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Health | Nutrition | Education | Water and Sanitation | Emergencies | Other ways to support
 A Little Goes A Long Way
Health
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 10 cents =
One packet of oral rehydration salts (ORS) to protect against diarrhoeal
dehydration, which can cause death. |
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$ 1.23
One foetal stethoscope. |
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$ 15
The average cost of vaccines, syringes, needles, cold chain equipment and health workers'
training and salaries needed to immunize one child against the 6 major childhood diseases. |
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$ 25
will provide enough oral rehydration salts to treat and restore 150 children
suffering from severe diarrhoeal dehydration. |
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$ 31.75
One insulated portable vaccine carrier to maintain the potency of 500 doses of vaccine. |
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$ 45
will provide a heavy duty bicycle rugged enough to enable a midwife or health
worker to reach remote villages over rough terrain |
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$ 400
will provide enough vaccine to immunize 1,600 children against the child-killing
diseases of diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus |
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$ 800
will provide refrigerated storage with back-up power supply for 50,000 doses of
vaccine |
Nutrition
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7 cents
Three vitamin A capsules to protect a child against blindness and other health risks from
vitamin A deficiency for one year. |
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$ 1
Half a pound of pea seeds or three packets of lettuce seeds for a community garden. |
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$ 100
will provide enough Vitamin A capsules to protect 2,500 children from blindness
caused by Vitamin A deficiency |
Education
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$ 1.61
A box of 144 sticks of dustless chalk. |
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$ 21.49
One primary school teacher's set of supplies. |
Water and
sanitation
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$ 10
One plastic latrine pan and outlet pipe to provide safe sanitation for a family. |
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$
150
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Hand pump, pipes and accessories for equipping a shallow
well to serve an entire village with clean safe water; to benefit up to 250 people. |
Emergencies |
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$ 4.15
One blanket. |
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$ 131
One 'school-in-a-box' kit, with materials for a teacher and 40 primary school students. |
