Rotary makes high-quality health care available to vulnerable mothers and children so they can live longer and grow stronger.
We expand access to quality care, so mothers and children everywhere can have the same opportunities for a healthy future. An estimated 5.9 million children under the age of five die each year because of malnutrition, inadequate health care, and poor sanitation — all of which can be prevented.
How Rotary makes help happen
Rotary provides education, immunizations, birth kits, and mobile health clinics. Women are taught how to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, how to breast-feed, and how to protect themselves and their children from disease.
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Healing scars of war
In the mountains of Poland, 26 children traumatized by violence get a chance to be kids again at Rotary camp where psychologists mix escape and therapy.
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Sustainable programs
Rotary programs improve women’s access to skilled health personnel: doctors, nurses, midwives, or community health care workers.
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Clean births
Rotary members distribute clean birth kits and train health workers in safe delivery of babies.
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Keeping children alive during their first year
Rotary members teach mothers how to breast-feed, promote immunizations and regular checkups, and distribute insecticide-treated bed nets.
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Telemedicine
Through the use of technology, doctors are bringing health care to women and children living in rural Nigeria.
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Lifesaving Hospital Equipment
Clubs in Japan and Brazil used a Rotary Foundation global grant to equip a hospital with lifesaving neonatal equipment.