by Editor | May 17, 2013 | Charity Spotlight
For a baby with tetanus, any movement – even a smile – can trigger repeated, excruciating convulsions. Typically contracted when babies are delivered in unsanitary conditions, tetanus is a cruel, painful disease that kills 160 newborns every day. It strikes in poor...
by Editor | Dec 10, 2012 | Holiday
This has been a rough year for the tens of thousands of children who are suffering from the ravages of war, floods and other natural disasters. The most important thing many of these children STILL need is access to clean, disease-free water. And you can help them get...
by Editor | Oct 29, 2012 | Charity Spotlight
Following in the footsteps of generations of children before them, thousands of kids will go door-to-door this Halloween to Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF – helping raise millions of dollars for children in need. The latest news on child mortality couldn’t have...
by Editor | Jul 9, 2012 | Charity Spotlight
ZERO by 2035 The Child Survival Call to Action forum in Washington, D.C. was an incredible moment. A remarkable coalition of governments, the private sector, and UNICEF came together and committed to ending preventable childhood deaths by 2035. Representatives from...
by Editor | Jun 22, 2012 | Charity Spotlight
NEW YORK, 20 June 2012 – “The Independent Monitoring Board on progress with global polio eradication reports the significant finding that 2.7 million children in six countries have never been reached with a single polio vaccine. This is a clarion call to accelerate...
