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2/15/2012
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Will you help end the hidden crisis of child malnutrition?
| Hunger is a death sentence for millions of children around the world. For many more, it’s a life sentence. Every day 1,000 children die due to severe malnutrition. An additional 6,000 children die every die because chronic malnutrition has made preventable and treatable illnesses deadly. Hunger is also a life sentence. In poor countries, one child in four grows up ‘stunted’. Malnutrition makes it more difficult to learn, to live a healthy life, to escape poverty. But simple solutions can make a huge difference. Act Now. Take action to tell your MP that you're hungry for change. | |  Photo by Colin Crowley / Save the Children. |
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2/15/2012
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Hidden Malnutrition Crisis putting Children at Risk: New Report
| On 15 February, 2012, Save the Children launches a new Report ‘A Life Free from Hunger’ and recognizes Nutrition Hero, Inventor of ‘Sprinkles’ Dr. Stanley Zlotkin. Despite global efforts to address food security, childhood malnutrition has been largely overlooked, putting almost half a billion children at risk of permanent damage in the next 15 years, Save the Children said in a new report released today. Save the Children’s new report, titled “A Life Free from Hunger: Tackling Child Malnutrition,” was released as the world begins to awaken to the latest emergency food crisis, in the African Sahel. But the report reveals that chronic malnutrition, or a lack of proper nutrition over time, is deadlier and far more widespread than the short-term acute malnutrition frequently seen during food crises. Chronic malnutrition weakens young children’s immune systems, leaving them far more likely to die of childhood diseases like diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria. It leads to 2 million child deaths a year, three times as many as result from acute malnutrition. The new report calls for action on proven solutions that would prevent these deaths and help all children affected by hunger and malnutrition. Progress on reducing malnutrition has been extremely slow for 20 years, in comparison to great strides made on other global health crises. Read More > | | 
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2/13/2012
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Launch Event: Tackling Child Malnutrition
| On Wednesday 15 February, Save the Children is co-hosting an event in New York in partnership with the Canadian Permanent Mission to the UN and the Zambian Permanent Mission to the UN. The event will see the launch of our new global report: ‘A Life Free from Hunger: Tackling Child Malnutrition’, marking a critically important year for nutrition. We will be recognizing Dr Stanley Zlotkin MD, PhD, a professor of Paediatrics, Public Health Sciences and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto. Dr Zlotkin is the inventor of Sprinkles, a supplement that mothers can use at home to fortify foods for babies. For all the latest campaign news on 15th, follow us on Twitter. | |  Photo by Colin Crowley / Save the Children. |
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2/10/2012
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The Charter to End Extreme Hunger
| More than 13 million people were affected by the crisis in the Horn of Africa in 2011. There were clear early warning signs, many months in advance, yet there was insufficient response. All actors need to change their approach to chronic drought situations by managing the risks, not the crisis. This means actively seeking to reduce risk in all activities, not waiting for certainty before responding, and breaking the humanitarian–development divide. Save the Children (with 26 other NGOs) is calling on governments around the world to take life-saving measures to protect children. To this end we have created the Charter to End Extreme Hunger. The Charter outlines specific actions that governments should take to stop widespread starvation as a result of drought, high food prices and conflict. The crisis was predicted – and preventable. Act now. Sign our petition asking Parliament to endorse the Charter and save lives. | | 
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1/16/2012
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World Marathon Day 2012
| We're delighted to announce that the 2012 Save the Children World Marathon Challenge will take place on Tuesday October 16, 2012, in partnership with Sportshall Associates. We've chosen this date to coincide with World Food Day and this year we'll be asking children around the world to run together in solidarity with children suffering from malnutrition including too many Aboriginal children here in Canada. We will be calling on politicians around the world to do whatever they can to help. We very much hope that you'll be part of the next step towards the world's biggest ever children's sporting event. Register your interest by emailing advocacy@savethechildren.ca | |  Photo by Brent Wesley (Wawatay News) for Save the Children. |
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