Food Security

Save the Children focuses on reducing hunger and chronic malnutrition and reaches some 50,000 children and their families. A recent maternal/infant health and nutrition survey demonstrated a 5.6 percent reduction in chronic malnutrition as a result of our programs in 200 rural communities in the Department of La Paz.

Children in a School Health and Nutrition program in Bolivia demonstrate how to brush their teeth.

Health

Save the Children implements simple, low-cost measures to keep newborns alive and healthy, including "clean delivery" practices and promoting exclusive breastfeeding. In collaboration with Save the Children, the Bolivian Ministry of Health and Sports has developed a strategy to reduce newborn deaths. School-age children benefit from Save the Children's School Health and Nutrition programs, which distribute micronutrients to girls and boys, provide first aid kits for classrooms, screen for vision and hearing impairments and train teachers and parents in basic health issues.