Casa Cuna is a free-of-charge childcare center in Puebla, Mexico serving young children from poor and dysfunctional families. Continue reading
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Help Deliver Health Services in the Congo!
A new bridge connects the two parts of Kwilu Ngongo, providing a reliable access to the Mother and Child Hospital.
In many parts of the world thousands of people die from causes that would be preventable if they had basic services like clean water, sanitary toilets and access to simple healthcare procedures and medicines. In places that do not have these infants often die of diarrheal disease and mothers, often too young to safely carry a child, die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. Continue reading
Healthcare for a Neglected Population: SD DRC Stage II
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Mother and Child at the hostpital
Decades of conflict and a lack of government investment have made it hard for people in the DRC to access basic healthcare. The distances, cost of transport, lack of health infrastructure, bad roads, burden of disease, poverty and poor nutrition combine to create a toxic mix that results in one of the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world. Continue reading