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Dear Friends of Children for Health, A HUGE welcome to members of my ‘Life Skills’ community. Many in the Children for Health community will know that before I set up CfH I set up a website called ‘Life Skills Handbooks’, where I posted ideas, lesson plans, news and resources to

Join us! Join the Children for Health 100 Support Team! Clare with her friend and mentor Hugh Hawes on 2013 at the launch of Children for Health. I had all sorts of fancy ideas for this appeal and examined carefully many of the mechanisms that professional fundraising departments in the

We are delighted to publish our new Diarrhoea prevention and control poster – this is one of our key 10 topics. There is growing evidence that children are dying unnecessarily due to failure of parents or health workers to provide basic rehydration for children with acute diarrhoea. For example, a recent

Did you know that you can generate donations while you shop this Black Friday? Whenever you buy anything from Amazon they will donate a portion of that sale to us via the Smile programme. It is the easiest way for you to give and it means we can keep creating

This is a single activity session plan from The Lifeskills Handbook. There are 61 activity sessions in this book and this is Activity 2. The book is available from our resources section where you’ll also find downloadable story books, booklets and posters to help you in your work. LifeSkills Handbooks

This is a single activity session plan from The Lifeskills Handbook. There are 61 activity sessions in this book and this is Activity 1. The book is available from our resources section where you’ll also find downloadable story books, booklets and posters to help you in your work. LifeSkills Handbooks

As you have noticed, we’ve been translating our 100 messages for children to learn and share into other langages. We’ve been working with the wonderful people at Translators without Borders and some really tremendous volunteers from all over the world. From time to time though, we’ll hear from people who

We are very pleased to announce that our booklets with 100 health messages in 18 languages are now available to download from our website. Each language has its own booklet covering following ten topics, each with ten health messages:Caring for Babies & Young ChildrenCoughs, Colds & PneumoniaImmunisationMalariaDiarrhoeaWater, Sanitation & HygieneNutritionIntestinal WormsAccidents

We are very pleased to launch our new story book, The Four Friends. This is a little different from our other more topic-focused books. In this one we have created a story that is about children’s participation in health education and health promotion more broadly. We have collaborated with others,

We are absolutely delighted to be launching the Eye Health and VisionPoster. This is the next in our series of Children for Health posters. The development of the two-sided poster was supported by Peek Vision. Their experts helped us to design and review twenty eye health and vision messages. These