A rural health care center plays key role in reducing infant and child mortality
21-year-old Bintou Sabaly has given birth to three healthy children in her remote Senegalese village of Mounting
Hamady.
Nobody here has running water or electricity. Most people survive by growing crops and raising a few animals. Bintou
says the biggest development in recent memory was the creation of a health center, which serves 10,000 people in
35 surrounding villages. Bintou is fortunate to live in a country that is showing a strong commitment to improving child survival, in part by
focusing on nutrition. Senegal's national nutrition coordinator, Biram Ndiaye, says that by using nutrition as an entry
point to providing other services, Senegal has achieved the lowest malnutrition prevalence in West Africa.
Embed code for Blogs
Simply copy and paste the following HTML code below into your blog, website, or MySpace profile.
Copy to Clipboard
Share this video:
Simply click the button below and select your social bookmarking site.
Tag Cloud
Category: Public Benefit
Soundbites from Sonal Shah, interspersed with b-roll from India and photos from Africa and...
Views: 24917
Category: Public Benefit
Soundbites from Sonal Shah, interspersed with interviews with entrepreneurs from Africa and photos from...
Views: 20110
Category: Human Services
21-year-old Bintou Sabaly has given birth to three healthy children in her remote Senegalese village of Mounting
Hamady.
Nobody here has running water or electricity. Most people survive by growing crops and raising a few animals....
Tags:
health, nurse, medicine, child survival, women, West Africa, senegal, malnutrition, mother and child,
Views: 28279
Category: Human Services
Approximately 120,000 children in Burkina Faso have lost a parent to HIV/AIDS. Among them,
is Kiemde, 12, who lost his father two years ago. Now, he dedicates every weekend to
teaching his classmates and friends how to protect...
Views: 15710
Category: Public Benefit
Currently, there are 514,000 children in the U.S. foster care system and 115,000 of these
children are waiting for families to adopt them. The majority of waiting children are of
color with older African American boys waiting the...
Views: 23371
Category: Health & Care
Stroke is the third leading cause of death in America. Someone suffers a stroke every
45 seconds and there are 700,000 new or recurrent strokes annually. Stroke is also a
leading cause of severe, long-term disability as it can...
Views: 24671
Category: Human Services
UNICEF was to provide more than just humanitarian relief: in addition to nutrition and health, education and family issues became an additional focus. UNICEF's work was now to become a key to global development.Education, of...
Views: 18707
Category: Human Services
We find ourselves in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, where Ms. Rouamba, a widowed
mother of five children lives. Prisca attends a state secondary school. Her classmate Ramata is an orphan who lives with her uncle and...
Views: 12026
Category: Human Services
UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized.
We have the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots
level to turn the most...
Views: 7258
Category: International & Intercultural
World renowned singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo is in her home country of Benin this week
raising awareness about the rights of children.
Ms. Kidjo took part in several events including a taxi motorcycle rally...
Views: 14055
Category: Education & Career
From behind the grand colonial façade, a very different South Africa has emerged. A fusion of local traditions with
some of the best of the west gathered for the launch of the Nelson Mandela Institute for Education and...
Tags:
unicef, mandela institute, nelson mandela, south africa, school, hiv, aids, youth, education, children
Views: 17138
Category: Politics & Goverment
Displaced and destitute. Recent fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has left a humanitarian crisis.
Thousands have been helped already – families have been registered, children vaccinated against deadly diseases
and...
Tags:
unicef, humanitarian, crisis, war, peace, africa, congo, disease, government, health, safety, victim, soldier, politics
Views: 17332
UNICEF: Venezuela Indigenous Youth Radio
Family Violence Prevention Fund
Academy for Educational Development: Tumaini Letu, Our Hope
Project Safe Neighborhood
Emily Blunt - Live Earth PSA
UNICEF: Venezuela Indigenous Anu
Hepatitis C PSA with animated character Dennis
Born Learning: Laundromat
National Fatherhood Initiative: Errand
Under Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns on India
Soreno: Siobhan McCrudden, a Psoriasis
Rotary International: Symbols Spanish
UNICEF - Tanzania
World Breastfeeding Week focuses on the early start of breastfeeding
FEDEX: Boomer Esiason Interview
Star Wars Where Science Meets Imagination VNR
Stop Alcohol Abuse: Lisa
UNICEF - Sierra Leona girls going to school