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NY Times Op-Ed -- child survival/UNICEF
Dear friends -- You may have missed the op-ed piece in the Times the other day. Here's a quote from it that I think all will appreciate:
“The number of children who die worldwide each year before the age of five has dropped below 10 million for the first time in recorded history — compared with 20 million annually in 1960 — Unicef noted in a report last month, “Child Survival.” Now the goal is to cut the death toll to four million by 2015.
Think about that accomplishment: The lives of 10 million children saved each year, 100 million lives per decade.
To put it another way, the late James P. Grant, a little-known American aid worker who headed Unicef from 1980 to 1995 and launched the child survival revolution with vaccinations and diarrhea treatments, probably saved more lives than were destroyed by Hitler, Mao and Stalin combined.”
– NYTimes Op-Ed column by NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, March 6, 2008
Some light for dark times.
Warm regards, Robert Cohen