Save the Children’s No Child Born to Die campaign is trying to raise awareness and tackle the toll of preventable child deaths. We believe that the improvement of health systems and increased vaccination coverage are vitally important measures for decreasing child mortality. However education, particularly maternal education, is also hugely important.
We can get the movement started, but it’s up to citizens to sustain the momentum around the change. It’s people with a clear point of view, which is rational and emotional and ethical, who can easily make their way through obstacles to forge a better future.
Millions of girls continue to experience disadvantage and discrimination that prevents and interrupts not only their right to education, but many of their other fundamental rights.
With committed leadership, and, importantly, with effective donor support, even the poorest countries can make big reductions in infant and maternal mortality. It was really inspiring to chat recently with the Professor David Mphande, Minister of Health of Malawi. Malawi is one of the pioneer countries devoting 15% of its budget to health, and is determined to train, hire, and properly support more and more healthworkers so that the needs of the country’s children can be met. Because of this, Malawi will meet the MDGs for maternal and child survival. Here’s the video of my conversation with the Minister.
Save the Children India hosted a visit for Justin Forsyth, Save the Children UK CEO and Natasha Kaplinsky, a popular face on British television and a mother of two year old and seven month baby.
While in Delhi recently seeing family, I was able to visit Save the Children’s mobile health clinic, and was very fortunate to be able to bring my wife and children with me. My wife is from India, and our children were born there, so it’s a country that holds a very special place in my heart. Here’s a short, personal, flip video of our visit. I hope you enjoy it.
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Today has been our first full day visiting our programme work in India. It’s been an inspiring and challenging experience. Although we’re seasoned travellers across Europe and parts of Asia, this is the first time any of us have been to India…so the learning curve has been steep to say the least!
Here are my top ten heroes from a week of excitement, nervous tension and cautious (OK, very cautious) celebration at the outcome of the UN Summit. Cue the music. Here goes…
A new survey published this week tells us that eight out of ten among the middle-class in cities across India underestimate the levels of child mortality. But does it actually matter what the middle classes think?
