An estimated 5.9 million children under the age of five die each year because of malnutrition, inadequate health care, and poor sanitation — all of which can be prevented.
We expand access to quality care, so mothers and children everywhere can have the same opportunities for a healthy future.
Rotary makes high-quality health care available to vulnerable mothers and children.
Rotary provides education, immunizations, birth kits, and mobile health clinics. Women are taught how to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, how to breast-feed, and how to protect themselves and their children from disease.
The Rotary Foundation reaches mothers and children in need by giving communities the help and training they need to take control of their own maternal and infant health care.
Rotary Saves Mothers and Children Worldwide
Mobile prenatal clinics
Haiti has the highest maternal and infant mortality rate of any country in the western hemisphere. Rotary provided a fully equipped medical Jeep to volunteers and midwives to reach mothers and children in remote areas.
Clean births
Rotary members distribute clean birth kits and train health workers in safe delivery of babies.
Cancer and other health screenings
Rotarians provided a mobile cancer screening unit and awareness trainings around Chennai, India, where there is a high mortality rate of women with breast and cervical cancer due to late diagnosis.
Lifesaving hospital equipment
Clubs in Japan and Brazil used a Rotary Foundation global grant to equip a hospital with lifesaving neonatal equipment.
Preventing injuries and deaths
Rotary members launched a $3 million, five-year pilot to save lives of mothers and children during home deliveries in Nigeria. Since 2005, we’ve also repaired 1,500 obstetric fistulas — 500 more than the initial goal — restoring dignity and hope to vulnerable mothers.
Maternal and Child Health Projects of the Rotary Club of Irvine
With your help we can make a bigger impact locally and abroad.
Support your Firefighters
When natural disasters strike such as the Airport Fire, which burned more than 20,000 acres and destroyed 30 plus structures, Irvine Rotary supported local wildland…
Supplies for Veterans
Irvine Rotary provides baskets full of household items to start a home to formerly unhoused veterans who are provide apartments through Mercy House and who…
Books for the Youth
Irvine Rotary encourages young children to develop a love for reading by donating books and reading to 1st and 2nd grade students at “Dr. Seuss…
