Every day, babies are born to desperate and powerless parents in the developing world. Parents too poor to provide even the nourishment children need to ease their hunger pains, let alone survive.
Hunger is an extreme consequence of poverty. Children, families and entire communities are so poor, they don't have money to buy, or even grow their own food. More than 29,000 children die from preventable causes like malnutrition and parasites every day. It doesn't have to be like this.
It often takes a simple serving of porridge, a snack, and one good meal to change the situation. Nutritious food is fundamental to ending poverty and enabling a better life. As healthy children grow and learn, a stronger, sustainable workforce develops and parents can once again provide for their own children.
CCFC's health programs give children a fighting chance against desperate odds of survival.
Many childhood illnesses manifest themselves even before a baby is born.
With the help of our sponsors and donors, our focus on prenatal and natal care, vaccinations and medical treatment for children, as well as HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, has helped thousands of children escape an early death sentence.
By the year 2010, the number of AIDS orphans will have reached 20 million in Africa alone. Guided by the example of Christ, we must consider these children's desperate need for nurturing, support and counselling and do everything we can, to meet their psychological, emotional, ethical, legal and spiritual needs.
- Learn more about CCFC's fight against HIV / AIDS
- Learn the facts about HIV / AIDS
- Learn what CCFC is doing to help prevent HIV / AIDS
- Learn about the issues around gender and HIV / AIDS
- Learn about the lives affected by HIV / AIDS
- Additional resources on HIV / AIDS
Want to learn more, view CCFC's video on HIV / AIDS
Deadly, but preventable diseases are taking too many lives and can be stopped with simple childhood immunizations - immunizations available since the 1960's.
In 2002, measles killed more than one million children in Africa. Today it kills less than half that number. Tomorrow it could be zero.
Our health and nutrition programs are designed to create lasting solutions to reduce malnutrition and strengthen children's bodies as well as their minds. Healthy children mean that as they grow and learn, a stronger, educated, sustainable workforce can be developed.