Sunday, January 1, 2006

Children's Charities

The Child Health Site
The majority of this funding goes to The Child Health Site's charity partners, who use the funds to distribute vitamin A, strengthening young immune systems and improving resistance to disease. Vitamin A supplementation also prevents as many as 400,000 cases of childhood blindness each year; administer oral re-hydration formula to children with severe dehydration, a serious killer of children under five worldwide; make a prosthesis (usually a foot or a leg) to enable child amputees to walk and lead active lives; restore lost eyesight through simple surgeries that reverse blindness caused by cataracts and trachoma; test pregnant mothers for HIV as a step toward preventing mother-to-child transmission of the AIDS virus. Funding from the site helps an average of more than 1,000 children every day.

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation seeks to prevent pediatric HIV infection and to eradicate pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs.


Thanks to the generosity of donors like you, Riley Children’s Foundation annually grants more than $35 million to Riley Children’s Health, Riley-affiliated researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and Camp Riley.

Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing, or food, so they can focus on helping their child live, regardless of the duration or the cost of care. By 2030, our goal is to cure at least 60% of children with six of the most common kinds of cancer worldwide. With your support, St. Jude can provide cutting-edge treatment at no cost to families.

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