Christoph
15-05-07, 21:01
This Mother's Day, millions of families will celebrate life's most fundamental bond between mother and child. And yet for too many families in poor countries, the joy of parenthood is cut short by anguish. This May, nearly a million parents worldwide will lose a young child.
Every 3 seconds a child dies from a preventable or treatable cause. That is 28,000 every day. Our goal for this petition is 28,000 signatures, symbolic of this statistic. Ten million children under five die from preventable and treatable diseases every year. They're not dying from mysterious, incurable diseases, but from diarrhea, pneumonia, malnutrition and other causes that would be unthinkable in our own country.
The significant commitment of the United States to children's health in the developing world contributed to a 50 percent reduction in child mortality between 1960 and 1990. And yet we've allowed funding for global maternal and child health programs to decline by 20 percent in the last 10 years.
Members of Congress have stepped up and introduced the Global Child Survival Act. This legislation would recommit the United States to improving children's health by expanding funding for proven solutions like immunizations and antibiotics.
Please tell your representatives in Congress to support the Global Child Survival Act.
Sign the Petition HERE (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/905681673?ltl=1179255619)
Every 3 seconds a child dies from a preventable or treatable cause. That is 28,000 every day. Our goal for this petition is 28,000 signatures, symbolic of this statistic. Ten million children under five die from preventable and treatable diseases every year. They're not dying from mysterious, incurable diseases, but from diarrhea, pneumonia, malnutrition and other causes that would be unthinkable in our own country.
The significant commitment of the United States to children's health in the developing world contributed to a 50 percent reduction in child mortality between 1960 and 1990. And yet we've allowed funding for global maternal and child health programs to decline by 20 percent in the last 10 years.
Members of Congress have stepped up and introduced the Global Child Survival Act. This legislation would recommit the United States to improving children's health by expanding funding for proven solutions like immunizations and antibiotics.
Please tell your representatives in Congress to support the Global Child Survival Act.
Sign the Petition HERE (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/905681673?ltl=1179255619)