Arms Down to Save More Children from Dengue
Mothers weeping are a common scene nowadays as dengue fever is taking the lives of children living in Philippine provinces. These are infants, toddlers – kids mostly below the age of 10.
While a bullet-and-blood-filled-hostage-drama is taking place in Manila, a record high of 40,000 cases of Dengue (48% higher in 2009) continues to rise killing children in ill-equipped hospitals and health centers in both urban and rural areas.
When will we start saving lives?
Reducing child mortality globally is one among the Millenium Development Goals. Accessible and efficient healthcare services are keys to the solution. The World Health Organization needs international support in order for them to provide what is necessary to start saving lives. And so we need to act now.
Arms Down to end War. Hands up to give Healthcare.
To give chance to lives, instead of losing them in war and nuclear destruction, the Arms Down Philippines campaign is set to raise 1 million signatures (50 million worldwide) to petition the UN to cut military spending and hand it over to development projects here in the Philippines – healthcare included.
Internationally, Arms Down.net brings together the religions for peace to work out a signature campaign project. Signatures from people of different races and places all over the globe are meant to ask all governments to make an official pledge to cut their military budgets by 10%. This will then be re-allocated to funds toward the millennium development goals.
If we do not want to see another baby dying of Dengue, if we do not want another helpless mother losing her child to a deadly mosquito bite, then take your stand to save lives!
Join Arms Down Philippines signature campaign!
