About Child Survival

Simple Gifts Save Lives

Added up over time, the money you spend on a routine purchase could give a child that fifth birthday celebration.

You Buy	You spend...*	Over one month you spend...*	Your Money and the Child Survival Campaign Instead
One national newspaper	$.50	$15.00	Oral rehydration packets for 50 children suffering from diarrhea
One music download to your iPOD	$1.00	$30.00	Vaccinations against measles and rubella for 20 children
One gallon of gas	$3.00	$90.00	Textbooks on primary health care for 7.5 medical/nursing students
One large cappuccino	$4.00	$120.00	Delivery kits to help 30 mothers have safe and clean deliveries of their babies

* U.S. dollars.

The Child Survival Campaign works to prevent diseases and other conditions that cause the deaths of thousands of children under the age of five every year.

A priority project of the Pan American Education and Health Foundation (PAHEF), the Child Survival Campaign fights the problem of child mortality by raising funds to provide effective interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Campaign efforts include providing vaccines for immunization programs, implementing education campaigns to promote family and community health, providing equipment and training to control infection in health care facilities, and other activities.

Countries served by the Child Survival Campaign are our partners. Using limited domestic resources, they have already achieved some success and proved that the integrated, preventive approach works. Funds raised through the Campaign are used to expand programs, often to the poorest, hardest to reach, and often indigenous populations.

In conjunction with the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO), the Child Survival Campaign supports the Millennium Development Goal to decrease the child mortality rate by two-thirds by the year 2015.

Simple Gifts Save Lives

PAHEF and the Child Survival Campaign are dedicated to helping children survive to five.