Save the Children Canada

$20,000,000.00 CAD

≈ $0.48 for every person in Canada ≈ 260 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
Global Affairs Canada
Program
Recipient country
Malawi
Fiscal year
2008-2009
Agreement period
March 19, 2009 – April 30, 2013
Project status
Closed
Reference
CA-3-M012954001

Published purpose

The project aims to reduce the number of deaths among children under the age of five by delivering life saving treatments for malaria and pneumonia in hard to reach communities. Project activities focus on training and supervising community health workers to effectively recognize the symptoms of malaria and pneumonia, as well as diagnose and treat these childhood diseases. In addition, the project is procuring treatments to ensure community health workers in hard to reach communities have ready access to the necessary drugs to address malaria and pneumonia. This project is being implemented in Mozambique, Malawi and South Sudan.

In plain English AI-generated

This project reduces child deaths from malaria and pneumonia by training community health workers and providing treatments in Mozambique, Malawi, and South Sudan.

Category: Health Primarily funds activity outside Canada

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