Unilever, one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, will be our main corporate partner on our EVERY ONE campaign over the next three years it was announced today during the launch of The Unilever Foundation, at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The partnership will save and improve the lives of children around the world
Thursday 26 January 2012
Our global EVERY ONE campaign's ambitious aim is to ensure the world keeps to the promise made through Millennium Development Goal 4 to reduce the child mortality by two thirds by 2015.
The Anglo-Dutch firm has set up the Unilever Foundation, to help achieve its goal of helping more than 1 billion people improve their health and well-being by 2020.
One child dies every four seconds. Most of these deaths can be prevented. We know what is needed to prevent them and this ground breaking partnership which will train more health workers and improve access to life-saving vaccines, ensuring more children and mothers are reached with high impact health and nutrition programmes.
"This partnership will help us to deliver transformational change to millions of children's lives around the world through our EVERY ONE campaign.
Giving children to fufill their potential
"Each year 7.6 million children die needlessly of preventable illnesses. The support from Unilever will bring us a step closer to ensuring that a health worker is within reach of every child, life-saving vaccines are available for all, and children have enough food to grow up healthy.
Combining our global reach and joint ambition, we can give children the chance to fulfill their potential."