The Millennium Development Goals

#4: Reduce Child Mortality

In the 1980s, the world made rapid progress in reducing child mortality through promotion of oral rehydration, breast-feeding, growth charts and immunizations. That progress, however, has slowed and further progress will require more complex and difficult.

Parents everywhere want their children to be healthy, and The Hunger Project everywhere empowers family to ensure the health of their children.

• In Africa, our epicenters empower communities to provide 24x7 health care, including training mothers in good nutrition. Epicenter pre-schools ensure one nutritious meal a day for young children.
• In India, the women elected leaders we empower have increased the priority on health, education and nutrition - getting often dysfunctional health and nutritional programs to work effectively.
• In Bangladesh,  massive campaigns are carried out to reduce water-borne disease, often the biggest killer of malnourished children.
• In Latin America, we provide nutrition training, education and training for mothers, and campaign to make the health system more responsive to indigenous rural communities.

According to Unicef, one-half of all child mortality is nutrition related, and nutrition is complex issue - involving the nutrition and education of the mother, traditional practices and food taboos and other social factors. This is most important in South Asia, where child malnutrition rates are twice as high as in Africa.