Baby Movember – Day 12

November 12, 2011 in Baby MOvember with 0 Comments

Day 12 of Baby Movember is World Pneumonia Day.

World Pneumonia Day

The Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia was established in April 2009 to raise awareness about the toll of pneumonia, the world’s leading killer of children, and to advocate for global action to protect against, effectively treat and help prevent this deadly disease.

The Coalition is a global network of more than 125 NGOs, community‐based organizations, academic institutions, government agencies and foundations who together provide leadership for World Pneumonia Day, marked each year on November 12 to encourage efforts to combat the disease among donors, policy makers, healthcare professionals and the general public.

 

How Can You Help?

Learn More About World Pneumonia Day at worldpneumoniaday.org

Baby Movember – Day 11

November 11, 2011 in Baby MOvember with 0 Comments

Baby Movember – Day 11

St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude’s Research Hospital Mission:

St. Jude is unlike any other pediatric treatment and research facility. Discoveries made here have completely changed how the world treats children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. With research and patient care under one roof, St. Jude is where some of today’s most gifted researchers are able to do science more quickly.

How Can You Help?

Learn More About St. Jude’s Research Hospital

 

Baby Movember – Day 10

November 10, 2011 in Baby MOvember with 0 Comments

Day 10 of Baby Movember – Operation Smile

operation smile

What is Operation Smile?

Operation Smile is an international children’s medical charity that heals children’s smiles, forever changing their lives.

As a children’s charity, we measure ourselves by the joy we see on all of the faces we help. At Operation Smile, we’re more than a charity. More than an NGO. We’re a mobilized force of medical professionals and caring hearts who provide safe, effective reconstructive surgery for children born with facial deformities such as cleft lip and cleft palate.

Every three minutes a child is born with a cleft — often unable to eat, speak, socialize or smile. In some places these children are shunned and rejected. And in too many cases, their parents can’t afford to give them the surgeries they need to live a normal life.

That’s where we come in as an international charity providing much needed surgical services. Since 1982, Operation Smile — through the help of dedicated medical volunteers — has provided more than 2 million patient evaluations and over 200,000 free surgeries for children and young adults born with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities.

As one of the most prominent children’s charities in the world and with a presence in over 60 countries, we are able to heal children’s smiles and bring hope for a better future.

Thanks to the generosity and spirit of volunteerism shown by our supporters, we heal thousands of children per year. With your help, how many lives can we change tomorrow?

 

How Can You Help?

Learn More About Operation Smile at: Operation Smile.org

Baby Movember – Day 9

November 9, 2011 in Baby MOvember with 0 Comments

Day 9 of Baby Movember

make a wish

The Mission of Make a Wish

We grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.

Watch this wish granted:

How Can You Help?

Learn More About Make a Wish Foundation at  Wish.org

 

 

Baby Movember – Day 8

November 8, 2011 in Baby Moustaches with 0 Comments

Day 8 of Baby Movember

childhelp

Childhelp’s Mission:

Childhelp® exists to meet the needs of abused, neglected and at-risk children. We focus our efforts on advocacy, prevention, treatment and community outreach.

How Can You Help?

Learn More About Childhelp at childhelp.org

Baby Movember – Day 7

November 7, 2011 in Baby MOvember with 0 Comments

Day 7 of Baby Movember!

ronald mcdonald houseWhat kid doesn’t love McDonalds?  Have you heard of the Ronald McDonald House?

Check out what this fantastic charity does:

From the Ronald McDonald House website:

Our Ronald McDonald House program provides a “home-away-from-home” for families so they can stay close by their hospitalized child at little or no cost.  Our Houses are built on the simple idea that nothing else should matter when a family is focused on healing their child – not where they can afford to stay, where they will get their next meal or where they will lay their head at night to rest.

Allow Families to Face the Weight of Illness Together

Families are stronger when they are together, which helps in the healing process. By staying at a Ronald McDonald House, parents also can better communicate with their child’s medical team and keep up with complicated treatment plans when needed. They can also focus on the health of their child, rather than grocery shopping, cleaning or cooking meals.

