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Launched
in October 2002, The Child Health Site focuses on saving children's
lives and improving the quality of their health. Over 200,000 children
die every week from preventable causes, and many millions more suffer
from preventable disease, cureable blindness, landmines and other
crippling accidents. Funding from the site helps an average of more than
1,000 children every day.
In less than five seconds, visitors to The Child Health Site can
click on the "Help a Child - Click Here" button and, at no cost to them,
save young lives and help children stay healthy. How? Each click - free
to the visitor - generates funds paid by site sponsors. The majority of
this funding goes to The Child Health Site's charity partners, who use
the funds to:
- distribute vitamin A, strengthening young immune systems and
improving resistance to disease. Vitamin A supplementation also
prevents as many as 400,000 cases of childhood blindness each year,
- administer oral re-hydration formula to children with severe
dehydration, a serious killer of children under five worldwide,
- make a prosthesis (usually a foot or a leg) to enable child
amputees to walk and lead active lives,
- restore lost eyesight through simple surgeries that reverse
blindness caused by cataracts and trachoma,
- test pregnant mothers for HIV as a step toward preventing
mother-to-child transmission of the AIDS virus.
How clicks are helping:
| Year
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Clicks
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# Children
Helped |
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Vitamin A
for Disease and Blindness Prevention |
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Emergency
Oral Re-hydration for Infants |
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Maternal
HIV/AIDS Test Kits |
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Eye Surgery
or Prosthesis |
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| 2005
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26,748,688
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486,339
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420,188
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60,305
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5,350
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486
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| 2004
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25,390,774
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461,651
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398,858
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57,249
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5,080
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464
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| 2003
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22,869,573
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542,071
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468,336
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67,218
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5,963
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542
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| 2002
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5,038,236
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174,827
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151,045
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21,679
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1,923
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175
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Please note that from January-March of 2003, Children
International provided Premier Sponsorship to The Child Health
Site that is reflected in the slightly higher donation totals
seen above in 2003 over 2004. |
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