Raising hands for child health

Friday, June 6, 2014

Children from Doti district of Nepal raise their hands in a display of support to child health and World Vision’s Global Week of Action 2014.

Global Week of Action (GWA) was World Vision's mobilisation event under the Child Health Now campaign. It was an urgent call for action before the 2015 deadline for Millennium Development Goals is missed and millions more lives lost needlessly. Governments must live up to the promises they have already made, and, as they negotiate the post 2015 development agenda, we must make sure that the voices of children and mothers are heard, and their health and nutrition are prioritised. In the GWA, the urgent need to target the millions of children left out by current efforts, and reach them with nutrition and health services, to ensure that they survive to see their fifth birthday was highlighted. The focus was on solutions to preventable deaths and on creating a global popular movement for change so that more children survive beyond their fifth birthday.

In Nepal, 233,954 supporters including children, parents, youth, community members, influential leaders, decision makers and policy makers raised their hands in support of the event.