund raising initiatives on a worldwide scale. While EVERY ONE is at the early stages in New Zealand, the results we can achieve by working as one whole organisation are clearly achievable, visible and lasting – and that’s what our work is all about,’ says Liz.
HAITI
Save the Children has
more than 800 health
workers on the ground
throughout Haiti and
health education is being
delivered through mobile
health clinics.
In Haiti, Save the Children has been delivering lifesaving aid since the earthquake hit in January, providing healthcare to more than 120,000 people and helping more than 200,000 get access to clean water and live in more sanitary conditions, by building latrines and installing clean water points. Now, Save the Children is responding to the outbreak of cholera by scaling up operations to treat cases of diarrhoea and prevent the spread of disease.
Thousands of children are at risk in Haiti. Across the world, around 22,000 children needlessly die every day. EVERY ONE can do something to help save the life of a child. We need to act now. Join our campaign at www.everyone.org and join us to call on world leaders to focus on children.
CHINA
Save the Children is
working in Mojiang,
China to help mothers
like Zhang Zemei,
28, and her 16 month
old daughter's, Bai Sisi.
In 2007 382,000 children under the age of 5 died in China. We're working in Yunnan, Anhui, Xinjing and Beijing to improve the health of mothers and children – training health workers to run workshops and provide care. We’re also supporting local communities to provide toilets and safe water.
BANGLADESH
Nishi with her
new born baby girl
at a Save the
Children health care
clinic in Bangladesh.
Malnutrition is an underlying cause of the deaths of two-thirds of children under five. We're ensuring the poorest 10% of children have access to healthcare, proper sanitation and safe water and we’ve enabled nearly 11,000 children to get an adequate diet. The latest statistics show that Bangladesh has improved its child mortality rates by an impressive 51%, reducing the numbers of deaths from 149 per 1,000 in 1990 to 73 in 2005.
AFGHANISTAN
Fourzon, 19, is
a newly trained
midwife standing in
Miserabad village,
Afghanistan.
1 in 4 children in Afghanistan will die before they reach their fifth birthday. We're training health staff from hospitals and clinics in child health and nutrition screening, as well as follow-up systems to ensure that children at risk are referred for appropriate help. And we’re reaching more than 15,000 women in rural areas with advice on the best child feeding practices for newborn babies and children under five.
ETHIOPIA
Save the Children
has set up clinics
throughout Southern
Ethiopia to help
children like Alamonash.
1 in 10 children die in Ethiopia before their fifth birthday. Children often don't get vaccinated against diseases because they can't access or afford healthcare. Malaria, which can be prevented and is treatable with medicines, is the biggest killer. In many rural areas there are no health clinics or services. We're helping more than people from the poorest households in Amhara region get free healthcare through our fee waiver initiative. We've built and equipped two health centres in remote areas, bringing services and medicines to 25,000 people. We are aiming to help 3.3 million women and children.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Bizimana, 3, at
a Save the Children
feeding centre in
Burungu, Kichanga,
DRC.
1 in 5 Congolese children dies before reaching their fifth birthday, often from preventable illnesses such as malaria and from malnutrition. We are working in two areas of North Kivu to provide people with basic primary healthcare services, such as child immunisation, family planning, nutritional support and HIV and AIDS prevention. We have helped 27 health centres get up and running, and supplied 15 of them with new equipment and medicine, reaching a total population of more than 280,000.
