Take Five

The latest Take Five from Micah Challenge is on child health. The fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is to reduce the under-five child mortality rate by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015.

Take Five enables us to get information about this MDG, pray about, take action on it, share a story about it and invite friends to help.

Additional prayer points include:

• Give thanks for the recent progress made in many countries to reduce child mortality rates. For example, the implementation of community health worker programmes in Bangladesh has had a very positive effect on child health.
• Pray for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) care and support to reach more pregnant women, so that babies are protected from contracting the virus at birth.
• Lift up in prayer the millions of children suffering with illnesses like measles, diarrhoea and TB which are so easily prevented or treated in richer countries. Pray for an increase in International Aid from the G8 to tackle this crucial issue.
• Pray for all of the world leaders in attendance at the 2008 G8 Summit, including UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, that they will resolve to fulfil their commitments to combating extreme poverty - and issue a detailed timetable indicating how they plan to do so.

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Martyn Joseph - This Fragile World.