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From lifesaving medicine to safe drinking water, here's how you can help to save a life. 
Action, Give, Medicine 
Moms Matter: Make it Obvious. Winners Announced 
Acumen Fund, Search for the Obvious, Maternal Health 
Promoting Healthy Births: Update from a 2010 CGIU grant winner 
Action, Birthing Kits, Maternal & Child Health 
Preventing Maternal Mortality via Cell Phone: Saving women's lives in the Korogocho slums of Kenya  
Maternal Health, Kenya, Mobile Health 
Submissions closed! Stay tuned for an announcement of all winners to our "Moms Matter" Challenge 
Action, Search for the Obvious, Acumen Fund 
Bangladesh's children die at an alarming rate due to contaminated water.  
Bangladesh, Water, Water & Sanitation 
Slideshow--Severe Stunting: In Guatemala, 12 Years Old Going on 5 
Malnutrition, Maternal & Child Health, Guatemala 
LifeSpring Hospitals: Bringing Maternity Care to Poor Mothers in India 
Maternal & Child Health, India, Acumen Fund 
Bethlahem: A story from a woman on the frontlines of improving maternal care 
Maternal & Child Health, Acumen Fund, India 
Dr. Peter Rohloff explains the problem of stunted growth in Guatemala.  
Guatemala, Malnutrition, Nutrition 
Fortifying the fight against malnutrition has never been so easy. Discover what you can do.  
Action, Malnutrition, GAIN 
30 Hour Famine: Kids fast for 30 hours to raise money for the hungry in impoverished nations. 
Action, Hunger, Poverty 
'Text4Baby': A free text service gives practical information about pregnancy and childbirth. 
Action, Maternal & Child Health, text4baby 
Slideshow: Bangladesh: Water Water Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Drink 
Water & Sanitation, Slideshow, ABC News 
Add your voice: Help create a world where no child is born with HIV. 
Action, HIV/AIDS, ONE.org 
Your Dollars At Work: An update from JHPIEGO, training midwives in Afghanistan to save women's lives 
Action, Jhpiego, Maternal Health 
Severe Stunting: Malnourishment Threatens Growth, Mental Development of Guatemalan Children. 
Malnutrition, Guatemala, Hunger 
LifeSpring Hospitals Keep Infants Alive: Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO of Acumen Fund, on fighting infant mortality in India. 
Maternal & Child Health, India, Acumen Fund 
Global Malnutrition: Christiane Amanpour reports on a promising nutritional supplement. 
Malnutrition, Maternal & Child Health, Christiane Amanpour 
New Inventions Help Fight Diseases in the Developing World. 
Kenya, Camels, Vaccines 
Angelina Jolie's Mission: A scientist and a Hollywood superstar helping children in need. 
Angelina Jolie, Anne Goldfeld, Dan Harris 
Embrace CEO Jane Chen explains how the infant warmer 'sleeping bag' device works.  
Embrace, Maternal & Child Health, Elizabeth Vargas 

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