Save the Children

Your generous support of Save the Children is an investment in childhood. With you as our partner, we develop and expand proven, evidence-based programs that give girls and boys a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We’re there for children in emergencies, providing child-focused readiness, relief and recovery. And we advocate to ensure issues critical to our children are given top priority. Together, we give children in the United States and around the world the best chance for success, every day and in times of crisis, transforming their lives and the future we all share. Thank you!

Here is an example of our work this year:

Bringing health care home...that’s how Save the Children saves the lives of children through our signature Community Case Management (CCM) program. Most diseases that kill children under age 5 can be easily treated – if only children had access to health services.

In rural areas far from clinics or hospitals, we train and equip community health volunteers to diagnose illnesses and deliver lifesaving, low-cost treatment to children who otherwise might die from common illnesses such as diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria. Volunteers are also trained to refer complicated cases to a health center or hospital.

Save the Children introduced CCM in Nicaragua in 2006 and, today, we reach children in more than 15 countries through this approach. Death rates due to pneumonia, diarrhea and dysentery have dropped by over 50 percent in our project areas in Nicaragua. As a result, the government has adopted CCM as a national policy for communities at least two hours from a health facility.

Links:

• Save the Children