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Prize Provides $250K to Fund Programs That Save Children’s Lives
Across the world, over 17,000 children under age five continue to die every day, mostly from preventable causes and treatable diseases. This translates to approximately 12 children every minute and over 6.3 million total in 2013. More than half of these child deaths can be attributed to malnutrition (approximately 45% of all child deaths), pneumonia,…
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Can Forests Help Fight Global Hunger?
Currently 805 million people are undernourished worldwide. That number is based on a number of factors including chronic and systemic poverty, a lack of access to improved growing methods and resources for small-holder farmers, a lack of purchasing power, as well as a lack of highly nutritious foods. Researchers believe forests can help remedy the…
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Expert Panel Draws Up International Code in Response to Reported Peacekeeper Sexual Abuse
An international expert panel of leaders convened today in New York City to launch the Code Blue campaign demanding an end to sexual abuses by UN peacekeeping forces and the automatic immunity they are afforded when abuses occur. In recent weeks a scathing, formerly classified, report: Sexual Abuse on Children by International Armed Forces, was leaked…
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Community of Volunteers Creates 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hands for Children
At last month’s IntraHealth International SwitchPoint conference I had the opportunity to put together a 3D-printed hand with e-Nable, a global community collaborating to make free 3d-printed prosthetic hands available to all who need them. The hand wasn’t easy to put together and I got nowhere close to finishing, but I learned that through a little ingenuity…
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Newborn and Child Health Education Through Haitian Art
Inside the child malnutrition unit at Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, the largest regional hospital in Haiti’s Artibonite region, colorful murals have been painted over the beds. They were specifically designed to teach parents, especially mothers, how to keep their newborns and children healthy and well-fed. In Haiti one in five children suffers from chronic malnutrition and…
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Infographic: 2015 Mothers’ Index Rankings
As in years past, the Nordic countries lead the world in being the best countries to be a mother and to raise children. Save the Children’s Mothers’ Index ranked countries based on maternal health, children’s well-being, educational status, and economic and political status. Sub-Saharan African countries and Haiti rounded out the worst places to be…
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The Priceless Reaction of a Baby Being Vaccinated #Haiti
As I watched baby after baby receive the pentavalent (5-in-1) vaccine at a mobile health post put on by Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) in Haiti this week, their reactions were all the same. First, they were oblivious to what was going on. Then, they all felt a momentary prick of pain and the waterworks began.…
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Health Agent Junior Exantus on Why He Became a Health Worker
Junior Exantus is a health agent for Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti. He has been a health agent for three years. “I wanted to enter the field to help the community,” said Exantus through translation. “I saw a lot of illnesses in the community.”
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Reporting From Haiti This Week
This week I am traveling around Haiti reporting on global health issues that affect women and children. In fact, I am writing this post in the back of a SUV with my fixer and translator headed south of Port-au-Prince to visit Social Good Moms’ partner, Midwives for Haiti. In the poorest country in the Western…
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Photo Essay: Vaccines in Deschappelles, Haiti
Yesterday I was in Deschappelles, Haiti about three hours north of Port-au-Prince. Deschappelles is where the largest regional hospital, Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, is and has been for nearly 60 years. It serves a population of 350,000 and routinely takes in patients from outside of the region. In addition to hospital services Hôpital Albert Schweitzer also arranges and…
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Justin Forsyth, Save the Children CEO, on Child Migrant Deaths in the Mediterranean
“Whoever makes up the next Government has a moral obligation to work with the EU to restart the rescue. Every migrant child’s death is a stain on Europe’s conscience. How many thousands must die this summer before Europe acts?” – Justin Forsyth, Save the Children CEO. Read more at Save the Children Calls on the EU to…
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Save the Children calls on the EU to Halt Child Deaths in the Mediterranean
On Sunday, the harrowing news reverberated around the world that hundreds of migrants drowned off the coast of Libya en route to Europe when their boat – not suitable for transport across the vast Mediterranean – capsized. As many as 700 people are feared dead, but the death toll could escalate as more information is…
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Researchers Say Donor Funding Will Make Malaria Drugs More Affordable
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest burden of malaria sickness and death. In fact, 90 percent of all malaria deaths occur in Africa according to the World Health Organization. Children under the age of five are particularly susceptible of dying from malaria and adults can be completely debilitated by the infectious disease as it zaps their energy…
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UNESCO Report Shows Sobering Global Education Progress
Fifteen years ago an educational framework was set in Dakar, Senegal at the World Education Forum that established goals to achieve “Education for All” by 2015. Since then, the number of children who are now out of school has fallen by half, but there are still 58 million children out of school globally and around…
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Kicking Off World Health Worker Week Through Photos and Stories #WHWWeek
To kick off World Health Worker Week (April 5 – 11) we are sharing photos and stories of some of the health workers we’ve met around the world over the years who work tirelessly to keep women, children, and families healthy and most importantly alive. In the sub-Saharan and Asian countries where we have met these health workers,…
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Botswana Receives First White Space Telemedicine Service to Reach Rural Populations
One of the beautiful aspects of Africa is its beautiful, wide expanses. All over the continent you will be awed by how far-reaching your eyes can see especially when traveling through its spectacular countryside. But as much as it is beautiful, the size of Africa also poses a significant problem because without modern infrastructure, including the Internet, and transport…
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Upcoming Events Discuss Ebola in Liberia, Raise Money for Children in Crisis
This week we will collaborate with Save the Children and Children Inspire Design on two important awareness raising and fundraising events. #EndEbola Twitter Chat Join us this Wednesday when we join Save the Children and their Liberia Country Director, Greg Duly. We will discuss the state of the Ebola crisis in Liberia and how it…
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Help Children in Crisis With a Simple Social Share #Relay4Kids
As hard as it may sound, children are living in crisis as I write this post and it honestly breaks my heart. There are Syrian children who are living under harsh conditions in refugee camps who just want to go home to a world they once knew and there are also children who are running…
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A Preventable Polio Story
By Banke Sorinwa, a Nigerian mother and worker in financial services in Lagos. It was our first day back to boarding school after the summer break. Some students shared hugs and narrated tales of the long holiday, while others were teary eyed because we were once again stuck in the four walls of school. It was…
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International Women’s Day Puts Spotlight on Global Poverty, Gender Inequalities
International Women’s Day Twitter Chat We will join Global Impact to discuss these aforementioned women’s and girls’ issues on Friday, March 13 at 1 PM EST. Join us using #HerDay2015. In Ormoc, Philippines women tend to take on village leadership roles to ensure children under five get their scheduled vaccinations and routine check-ups. These women also…