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“The Save the Children’s report “A Life Free from Hunger: Tackling Child Malnutrition” highlights how important nutrition is to the health of the world’s most vulnerable people, particularly mothers and children. Historically, Canada has been a leader in supporting international nutrition efforts globally. As I have stated on many occasions, it is important to help meet the need for food, but it is critical to provide the right food.”
The Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation

“Join me and support No Child Born to Die. If we all pull together we can start a movement for change and save millions of children’s lives.”
Paul McCartney

“Keeping children alive is a global responsibility and priority. This campaign is driving action around the world to make sure that the promises made to children across the world are kept.”
Graça Machel

“It is unacceptable that women and their babies continue to die in childbirth in the 21st Century because of lack of access to midwives and other maternity healthcare providers. Volumes of words have been spoken for far too long and it is now time for different actions and strategies.”
Frances Day-Stirk, the Royal College of Midwives director of Learning, Research and Practice Development

“The right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health is a fundamental right of every human being. Yet each year millions of people, mainly in developing countries, die unnecessarily of diseases that can be easily prevented. The vast majority of victims are babies and young children.”
Mary Robinson

“I’m here today to add my thumbprint and my support to this cause, just one of three million people from across the globe – from the poorest communities to world leaders – who have signed up to Save the Children’s EVERY ONE campaign.”
Claire Danes

“This campaign is aimed at cutting preventable deaths of children in our country and is close to my heart.”
Kunal Kapoor

“There is nothing more precious than the life of a child. This is where we find hope for the future. I encourage people around the world to make their voices heard and back this campaign.”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

“Today we decided that our support to this international organisation, for an important project like EVERY ONE, should grow to a higher level, and we decided to offer, from the beginning of the championship, the most visible platform of communication that we have available- our shirt.”
Mario Cognigni, Fiorentina’s vice president

“It is shocking and shameful that around 9 million children across the world still die every year under the age of five, when there are proven health and nutrition interventions that could help them to live and thrive.  With the world a very long way from achieving Millenium Development Goals 4 and 5 on reducing child mortality and improving maternal health, this report should serve as a wake –up call to governments and others on the urgent need for action.”
Dr Gro Harlem Brudtland (The Next Revolution Report)

“Save the Children’s work to put these issues on the global agenda and to line up citizen and voter support in a number of countries has been critical.”
Robert Orr, United Nations

No child is born to die. And no mother should die giving birth. Yet every year millions do.

Save the Children is campaigning to end this injustice.

Our vision is that no child under the age of 5 dies from preventable causes,and that public attitudes will not tolerate a return to high levels of child deaths.

Our goal is that Millennium Development Goal 4 – a two thirds reduction in child mortality rates by 2015 – is achieved

Our objective is that by 2015 we will have catalysed a breakthrough in governments’ policy and practice that dramatically accelerates sustainable progress towards MDGs 4 and 5.

EVERY ONE is Save the Children’s biggest ever global campaign. We’re campaigning to make stopping children and mothers dying a political priority and mobilising thousands of people in both rich and poor countries.

What drives the campaign is our vision that no child under the age of five will die from preventable causes and public attitudes will not tolerate a return to high levels of child deaths.

Our overall aim for the campaign is to have helped achieve Millennium Development Goal 4 on new-born and child survival. This means also addressing the health and wellbeing of mothers and accelerating progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5.

We can stop children dying

Proven, low-tech and inexpensive solutions exist to stop children dying. But they’re simply not being deployed on the scale needed to tackle the problem. Most importantly, these deaths are not random events beyond our control. To a considerable extent, they are the outcome of policy and political choices taken by governments. They are also influenced by cultural, economic, environmental, political and social factors that governments, international institutions, the private sector and civil society could help to shape or mitigate. We must address these underlying causes of newborn and child mortality – poverty, discrimination, conflict, the denial of rights and barriers to equitable access to high quality health systems.

What we need is the will – from politicians, the public, aid agencies, companies, EVERY ONE – to make it happen on a global scale.

Read our report The next revolution. We also have reports on Health Workers and Vaccines.

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