The Global Action for Children Campaign believes that community-based programs are the best way to provide children with access to healthcare, education, food and nutrition and life-saving medicines. Here are some examples of how community programs are successfully working to meet the needs of vulnerable children around the world. Dropping School Fees in Kenya An extraordinary thing happened in Kenya when school …
132 million children in the developing world have lost one or both parents. 25 million children will be orphaned by HIV/AIDS alone by the year 2010.[1] One billion children are currently living in poverty, over 9 million children are dying annually of preventable diseases and malnutrition and 77 million children are out of school, 44 …
Juliette Luesée is a 21-month old girl from Poussière, a rural village in the county of Jeremie, southwest Haiti. She has pneumonia. It is her third bout of the illness since she was born. This time, Juliette is being treated at one of 60 USAID-supported mobile medical clinics that make monthly visits to villages near …
In 2000, the United States and 188 other nations pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of cutting poverty and hunger in half and ensuring children everywhere can grow up healthy and go to school by 2015. The U.S. and the entire international community have made enormous progress. Already, 88 percent of children in the developing world …
