May04
This week, from the capital of Kigali to the countryside, kids in Rwanda will receive a major kick start to their chances for a healthy future as UNICEF supports that nation’s Mother and Child Health Week. Through mass mobilizations of medical services and lifesaving interventions, UNICEF and Rwandans will work together to deliver child immunizations, health education, and vital medications to families across the country. Yet one aspect of the campaign particularly stands out to me: the vaccination of nearly 300,000 pregnant mothers against Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus (MNT).
Mar01
I recently accompanied a Key Club and a Kiwanis representative to Swaziland. Swaziland is a small country in southern Africa, with a population of one million, but with the highest HIV infection rate in the world. This was our second trip to Swaziland; in 2007, after Key Club’s youth led board voted to fund programs there, I accompanied four Key Club members to Swaziland to learn more. In June 2007, we visited several neighborhood care points (NCPs), which were community-based locations where trained volunteers would provide informal education, warm meals and basic health care services to children who were orphaned or made vulnerable from HIV and AIDS. The Neighborhood care points, supported by UNICEF, were trying to reach as many kids as possible, but needed financial support to reach more children.
Jul01
My colleague Adam Fifield and I spend a lot of time writing about child survival issues. And most of the writing we do isn’t for this blog
Jan08
The tiny nation of Swaziland in Southern Africa has the world’s highest HIV-prevalence rate and, as a tragic result, is home to more than 70,000 orphans and vulnerable children.
During a U.S. Fund for UNICEF field visit to Swaziland last May, I met one of these orphans, seventeen-year-old Nonhlanhla Mabundza.
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Nov07
Even after working on child survival issues for over a year, I still find myself occasionally forgetting that my old assumptions about HIV and AIDS are false. These are not
Oct16
We’re proud of our many Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF partners, and our partnership with Key Club International is one for which we are especially grateful, as Key Clubbers last year raised over $750,000 in support of the Swazi Children Care Project through Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF and plan to raise more this fall.
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