Rotary Give Every Child a Future
Vaccinating 100,000 Pacific island Children by 2021Rotary Give Every Child a Future is a Rotary Australasia centenary project to save lives by vaccinating 100,000 children across nine Pacific island countries against three diseases and to establish vaccination programs in each country.
To understand more go to their website ( Rotary Give Every Child a Future ) where they have excellent videos or read a little more below.
‘To prevent cervical cancer and save the lives of children in the Pacific’
More women die from cervical cancer in Pacific Island countries than in New Zealand or Australia and, in parts of the Pacific, nearly 1 in 16 children die before their 5th birthday from vaccine preventable diseases. We’re going to stop that!
To celebrate 100 years of Rotary in Australia and New Zealand, we’ve teamed up with UNICEF to give life-saving vaccines to 100,000 children across the Pacific. Rotary Give Every Child A Future is a sustainable project that will ensure generations of children and women are protected against cervical cancer, rotavirus and pneumococcal disease.
Despite improvements in vaccines programs, the poorest and hardest to reach children are still being left behind.
Diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea remain leading killers of children under five years and high rates of life-threatening cervical cancer continue to devastate Pacific Island families. Poor health systems, limited government resources, environmental challenges and families living in difficult to reach areas mean children are missing out on life-saving vaccines.
GOALS
To protect 100,000 children from rotavirus, pneumococcal disease and cervical cancer, across nine Pacific Island Countries: Nauru, Tuvalu, Samoa, Vanuatu, Tonga, Niue, Cook Islands, Kiribati and Tokelau over three years:
- HPV vaccine for girls to prevent cervical cancer in later life
- Rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccines for all children to reduce illness and deaths from gastroenteritis, pneumonias, meningitis and bacteraemia
To strengthen the immunisation programs in each country so that these vaccines continue to be delivered to future generations of children.