Save the Children Featured in BBC World  Invisible Lives Documentary About Newborn Survival

WESTPORT, Conn. — Many of the nearly 4 million newborn deaths that occur worldwide each year could be prevented with simple, cost-effective solutions, according to Invisible Lives, a documentary airing across the globe in January on BBC World.  A video excerpt from the program can be viewed here.

Dr. Joy Lawn, a newborn health expert with Save the Children, travels to Nepal and Malawi to examine how these two countries, although worlds apart, are making progress in saving newborn lives.

The entire program can be viewed at www.rockhopper.tv

Read the press release.

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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. — Save the Children has launched "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 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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The Survive to 5 campaign supports Millennium Development Goal 4 — to reduce child mortality by two thirds by 2015 and save the lives of over 5 million children under 5 who are dying of preventable and treatable diseases.

In order to reduce child mortality by two-thirds by 2015 we focus on:

• Increasing access to community health care for children and their families in countries where access to clinics is limited.
• Supporting advocacy efforts to ensure governments in donor and developing countries prioritize spending on maternal and child health programs.
• Mobilizing citizens and leaders to take action on behalf of children, with efforts such as World Pneumonia Day.

Best Shot Foundation Creates First Annual Dodgeball Tournament to 'Pnock Out Pneumonia'

This winter, hundreds of teams will compete on campuses across the country. Spin throws will fly, glory will be grabbed, and teams will be crowned the Pnock Out Pneumonia Dodgeball Champions!

  Find a regional tournament in your area.

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Global Pneumonia Summit: Watch the Summit

More than 200 scientists, journalists, public health leaders and policymakers gathered in New York City on Nov. 2, to discuss pneumonia prevention and treatment at the first-ever Global Pneumonia Summit. Watch the Webcast.

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