Over the last 10 Days ICROSS has been conducting a district wide Maasai land campaigns which has covered thousands of kilometers. This was one of the largest measles campaigns of its kind ever conducted in Maasai land vaccinating 100s of children whose lives were threaten measles, together with Ministry of health and ministry of Public Health ICROSS teams reached remote areas throughout the south Rift Valley on the Kenyan Tanzanian border. The International director of ICROSS Dr. Michael Meegan congratulated the ICROSS/MOH Mobile unit which worked 16 hours days targeting remote areas devastated by drought with malnutrition worsening the effects of measles. This is a critical part of ICROSS child survival program. With over 140,000 measles deaths every year most of this happen in Africa. Dr. Meegan who has worked among the Maasai for over 30 years in ICROSS programmes said that "measles vaccinations have resulted In a 74% reduction of measles deaths between 2000 ad 2010 worldwide" He said " When ICROSS began its work in 1980 before the international measles campaign there were 2.6 Million deaths per year because of measles” Dr. Meegan explained that severe measles is common in malnourished children “the majority of deaths are caused by complications. In our programs these are usually severe diarrhea, dehydration and respiratory infections” Dan Ngwiri thanked the ICROSS teams and noted “Over 20 Million people are affected by measles every year, most of the suffering is here in Africa”. In keeping with WHO measles elimination goals, ICROSS extended its monitoring and surveillance systems together with our colleagues in the Ministry of health, we are developing rapid response systems to outbreaks as part of our maternal child health programmes “ (Catherine Conlan maternal child health program). ICROSS country director said that the ICROSS strategy “is designed around the WHO eradication campaign” and that "We are working with our partners towards the WHO 2015 measles goals” https://icrossinaction.com/donate.html Saruni Ole Lengeny head of ICROSS pastoral programs said “We are working with the people and our research programmes from a background with ICROSS of 30 years immunisation programmes” The measles campaigns covered the whole district not only ICROSS medical ad clinical areas the head of the research team will continue to focus on the development needed “ to support cost effective action ad improve vaccination” (WHO measles campaign component 5) Please donate and support this essential campaign saving children's lives. You can help these children through https://icrossinaction.com/donate.html