This is IJ, as drawn by herself, happy, smiling, with the world at her feet and more opportunities than some children could ever imagine. Which is where #passiton comes in.
To help highlight the fact that eight million children a year are still dying from preventable diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea, Save the Children are launching their vaccination campaign. They will be taking three bloggers/ vloggers including Chris Mosler from Thinly Spread to Mozambique to follow the journey of a vaccine from the cold store in the city right down to a rural community . We can follow their journey via social media by using the hashtag #passiton.
Having seen for myself the challenges faced by women and children in living in the developing world, and having heard about the preventable deaths caused by a lack of medicines we take for granted here, supporting this cause is something I am passionate about. Through our blogs and social media platforms we are in a position to help spread the world as the No Child Born to Die campaign shifts its focus for the next few weeks to vaccination programmes in developing countries.
How we can help
We can help support the trip by spreading word of the campaign and getting people to sign the petition to put pressure on the government leaders to meet the funding shortfall for vaccines at a conference in June.
You can also take part in Red Ted Art’s crafty meme. If you’re not tagged at the end of this post, why not have a go anyway and tag eight more bloggers.
Here’s what you have to do:
1) Get your child to either draw or craft a self-portrait of themselves now or in the future, perhaps imagining what they will look like or what they might do.
2) Sign the Save the Children petition and share news of it with your friends.
3) Come back and join the linky on Josie’s Sleep is for the Weak blog or over at Red Ted Art.
4) Tag 8 bloggers to do the same.
I’m tagging:
Now Pass It On! #passiton
Great painting and fabulous idea! I've just posted my daughter's drawing. This is such an important campaign and I hope it gets richly rewarded with funding to make a real difference x
Posted by: Sarah | May 24, 2011 at 08:21 AM
Oh that is a fabulous painting! I am very impressed! Perfect!
Thank you very much for the thoughtful post, the great art and for supporting Save The Children and Chris on their quest!!
Maggy
Posted by: maggy, red ted art | May 24, 2011 at 01:06 PM
thanks for the tag, post will be up tomorrow!
Posted by: Susanna | May 26, 2011 at 02:21 PM
I've posted, thank you for the tag x
Posted by: Sandy Calico | May 30, 2011 at 07:31 PM