No Child Born to Die
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I’ve been tagged, it’s been a while. Red Ted Art’s blog got me as part of Save the Children’s awareness programme for its No Child Born to Die campaign.
In January, Save the Children launched its most ambitious campaign to date, No Child Born to Die. Every year 8 million children under five die from illnesses we know how to treat or prevent, such as diarrhoea, pneumonia and measles.
Save The Children is focusing on the provision of vaccinations and healthcare workers. In June there is a meeting in London hosted by David Cameron and attended by other world leaders. Save The Children aims to make as much noise as possible to ensure the funding shortfall for vaccinations (4.7 billion) is met by all the donor countries…to fully fund vaccines for every child in the world.
What can you do? Please sign the petition and consider joining in the crafty meme:
1. Ask you child/children to draw a picture of themselves either now or in the future. Like my boys’ efforts? Kind of spooky I thought.
2. Blog about it and include details of the campaign and the petition. But be quick! The petition closes on 29 May.
3. Tag 8 friends.
That’s it. I know that tagging and memes aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but they are an excellent way of building awareness in a short space of time. For important causes, and this is one of them, I think it’s worth the eye rolling and groaning that they involve (or is that just me?).
No child is born to die…every child is born to shine.
And with that I am tagging:
1. Diary of a First Child
2. Imperfect Pages
3. Parlez vous moo?
4. The Shopkeeper’s wife
5. The Crafty Bat
6. Mrs M’s Countrylife
7. Muddling Along Mummy
8. Helloitsgemma
And when you’ve done your post, please add it to the Blog Hop linkydinkydo below. I thank you. And Tweet about it using #passiton.
Oh my word!!! Your boys did BRILLIANTLY!! I LOVE THESE. And Spud – you were the first past the post – I salute you!!
Love the taggees… nice choice! Thanks for getting the ball rolling!
Maggy xxxxx
thank you very much for tagging me – I don’t mind a tag, just sometimes I don’t get round to doing this. This is a campaign I think it very important – so I shall get on this, as usual it will probably take me a few days. X
a very worthwhile cause.great to see how blogging is helping causes like this.
I love your boy’s pics! Bertie obviously sees a future without any dentists tee hee!
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Big thanks to Bertie and Digby for such brilliant pics. And thanks for taking part!
Liz
You’e welcome Liz, the least we could do. x
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