Just $40 will help save 400 children’s lives

Amos is close to death and couldn’t cry even if he wanted to.

Amos is weak, exhausted and listless. His little body has been drained of the fluids and salts he needs for life. Amos is so dehydrated that he cannot even produce tears.

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Amos is dehydrated from diarrhoea

Dehydration will kill over 4,000 children in the next 24 hours. And without our help, millions of distraught parents in developing countries have no way to make their children well again – though a simple, life-saving treatment exists.

It’s called Oral Rehydration Therapy. It’s a mixture of salt and sugar that, when added to water and sipped, is the only way to ger the body of a severely dehydrated child to absorb the water it needs to survive.

A single sachet costs just 10 cents

Dehydration from diarrhoea kills 1.5 million children every year, 80 per cent of them under two years old. This can’t be right when the solution is so cheap and so simple. Suddenly, 10 cents is extraordinarily valuable.

No child should die from dehydration. And no parent should have to go through the agony of watching their child die when the solution is so easy and costs just 10 cents.

At just 10 cents it’s so easy to make a difference. Just $40 will help save 400 children’s lives. 

UNICEF has been working for 20 years to bring Oral Rehydration Therapy to children in need. In fact, we’re the world’s largest Oral Rehydration Therapy provider. 

Your gift will help us boost stocks of these life-giving sachets and give training to health workers and parents on how and when they should be used.

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Click here to read The Christchurch Press' story about Oral Rehydration Therapy.