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esults for Children, Quarter 4 | December 2011An Update from Save the Children

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Since 2001, Malawi has achieved a 29 percent decline in newborn deathsrom 19,000 per year to 17,000 per year in 2010. In those 10 years,

Save the Children, with the suppor t o its many donors, has made signicant

contributions toward this acheivement.

Teaching Others How to Save a Life

Save the Children and partners have trained and supported over 1,700

rontline health workersoten people with little ormal education but who

are respected in their communities. These health workers counsel mothers,

detect lie-threatening conditions in newborns and reer them to health

acilities when necessary. Today, rontline health workers deliver community-

based maternal and newborn care in nearly two-thirds o Malawis districts.

Caring for a New Baby

Local customs can sometimes be at odds with what is best or baby and

mother, which is why Save the Children promotes and teaches essential

newborn care. It starts with prenatal care and includes checkups or newborns

in the rst two days ater birth, when most newborns are at greatest risk.

Frontline health workers also educate mothers and caregivers in how to care

or their newborns. Today, essential newborn care provides the oundation or

Save the Childrens newborn health programs in 18 countr ies.

Saving Babies Born Too Early or Too Small

Kangaroo Mother Care is the whimsical name or an eective way to care

or low bir th weight and preterm babies. Wrapping a baby skin-to-skin against

its mothers chest (like a kangaroos pouch), keeps it warm, encourages

breasteeding and bonding, and prevents inections. Save the Children has

promoted Kangaroo Mother Care in Malawi since 2002, and today more than

100 health acilities use this approach. We are working with the government o

Malawi to take this practice nationwide.

Additional unding rom the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is allowing

Save the Children to analyze results and lessons learned rom Malawis

decade-long program and continue to promote newborn health around

the world.

Improvements inNewborn Survival:Malawi 20012011 Melinda Gatesin Malawi

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Traditions can keep a cultural heritage alive, passing down customs rom generation to generation.

But some traditional health practices, which can lead to the deaths o newborns or mothers,

continue simply because the community has not yet learned a better way.

A ew years ago, Save the Children and our partners at Ekwendeni Mission

Hospital in nor thern Malawi came up with a great, yet simple, idea: Engage

and train the agogos, or grandparents, to spread modern health care practices

instead o traditional practices to their children and grandchildren. Known as the

guardians o wisdom in these communities, the agogos were the ideal messengers

or newborn care.The Ekwendeni sta, with technical assistance rom Save the Children, educated

more than 4,000 agogos about healthy newborn and maternal care. These

respected elders quickly learned about the need or checkups or pregnant women

and the importance o keeping newborns warm and

dry, breasteeding regularly and preventing inections.

The agogos wasted no time in putting their

training to use. With the authority o their age

and position, they introduced mothers-to-be and amily members

in their villages to the practices that would help newborns stay

healthy. They encouraged pregnant women to go to the hospital

well beore they went into labor. They created songs and little

dramas about danger signs during pregnancy. They traveled rom

one village to the next to instruct pregnant women and new

mothers about the need or checkups or their babies in the rst

days ater birth. And they discouraged the harmul traditions that

caused many newborn deaths.

The agogo approach is just one o Save the Childrens

contributions to promoting newborn health in Malawi. But it shows

the determination o amilies to accept new approaches to improve

the health o their children. As a local agogo, Laitom Chawinga said, I

see the use o what I teach, and I am proud I am a good teacher.

Save the Childrentaught

4,000village elders topromote newbornhealth care practicesin the villages ofnorthern Malawi.

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Eective Practices ReplaceTradition in Newborn Health

Watch agogosin action atwww.gatesfoundation.org/videos.

To see other ways were helping to save the lives o newborn babiesworldwide, check outwww.savethechildren.org/savenewborns.

The ONE Campaign and Living Proo

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Four-year-old Neha has a spring in her step as she walks down the street with her mother, headed or

Seto Gurans Babatika, one o 57 early childhood development centers in Nepal that oers

Save the Childrens Healing and Education through the Arts (HEART) program. You would never know

that Nehas amily lives on $6 a daythe most that her shoemaker ather and seamstress mother earn

on a good day. Nor would you know that their village o Baglung Bazar, like so many others in Nepal,

still struggles to recover rom years o ghting and confict.

Neha doesnt like missing a day at the center, said Meena, Nehas mother. As soon as she nds a

piece o paper she starts scribbling. She sings, draws and dances. She already knows a lot.

The HEART program uses the arts to improve the emotional well-being o children aected

by chronic poverty, confict, natural disasters or HIV/AIDS. Arts educationincluding drawing,

painting, music, poetry, dance, drama and storytellinggives children a channel to express traumatic

experiences, cope with ongoing stress and become more engaged in, and receptive to, broader

educational activities.

In Nepal, the HEART program trains teachers, caregivers and parents to use the arts to help heal

their children. It also helps to improve the quality o early learning activities at preschools by integrating

early learning concepts with arts activities that make learning un or kids. Some o these are physical

skills to help them to hold a pencil or paint brush, which are necessary to learn how to write. Other

exercises are designed to develop the ability to identiy objects in the world around them and

associate pictures with words and their meanings.In many poor communities around the world, particularly in areas aected by confict, Neha could

have become just another statistic, one o some 67 million children who miss out on school or drop

out in the early years. Instead, this little girl has condently taken the rst steps into school and is

poised to begin a lietime o learningalong with 60,000 more young children in rural Nepal.

