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Community Health Worker


Campaign Update:

On the Front Lines

Community health workers treat pneumonia in Ethiopia and Uganda.
Watch a video success story

Momentum Builds to Save Millions
of Children from Pneumonia

July 16, 2009 — Representatives from major health and humanitarian relief organizations, including Save the Children, are coming together to coordinate outreach efforts for the first-ever World Pneumonia Day on Nov. 2, 2009. The growing coalition is mobilizing a diverse constituency around pneumonia. Latest Press Release

Save the Children Artist Ambassadors Gwyneth Paltrow and Hugh Laurie joined the agency in calling for an annual World Pneumonia Day.
 

Our Goals

  • Raise awareness of preventable newborn deaths — inexpensive solutions already exist
  • Encourage citizen action to help increase U.S. government funding
  • Increase private contributions — especially to bring health care to every village

See How Others Are Helping
Us to Save Young Lives

Community Health Workers on the Front Lines Watch a Video Success Story about treating pneumonia in Ethiopia and Uganda.
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Meet Makenna
A young supporter went to Washington, D.C. to ask for health initiatives in the developing world.
Nurse Vicki
Vicki Akin is a labor and delivery nurse who traveled to Ethiopia with Save the Children.
Molly's Story
Molly is one of many schoolchildren who knitted caps for our Knit One, Save One campaign.
Letters to the President
Children across America sent messages to President Obama to support newborn health.

 
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