This document discusses the charity "Women and Children First" which focuses on saving lives of mothers and babies in developing countries. The charity works to help millions of women have successful births and healthy children. Donating money can pay for women's health groups, training for community workers, and lifesaving medical care for mothers and newborns. Stories are shared of women like Archana and Ram Maya who benefited from the charity's work and were able to save their babies.

1. Our Chosen Charity
By Phoebe Aylward and Beth Lang
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2. MDG – Goals 4&5
Goal 4 – Reduce Child Mortality
Goal 5 – Improve Maternal Health
We chose these goals as we need to make sure the children
are born and the mothers are healthy before we worry
about goals that don’t concern mortality.
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3. More than 250,000 women die each
year in pregnancy and childbirth in
South Asia and Africa?
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Did You Know

4. And over three million new-
born babies die each year in
childbirth.
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5. 99% of these deaths happen in
developing countries.
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6. Our Charity - Women And Children First
(UK)
This charity saves the lives of mothers and babies who are
dying in poorer countries like parts of Africa and Asia. They help
millions of women give a successful birth and produce a healthy
child.
What they do
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Why we chose this Charity
We chose this charity because a lot of the money given actually
goes to helping mothers and babies. They also cover two of the
Millennium Development Goals which is better.

7. How the Money is Spent
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8. What Our Money Will Go Towards
•£10 will pay for two women to attend a women’s group for a year
•£50 can pay for a women's group facilitator for a year
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•£100 can save a mother's life in Nepal
•£210 can save a new-born's life in rural Bangladesh
•£500 will train two community health workers to look after
mothers and babies in rural Malawi

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Archana Kumari married at the age
of 13 and had her first baby at the
age of 14 at home as she didn’t
know about women and children
first. At the age of just 17 she is
having her second baby and this
time she is able to get the help she
so desperately needs.

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Ram Maya Praya is one of the many
grandmothers living in Bharta village,
in Nepal. A new baby was born into
her family. When he was born it was
still and cold and they thought he was
going to die. But Ram Maya was able
to save her grandson due to the skills
women and children first had
provided her with.

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By putting us through, you will give a child
the chance to live and give a mother or
grandmother like Archana and Ram Maya
the child they always hoped for. As we are
one of the top schools in Scotland, giving
the money to women and children first will
boost the charity’s image and therefore,
more donations will be made, and more
lives will be saved.