Halcyon Identifies

 

Small doses of vitamins could make a huge positive difference to the world’s health, especially if focused on the most important period in anyone’s nutritional life - i.e. the first 1,000 days.

 

Vaccines have saved the lives of millions worldwide, yet still, in 2009, in low-income countries, two out of five deaths in children under five were due to pneumonia or diarrhoea.

  

Leading multinationals have joined the UN in a bid to end hunger and malnutrition among children in developing countries.

 

Though the total is nearly 30% percent lower than in 1990, about 24,000 under-fives still die each day worldwide.

The open-source education software developed for the "$100 laptop" can now be loaded onto a $5 USB stick to run ageing PCs and Macs, breathing new lfe into millions of decrepit old machines.

A group of former child soldiers and survivors of armed conflict have launched the Network of Young People Affected by War to help similarly affected children become artists, activists, authors...whatever they wish. 

1.9 billion of the world's 2.2 billion children live in developing countries.  1 billion live in poverty.  640 million children are without adequate shelter.  Up to 10.6 million children die each year before they reach the age of five.

More than 30 winners of the Nobel Peace Prize have called for urgent action to implement quality education and build peace in conflict-affected countries, setting the classroom as the stage for conflict transformation.

• Childhood/Education - an estimated 90 million+ children aged 6-11 around the world still have no chance of getting a proper education.

• Childhood/Poverty - the worldwide mortality rate of children under five continues to decline, but malnutrition remains a major problem among women and children.