Allow Children to Get the Best Care

When your child is sick, you want the best care possible – even if it is hundreds or thousands of miles away.  The Ronald McDonald House allows families to access specialized medical treatment by providing a place to stay at little or sometimes no cost.

Here is How You Can Help:

Learn More About Ronald McDonald House Charities

Baby Movember – Day 6

November 6, 2011 in Baby MOvember with 0 Comments

Day 6 of Baby Movember

world vision

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization that works with children and their families and communities worldwide  - tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. of poverty and injustice.

 

How Can You Help?

Learn More About World Vision at WorldVision.org


Baby Movember – Day 5

November 5, 2011 in Baby MOvember with 0 Comments

Day 5 – Baby Movember

Invisible Children

Introducing Invisible Children

Learn About Invisible Children

 

About Invisible Children – from their website:

We are story tellers. We make documentaries about war-affected children in east Africa and tour them around the world.

We use the power of media to inspire young people to help end the longest running war in Africa. Our model has proven effective, and hundreds of thousands of people have been called to action through our films and the volunteers that tour them.

We are made up of a tireless staff, hundreds of full time volunteers, and thousands of students and supporters. We are young, we are citizens of the world, we are artists, activists, and entrepreneurs. This fall, we are using our voice to ask President Obama to spearhead efforts to bring peace to Northern Uganda. We are mobilizing a generation to capture the attention of the international community, and make a stand for justice in the wake of genocide.

But our work extends far beyond storytelling.

With the support we receive from our tours and young supporters, we are able to implement cutting edge programs on the ground in Uganda. To prioritize and understand the needs of the community, our Uganda staff is 95% Ugandan. We focus on long-term development, working directly with individuals and institutions, to best understand the needs of these war-effected areas. We rebuild schools devastated by war, benefiting over 8,400 Ugandan youth in the areas of water and sanitation, books and equipment, refurbishment of structures, teacher support, and technology and power. We provide 690 scholarships to specifically chosen secondary students and 180 full ride scholarships to University. We employ mentors that holistically oversee healthy development for our students. We have also implemented micro-economic initiatives that are impacting 360 Ugandan’s in transition from internally displaced camps to their original homes as well as 13 formerly abducted child mothers who are now self-sufficient through our tailoring center that provides training in savings, investment, numeracy, literacy and health. These savings-and-loans initiatives have allowed villagers to save money and earn interest for the first time, freeing them to start their own businesses and provide for their families like never before.

How Can You Help?

Learn More About Invisible Children

Baby Movember – Day 4

November 4, 2011 in Baby MOvember with 0 Comments

Hello Day 4 of Baby Movember! Learn about this great organization helping children – meet Imagination Library!

 

Dolly Parton maybe known for uhmm. other things (singing people.) – but she has a HUGE heart for kids and children’s literacy. Through Imagination Library, Dolly Parton wants to Foster reading in young children and families. Her program Imagination Library works with Penguin Group USA (a publisher) to send books to children each month until the child turns 5. She wants to insure that every child would have books, regardless of their family’s income.

How Does Imagination Library Work?

From the Imagination Librarywebsite:

A community must make the program accessible to all preschool children in their area. The community pays for the books and mailing, promotes the program, registers the children, and enters the information into the database. From there The Dollywood Foundation takes over and manages the system to deliver the books to the home. You can find out more of the operational details on other pages in this website – so what are you waiting for! Hundreds of communities are providing books to hundreds of thousands of children.

Learn More About Imagination Library

Baby Movember – Day 3

November 3, 2011 in Baby MOvember with 0 Comments

Baby Movember continues – introducing you to a new charity or social giving cause each day in November that strives to help children or maternal care.

Cradles to Crayons

Cradles to Crayons

Our vision is that one day every child will have the essentials they need to feel safe, warm, ready to learn and valued. Through the Giving Factory, we provide those essentials, as donated clothes, shoes, books and school supplies to homeless and low-income children. We also offer meaningful volunteer opportunities to hundreds of corporations and thousands of individuals and families each year.

How Can You Help?

Learn More About Cradles to Crayons at: cradlestocrayons.org

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