Foreign Affairs committee  Ultimately, we find that oftentimes—and I think this was mentioned in the first suite of speakers this morning—working with religious leaders and community leaders, most of whom are male, is actually a very good way of highlighting why change is important and what the benefit is

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly. In the case of child trafficking in particular, you can look to the mining sector or to other major infrastructure development activities in the developing world and see that there is a great risk oftentimes at those sites, where children are being trafficked and sexu

Foreign Affairs committee  Would you mind if I took a quick stab at that?

Foreign Affairs committee  Ultimately, in order to succeed, effective aid recognizes that country ownership is very important. While there are certainly cases of corruption, that's why it is so important to work with.... Save the Children works with governments as well as communities, and we seek to bridge

Foreign Affairs committee  In fact we had I think it was the same tranche of funding that my colleague from CARE is referencing. We had that short timeframe to respond. As she said, I think it was an innovative piece. We knew the parameters were tight going in. We're pleased to be able to have a really goo

Foreign Affairs committee  Honourable committee chair, members of Parliament, the clerk of the committee, and esteemed colleagues, Save the Children is honoured to appear today before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs to talk to you about Canada's role particularly as it relates to the prevention o

Status of Women committee  Save the Children actually works on the ground with partners. We do have an FGM program. I want to say it's in Burkina Faso, but I can't remember exactly. Essentially, the most important thing is that the health arguments and the health discussion are often the best ways to disco

Status of Women committee  Yes. I can't even articulate it, actually. So the education also has to come from other women.

Status of Women committee  I couldn't give you a percentage. I imagine that, yes, maternal deaths would be prevented if you were able to prevent this atrocity from occurring, for sure. But I couldn't give you a statistic off the top of my head.

Status of Women committee  I will probably have to come back to you with that. I don't have in my notes the investment that delivered that number. It is in the State of the World's Mothers report. I have a copy of it. I can't distribute it widely, unfortunately, because it's not translated. If you want I

Status of Women committee  I wasn't saying you would only have to focus on two. We are saying that the value added for Canada could be or should be this piece. It's not to say that the other pieces don't have to be addressed and shouldn't be addressed. That is the point we're making. We put the focus there

Status of Women committee  I think you've painted the picture, actually. Large families, for poor women, do have those impacts in terms of health, in terms of nutrition, food availability, etc. Clearly, contraception is a very important piece of the maternal, newborn, and child health initiative, and it wa

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  First of all, as I said before, Save the Children is a member of the partnership, and we support the notion of an entire support of reproductive care, or health care in totality. What I was saying in relation to the focus of this brief is, again, where the consensus of the organi

Status of Women committee  Clearly, clean water is incredibly important. It prevents diarrheal disease, as an example. Undernutrition, malnutrition, is an underlying factor in many diseases and across the range, including pneumonia, but also HIV/AIDS, etc. It has a negative impact, obviously, across the bo