I am condent that Neha will adjust easily to the school environment next year when she goes on

to primary school, adds her teacher.

The HEART program is currently being carried out by Save the Children in Haiti, Malawi and

Mozambique as well as Nepal.

HEART: TheHealing Powero Art orYoung Children

Go towww.savechildren.org/HEART to see children who are growing through art.

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Will Our ChildrenBe Ready WhenDisaster Strikes?

Jennier Kaleba

Director o Marketing and Communications, U.S. Programs

Emergencies

Does your state require schools and preschools to have plans in case oa disaster? Go towww.savethechildren.org/prepareto nd out.

Im not what you would call a helicopter mom, but there are some things I can be a little, well, intense about.

Car seats, or example. Drop-side cribs. Light socket covers. Running with scissors. Generally, anything that has

to do with my 2-year-old daughters saety.

Advocating or child saety is one o the things I really like about working or Save the Children. Here, a

premium is put on preparing communities to respond quickly and eectively so children are protected when

disaster strikes. Whether were talking about a cyclone in Bangladesh or a tornado in Alabama, our disaster

preparedness sta aims to ensure that schools and households are ready and accountable or the children in

their care.

To that end, we released our ourth annual National Report Card on Protecting Children during Disaster in

August 2011, and it showed just how ar we have to go to make sure children are protected in the event odisaster. Although 90 percent o U.S. children live in areas at risk o natural disasters, only 17 states meet all our

basic preparedness and saety standards to protect children in schools and child care acilities during a disaster.

Part o my job is to get media attention and public support or increasing disaster-preparedness or U.S.

children. During the intense days ollowing the release o the report, I hardly thought o anything but reaching

amilies across the country who might not know i their kids would be sae during a disaster when they sent

them o to school or day care. Thats when it occurred to me: What had my own daughters preschool done

to meet state preparedness standards? I had no idea.

While my state o Maryland does meet all the criteriaor which Im thankul to Save the Children or

successully lobbyingI didnt know what the implementation looked like. What were the protocols, the

evacuation sites, the lock-down rules?

Armed with Save the Childrens checklist or parents (www.savethechildren.org/prepare), I arranged to

meet with my daughters teachers to nd out just what their plans were in the event o a disaster. Not only

were they pleased to discuss the schools preparations, they helped me think about our amilys plans as well.

This whole experience taught me that as much as state governments must be responsible, parents also

need to prepare and, as important, ask questions. I your state doesnt meet all criter ia, call your school board,

your day care, your legislator and ask i theres a plan or preparedness. Tell them about Save the Children and

how we work to make communities resilient and ready or kids during disasters. And dont let another year go

by unprepared!

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Raya, a 14-year-old Egyptian girl, had always dreamed o attending school, but her ather did

not believe that women should have a role outside o the home. While reaching manhood

is an empowering transition or boys, in many parts o the world, womanhood is quite the

opposite. One hundred million girls in developing countries are taken out o school early to

become wives and mothers, with the result that, globally, more than 529 million women are

illiterate. This is a great waste o human potential, and the evidence strongly supports the act

that empowering adolescent girls is the key

to liting amilies out o poverty, empowering

communities and perhaps changing the courseo an entire nation.

Thanks to the vision o our corporate

donors (see Investing in the Future, right),

Save the Children is opening doors or girls

in more than 15 countries by increasing their

access to education, sexual and reproductive health, and training in nancial literacy and

lie skills. One successul program or girls is Ishraq in Egypt, supported by the Exxon-Mobil

Foundation. Ishraq (meaning enlightenment in Arabic) is a second chance program or out-

o-school adolescent girls, most o whom have never attended school or are illiterate. More

than 1,000 gir ls who par ticipate in Ishraq literacy classes are eager to learn: In 2010,

83 percent o the graduates passed the government literacy test and 67 percent entered

ormal education programs. Save the Children is now working to bring Ishraq to more than 300

youth centers across the country.

When the Save the Children program promoter came to Rayas house to tell the amily

about Ishraq, Raya was thr illed. At rst , her ather said no, but he eventually relented when

Rayas uncle joined the chorus. Raya has become the rst literate emale in her amily and her

ather is proud. Now I am a better person because I know how to read and write , thanks to

Ishraq, she said.

Save the Childrens goal is to bring girls out o the shadows. Through Ishraq and similar

Save the Children programs worldwide, girls

have the opportunity to achieve their ull

social and economic potential.

Save the Children is openingdoors for girls in more than

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Photo CreditsCover: Susan Warner, Nepal.

Inside cover: Je Holt, Bangladesh.

p.1 Let to right: Mark Amann, NCI Communications, Malawi.Upper right: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Malawi.

p.2 Far let: The ONE Campaign and Living Proo, Malawi. Atright, let and center photos: Save the Children, Malawi. Farright: Naomi Kalemba, Malawi.

p.3 Main photo: Keshab-Thoker, Nepal. From let to right:Susan Warner, Connecticut; Rebecca Janes, Haiti; NelsonCossa, Mozambique; Keshab-Thoker, Nepal; NelsonCossa Mozambique

p.4 Main photo: Michael Wyke, Oklahoma. From let andcenter photos: Rick DElia, Arizona. Far right: Gary Dowd,South Carolina.

p.5 Main photo: Save the Children, Egypt. From let to right:Joshua Roberts, Mali; Save the Children, Vietnam; FauzanIjazah, Pakistan; Mats Lignell, Aghanistan.