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polly7

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Fri May 8, 2015, 12:20 PM May 2015

No Child Under 5 Should Expect To Die



68 World Vision offices are joining in a Global Week of Action around child health. Be a part of this global movement by watching and sharing a child's Last Will and Testament.


Poverty is the number 1 barrier to mothers and children getting the health care they need.

There are over 1 billion people surviving on less than $1 a day and the simple reality is that health care is often both financially and logistically out of reach for millions of mothers and children.

Even with all the advances that have been made in child health and safe birthing practices, the most vulnerable continue to die unknown and uncounted, just because they can't access life-saving health services.






















http://promise.worldvision.ca/the-solution#protection
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No Child Under 5 Should Expect To Die (Original Post) polly7 May 2015 OP
Triage is rough nitpicker May 2015 #1
What I mean is the decisions any third-woman has to face if they lose other support nitpicker May 2015 #2

nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
1. Triage is rough
Fri May 8, 2015, 01:03 PM
May 2015

1. Abandon the chronically sick/deformed.

2. Abandon the young daughters.

3. Sell off- er, marry off- any daughters over 10 years old.

4. Become a "working woman".

nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
2. What I mean is the decisions any third-woman has to face if they lose other support
Fri May 8, 2015, 01:19 PM
May 2015

In America, they can give kids up to foster care.

But is that a prolonged death?

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