ICROSS child survival sept 2011

As the tragic suffering of children continues in semi desert areas of
East Africa, ICROSS teams battle against dehydration, malnutrition and
needless suffering. Saruni OleLengeny works with community health
workers making sure children do not fall below safe body weight.
Together with Gerry Coogan and friends ICROSS is following high risk
children in remote villages who do not eat because there is no food.

Metaei is a 6 year old girl who ate less than a handful of rice a day
for the last three weeks, now seriously below weight she is one of the
many children being helped in the drought response programme. We need
your help to save lives today and protect vulnerable children from
becoming seriously ill. ICROSS Founder Michael Meegan said today "We
are also protecting water sources and appealing for help to ensure
families have enough water to drink, a huge problem is that the
existing water is contaminated and the Maasai have lost many of their
water holes, the remaining ones are often causes of diarrhoea, The
biggest killer of children is often diarrhoeal infections" We need
your help to extend emergency support to the growing number of
children who are falling below safe weight.

ICROSS has worked among these communities for almost thirty years. you
can help us today by supporting our projects at
www.icross-africa.net.


Michael Elmore-Meegan MSc Community Health TCD
D Med HC NUI FRAMI
Founder, International Director ICROSS
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