About Their Projects
Helping Children Survive and Thrive
The Child Health Site is proud to be partnered with four nonprofit organizations that are reaching out to some of our most vulnerable world citizens: children. Their proven programs benefit from your actions at The Child Health Site.
Learn more about the work we are achieving together by reading specific project information from our partner organizations below. To be taken directly to the section about the work of any of our partners, click here:
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Helen Keller International Mercy Corps Prosthetics Outreach Foundation
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation www.pedaids.org
Founded in 1988, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation has a three-star Charity Navigator rating and is dedicated to preventing pediatric HIV infection and eradicating pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs. With some 2.3 million children under the age of 15 living with HIV, their work is desperately needed.1
"Every child deserves a lifetime."
—Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
In 2000, the Foundation established the Call to Action Project to bring simplified regimens for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV to families in developing countries. This program represents a cornerstone of the FoundationÂs International Family AIDS Initiatives. As of January of 2007, the Foundation is working in 17 countries and has reached more than 3.2 million women with access to services to prevent transmission of HIV from mothers to babies. More than 2.5 million women have been tested for HIV through their programs.
Helen Keller International www.hki.org
Founded in 1915, Helen Keller International is among the oldest international nonprofit organizations devoted to fighting and treating preventable blindness and malnutrition. HKI has programs in 22 countries around the world. The goal of all HKI programs is to reduce suffering of those without access to needed health or vision care and, ultimately, to help lift people from poverty.
Helen Keller International is committed to preventing and treating primary causes of blindness in children through its proven programs, which include providing vitamin A supplements and facilitating surgeries to reverse trachoma and cataract. According to HKI: