Preventable Causes of Death

Diarrhea. Unclean water. Measles. Pneumonia. Tuberculosis. Malaria. Every day 25,000 children younger than 5 die from mostly preventable causes. Why?


several cross headstones depicting preventable diseases

Because they live in poor countries that aren’t a priority to developed nations. But they’re still a priority to God.

And they can be yours, too – compassion.com/youcan

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Child Survival 101

two women weighing baby on scale

Being a mother takes courage. Being an expectant mother in desperate poverty takes courage and so much more.

Each year more than 500,000 mothers die in childbirth or from pregnancy complications, most of which are preventable. The babies who survive while their mothers die are much more likely to die in their first year of life.

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