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New Media Journalists Travel to India, Report on Child Survival
Caption: Women and Children’s Hospital in Mumbai, India: A child is pictured at Cama Hospital, a major hospital for women and children, in Mumbai, India. Photo: United Nations The International Reporting Project (IRP) has sent ten new media journalists to India to report on child survival. You may recall, the Indian Ministry of Health along with UNICEF…
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Day 2 Social Media Highlights from India’s Child Survival Summit #C2AIndia
If you missed our piece about Day 1 of India’s Child Survival Summit on the Gates Foundation blog, Impatient Optimists, you can read it at The Most Important Conversation This Week: India on the Survival of its Children. You might recall our coverage of the Child Survival Summit that was held in Washington, DC last…
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Bill Gates On the Importance of Measurement in Global Health #BillsLetter
Every year Bill Gates, the Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, writes an annual letter laying out his vision for the future of global health and poverty eradication. This year’s letter, which can be read at billsletter.com, espouses the critical importance of measurement in saving more lives. In fact, Gates uses measurement in…
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World Polio Day
Today is World Polio Day. World Polio Day was started by Rotary International and is an annual day on October 24 where the world comes together to stress the importance of global polio eradication. The good news is polio is nearing complete eradication with only three countries where the paralysing disease is still endemic –…
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Gifting Education to Children in Need
Our partner Pratham is celebrating International Literacy Day (September 8) through an awareness campaign called I Believe. Pratham works with communities, parents, and governments to provide educational programs, create educational standards, and advocate for educational reform in India. In India 100 million children cannot read at age level. There is a lot you can do to spread…
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New Partner Update: Pratham USA
One of the issues we take seriously here at Mom Bloggers for Social Good is literacy and education. The more children have access to education and books, the better for our future world! That’s why we are proud to partner with Pratham USA. From our new partner, Pratham USA: Though 96.5% of children in India…
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Where Child Survival Gets Top Billing
Today I am attending the Child Survival Call to Action Summit at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. I am attending as media as a part of the ONE Moms Advisory Board. If you would like to join a group of mothers who work specifically to eradicate global poverty be sure to join us at www.one.org/moms. Some…
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Path’s Sure Start Program Ensures the Reduction of Maternal Mortality
Sita Shankar Wunnava, the Director of Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition at PATH India, knows about maternal health and women in India. An outspoken leader and NGO director Wunnava has over two decades of international global health experience under her belt and knows that behavioral change in India’s rural areas is what will ultimately save more…
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Our First Knowledge Partner: IDEAS From the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
I am excited to announce our very first knowledge partner, IDEAS, a program launched in the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Over the course of our partnership we will share a great deal from IDEAS’ research in Ethiopia, India, and Nigera about maternal and newborn health. IDEAS (Informed Decisions for Actions) aims to…
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Census: In India More Have Cellphones Than Toilets
India’s latest census data was released last week and the findings are startling. India’s population grew by 181 million people over the last decade reaching 1.2 billion people and according to NPR India’s population is likely to surpass China’s by 2030. What is even more startling in India’s new census is that 53% of all…