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Save the Children Joins with Scholastic to "Knock Pneumonia Off the Map!"
New Website and Google Map to Help Reach More Than 200,000 Teachers Nationwide in Fight Against Childhood Pneumonia
WESTPORT, Conn. (Nov.16, 2009) — Save the Children today announced "Knock Pneumonia Off the Map," a new educational program with Scholastic, the international children's publishing, education and media company, that will educate children, teachers and parents nationwide about childhood pneumonia.
The new "Knock Pneumonia Off the Map" website that launched today provides lesson plans and printables that engage students on the issue of childhood pneumonia, while helping to teach essential standard-based skills in math, science, reading comprehension and geography.
Teachers can "Put Your Classroom on the Map!" to register their participation on a special Save the Children Google map page.
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Save the Children Launches Interactive Online Quiz Game "Mission: Pneumonia." Players Can Share Facts via Twitter and Facebook
WESTPORT, Conn. (Nov.2,2009) — On the first annual World Pneumonia Day, Save the Children launched a special online quiz game, Mission: Pneumonia, to help people get the facts about childhood pneumonia. Read latest press release
New U.S. Senate Bill to Improve Global Survival Rates for Mothers and Babies
A bi-partisan team of U.S. Senators introduced legislation on October 28, 2009 that would improve the health and survival of mothers and children under age 5 in developing countries. Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Bob Corker (R-TN) co-sponsored the bill called the Global Child Survival Act of 2009.
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