Misson
Infant Health Watch will facilitate fund raising from individuals and organizations who believe in enhancing infant health and support programs /projects including “community based/family based approaches to promote breastfeeding and complementary feeding”, “research to enhance breastfeeding among women” and “ skill building”.
The charity will work on principles of avoidance of all conflicts of interests in its efforts to facilitate fund raising.
Why Its Needed
29,000 children under the age of five – 21 each minute – die every day, mainly from preventable causes. (Source UNICEF)
Malnutrition has been responsible, directly or indirectly, for 60% of the 10.9 million deaths annually among children under five. Well over two-thirds of these deaths, which are often associated with inappropriate feeding practices, occur during the first year of life. (Source WHO 2003)
One of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) number 4, is to reduce Child Mortality by 2/3rd by 2015. (http://www.mdgmonitor.org/goal4.cfm) This would only be possible if infant mortality and newborn mortality is reduced especially in countries where there is highest burden.