My dear friends from all around the world, we send you joy, peace and happiness during this season of celebration and reflection. As we approach the end of 2022 we look back on yet another year of wonderous highs and gut-wrenching lows. The area that encompasses our focus on woman and girls is located in an area characterized more benignly as a Red Zone, more definitively as...
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Since 2012, October 11th has been marked as the International Day of the Girl. This day aims to highlight and address the needs and challenges girls face, while promoting girls’ empowerment and the fulfillment of their human rights. The theme for this year is “My voice, our equal future”. Girls worldwide are demanding a life free from gender-based violence, access to health, skills, recognition and investment...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated 2020 as The Year of the Nurse and Midwife. This year is also the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. The theme for International Nurses Day, celebrated on May 12th, is “Nursing the World to Health.” Historically, as well as today, nurses are at the forefront of fighting epidemics and pandemics - providing high quality and respectful treatment and care. They...
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By: Elly Zervoudakis Our bike project was completed successfully! The bikes were delivered to the Godase School in Lonavla, Maharashtra, India. The children of this rural school travel up to 10 km every day to get to and from school, often returning alone in the dark on traitorous roads. This project was completed in collaboration with FICCI FLO. Mrs Sucheta Shah, Chair of the Maharashtra State Committee...
Read MoreChildren are the future. The world must ensure the health, growth and development of our children. According to Save the Children, nearly 5.9 million children die each year due to preventable and treatable causes, including 1 million newborns who die on the day they are born....
Read MoreToday is World Hepatitis Day. World Hepatitis Day takes places every year on July 28th to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and to bring about real change. This year’s theme is “Eliminate Hepatitis”....
Read MoreWorld Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from August 1 – 7 all over the globe to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world....
Read MoreWomen who have high-risk pregnancies or complications in childbirth are up to eight times more likely to suffer heart disease later in life. And many mothers — and their doctors — are unaware of the danger....
Read MoreThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a new e-Learn on vaccine administration. According to the CDC, proper vaccine administration is critical for ensuring that vaccines are both safe and effective. Vaccine administration errors happen more often than you might think....
Read MoreAround 1 in 6 older people experience some form of abuse. This figure is higher than previously estimated and is predicted to increase as populations age around the world. A new study (based on 52 studies in 28 countries), supported by World Health Organization (WHO) and published in the Lancet Global Health, has found that almost 16% of people aged 60 years and older...
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