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10/29/2005

World Relief Promotes Rx for Survival Documentary

BALTIMORE, Oct. 28 /Christian Wire Service/ -- World Relief encourages viewers to watch the November 1st premier of "Rx for Survival". Maryland Public Television will air the 6-part PBS documentary that assesses the current state of global health. Focusing on children, the "Rx for Child Survival" outreach campaign zeroes in on an area of global health in which each of us can make a dramatic and positive difference.

In the developing world, more than 30,000 children die every day from hunger or easily-preventable illnesses. Malnutrition leads to half of all childhood deaths in poor countries. Approximately 13,500 children die each day from four common, curable illnesses -- pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and measles. Most childhood deaths are the direct effect of extreme poverty and lack of basic health knowledge. Poverty often leads to hunger, hunger to sickness, and sickness to death.

World Relief's child survival ministry is saving thousands of lives in impoverished nations around the world through low-cost, high-impact solutions. As a member of the CORE Group, World Relief serves as an outreach partner for this groundbreaking documentary. The CORE Group is a membership association of 38 international non-governmental organizations whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of children and women in developing countries through collaborative action and learning.

To learn more about World Relief's Child Survival program, the countries in which we work and to download the Child Survival Action Guide, created by Save the Children, please visit www.worldrelief.org.

In the United States and 24 countries around the world, World Relief has worked with local churches to create sustainable solutions that help the desperately poor. World Relief's programs include disaster relief, refugee and immigrant assistance, AIDS ministries, community health, agricultural development and community banking.