Hi Marilyn,

The United States helped reduce child mortality significantly from 1960 to 1990, but has let funding fall by 20 percent in the last 10 years.

We cannot let this trend continue, as 28,000 children die every day from a preventable or treatable disease>> http://go.care2.com/e/R9kk/iiEN/UZ7K

Our goal for this petition is 28,000 signatures, symbolic of this statistic. This equates to about ten million children under five each year. They're not dying from mysterious, incurable diseases, but from diarrhea, pneumonia, malnutrition and other causes that would be unthinkable in our own country.

Effective and affordable tools exist that could prevent the deaths of millions of children each year. Immunizations, antibiotics, clean drinking water and vitamin supplements are a few of the simple interventions that we know can save lives.

Members of Congress have stepped up and introduced the Global Child Survival Act. This legislation would recommit the United States to improving children's health by expanding funding for proven solutions like immunizations and antibiotics.

Please tell your representatives in Congress to support the Global Child Survival Act today!

Once again we have another important issue regarding our children of the world! I just can't understand why our children can not be taken care of better than they are. God provides enough of everything for all people to be taken care of properly if we would all start caring about the next human being. This is really a shame that the last 10 years there has been a 20% decline of funds from previous years! Shame on all of those concerned! Start thinking about these children as if they are your very own, and then perhaps things will change!

Please do what you can to help out! Our children need us to help them. Thank you.

God Bless All of Us,

Love, Marilyn