Warrensburg Joins Local Coalitions Across America on Campaign to Improve Child Health and Survival Worldwide

Warrensburg Joins Local Coalitions Across America on Campaign to Improve Child Health and Survival Worldwide

WARRENSBURG, Mo., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- A coalition of local media, health organizations, universities, and faith-based institutions in Warrensburg have joined with 30 other communities across the country in an effort to increase awareness of the 11 million children who die each year worldwide (pbs.org/rxforsurvival/campaign).

As part of WGBH/Boston and Vulcan Productions' Rx for Child Survival(TM), a nationwide mobilization campaign created by WGBH/PBS Boston and Vulcan Productions, KMOS has partnered with Western Missouri Community Health Services and the Johnson County Community Health Clinic to form this unprecedented coalition. The organizations are working in their communities to increase awareness about global health, encourage donations to child health programs, and advocate for increased government funding for global child health and survival.

The coalition anticipates over 400 attendees at an upcoming seminar on October 29th for licensed day care providers in Springfield being organized by the Missouri Department of Health. The campaign will be introduced to the audience by a representative from the Johnson County Community Health Clinic who will highlight issues of child health and survival. Later this Spring, on March 22, the coalition partners will also be participating in the Central Missouri State University health and wellness fair, an annual effort to create awareness of health issues, better personal health habits and other related topics.

"We are building a grassroots movement to educate the public about the preventable deaths of millions of children across the world," states Deryck Spooner, national campaigns manager at the Global Health Council. The Council is also calling on the U.S. government to nearly double funding for global child health in the coming fiscal year.

The Rx for Child Survival campaign was created by WGBH and Vulcan Productions to coincide with their far-reaching multimedia project Rx for Survival-A Global Health Challenge(TM) anchored by a six-part television series airing November 1-3, 2005 on PBS stations across the country. Major funding for the project was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Merck Company Foundation.

http://www.pbs.org/rxforsurvival/campaignhttp://www.globalhealth.org/http://www.pbs.org/http://www.vulcanproductions.com/

CONTACT: Mariah Richardson-Osgood of Global Health Council, +1-202-833-5900 x3213, mrichardson-osgood@globalhealth.org; or Rosemary Olas of the Local Coalition, +1-660-543-4132, rolas@cmsu1.cmsu.edu.

Source: Global Health Council

CONTACT: Mariah Richardson-Osgood of Global Health Council,
+1-202-833-5900 x3213, mrichardson-osgood@globalhealth.org; or Rosemary Olas
of the Local Coalition, +1-660-543-4132, rolas@cmsu1.cmsu.edu

Web site: http://www.globalhealth.org/
http://www.pbs.org/rxforsurvival/campaign
http://www.vulcanproductions.com/
http://www.pbs.org/

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