Children’s health
At Terre des hommes, one of our priorities is to ensure that children and their mothers benefit from proper healthcare. As a result, we have launched a number of innovative projects in this field. They reflect our broader mission to improve access to medical care, water and sanitation in the most underprivileged communities worldwide.
Fields of intervention
MOTHER AND CHILD HEALTH
Healthy mothers are much more likely to have healthy children. We provide healthcare and advice to mothers during pregnancy and childbirth.
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WASH
Improving sanitary conditions and hygiene is a vital part of our mother and child health projects and our work in humanitarian emergency situations.
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SPECIALISED CARE
Terre des hommes arranges for disadvantaged children, particularly children suffering from heart defects, to be transferred to Europe for medical treatment or surgery.
See more...As a mother, I am constantly wondering: where will this child be in five years' time? As a doctor, I am more concerned about the social consequences. It is this combination of emotions and pragmatism that makes Tdh capable of making a difference.
Charulata Banerjee, Regional advisor to Tdh on health programmes in Asia
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Iraq: education as a step towards recovery
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J4C2018: “The Congress is the beginning of a solid movement”
Urgent: Recommendations for the Reunification of Separated Children with their Families
Urgent: Recommendations for the Reunification of Separated Children with their Families
The trauma caused by migration
The trauma caused by migration
Egypt: football offers a future for refugee children
Egypt: football offers a future for refugee children
Asia: Tackling child labour in the cotton industry
Asia: Tackling child labour in the cotton industry
Aid provided to record numbers of children in humanitarian crises in 2017
Aid provided to record numbers of children in humanitarian crises in 2017
Panama: an adapted justice for children
Panama: an adapted justice for children
Social media to protect child migrants
Iraq: education as a step towards recovery
Related publications
Making an impact for children: Annual Report 2017
Courage no. 57 - Can digital technology save lives?
Thematic Policy - Mother and Child Health
Specialised care programme - Annual Report 2016
Thematic policy - Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
