Health & Disability Healthcare Essentials Over 400 million children have no access to safe water. Without access to clean water and proper sanitation, disease spreads and health suffers.Lack of clean water also leads to malnutrition as families do not have enough water to grow healthy foods. Malnutrition in early childhood can stunt growth, and hinder brain development and children’s capacity to learn. This reduces their ability to develop skills that are critical to their life chances and development.Improving the health of children is one responsibility among many in the fight against poverty. Healthy children become healthy adults who create better lives for themselves, their communities and their countries.It doesn’t take much to save a child’s life in the developing world!By providing mosquito nets and medicine, children’s lives will be saved from the devastating effects of malaria and other diseases.Without the essentials of life, like good nutrition, children are made vulnerable. Through Children in Crisis – Health & Disability, World Vision is working to bring quality healthcare to children and families in need and to support those with disabilities.
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