Why Community Health?

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A community health approach:

 

  • Builds partnerships with local people and institutions to create resources within a community
  • Improves health provider skills
  • Strengthens health systems
  • Builds links between communities and formal health systems
  • Promotes the use of volunteers for delivery of information, training, and care

     

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Help CORE Group Advance Community Health

Across the globe, millions of children die unnecessarily each year from common, easily preventable illnesses such as diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, measles, and newborn infections or from malnutrition.  Hundreds of thousands of women die in childbirth each year due to lack of quality care.  It doesn’t have to be this way.  An estimated six million of these women, newborns and children could be saved annually through existing, proven, low-cost health solutions.  Our challenge is to deliver these solutions to parents, children and communities in the world’s poorest regions.


The CORE Group is uniquely positioned to bridge this gap by helping governments and NGOs effectively reach the community level, integrate community strategies into the national health plan, and respond to new and emerging health issues that arise.  Since 1997, we have fostered partnerships around the world to provide mothers, fathers and community leaders with the skills and knowledge they need to improve the health of children.

Our goal is to ensure that health practitioners have the latest information, most practical tools, shared lessons learned, up-to-date skills, and synergistic partnerships in order to keep mothers healthy during pregnancy, deliver babies safely, have access to medicines that treat pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria, receive vaccines against life-threatening diseases, and have access to nutritious foods for growing children.  We also harvest knowledge from the field, transforming it into new, innovative tools and practices that in turn, enhance women and children survival and well-being.

HOw To Donate to CORE Group

1. Online/Credit Card- Via Paypal

2. By Check
Please send checks to:
Julia Blencowe, Executive Assistant
CORE Group
1100 G St., NW Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005
Checks should be made out to "CORE Inc." 

 3. Combined Federal Campagin

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CORE Group is participating in the 2009 Combined Federal Campaign.  CFC Code: 88110

 
 

Nutrition An After Thought?

A 2008 Lancet series categorized nutrition as an “after thought” in development priorities.

To address this and catalyze action among policy makers, a consortia of partners, including the World Bank, UNICEF, WHO, WFP, and  a range of developing country partners, CSOs and bilateral agencies developed a policy brief, Scaling Up Nutrition: A Framework for Action. The brief outlines key considerations, principles and priorities needed to address under-nutrition.

Learn more about Scaling Up Nutrition: A Framework for Action

Read the policy brief 

Endorse the Framework for Action

Endorsement by your organizations will help to demonstrate the broad consensus among nutrition experts and advocates about what is needed now to address maternal and child under-nutrition.

Send us your organization's logo by March 15, 2010 to contact  'at' coregroupdc.org

Learn More about CORE Group's upcoming spring meeting session on nutrition.

 
 
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