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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Terre des hommes wins the Balzan Prize: one million Swiss francs for newborn children
Terre des hommes wins the Balzan Prize: one million Swiss francs for newborn children
What if vulnerable children were to become your heirs?
At the Colombia-Venezuela border, “the needs are huge and the humanitarian response is almost non-existent”
What if vulnerable children were to become your heirs?
At the Colombia-Venezuela border, “the needs are huge and the humanitarian response is almost non-existent”
At the Colombia-Venezuela border, “the needs are huge and the humanitarian response is almost non-existent”
Rohingya crisis: Where are we one year later?
Rohingya crisis: Where are we one year later?
Humanitarian aid workers where children need them most
Humanitarian aid workers where children need them most
Switzerland needs to do more to end child immigration detention
Switzerland needs to do more to end child immigration detention
Behind the scenes at Geneva airport
Behind the scenes at Geneva airport
Migrant children at risk of trafficking: Tdh takes action!
Migrant children at risk of trafficking: Tdh takes action!
Iraq: education as a step towards recovery
Terre des hommes wins the Balzan Prize: one million Swiss francs for newborn children
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
