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Health

Improving children’s health is a critical part of our work. With your help, we can do more to nourish children and mothers, educate communities and help protect the most vulnerable from getting sick or dying from preventable illnesses. 

In 2023, our health and nutrition programs reached 8,795,574 people, over half of whom were children.

Source: 2023 Annual Results Report

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Experience an immersive tour of a health facility in Baidoa, Somalia. 

The health facility is part of an initiative called REACTS-IN (Realizing Gender Equality, Attitudinal Change and Transformative Systems in Nutrition) that aims to improve nutrition and gender equality for marginalized women, adolescent girls and children under the age of five.

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Consistency and commitment—the formula for lasting change. Together, through monthly donations and community-led solutions, our work spans across five sectors where impact is needed most. 

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Health

We’ve reached millions through our health and nutrition programs and helped communities navigate through every health crisis from famines to the recent global pandemic. 

With your help, more children and families will get support for their ongoing wellbeing, healthcare workers will receive training and counseling, and clinics will be equipped with medicine and supplies to treat common ailments.  

of our overall donations supported health and nutrition programs around the world.

2,091

children’s lives are saved every year through our malnutrition treatment programs. That’s an average of 8 children every five hours.  

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