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Sadly, one in six children in Tanzania do not live to their fifth birthday. In poor rural areas, many children are malnourished and don't have access to health care. RB is helping mothers like Zuhara to make sure their children are not malnourished.


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  • A mother in Tanzania holds her young baby
    A mother in Tanzania holds her young baby
  • A demonstration on how to put your mosquito net up to protect children and families from deadly malaria in Tanzania
    A mosquito net set up demonstration on how to protect children and families from deadly malaria in Tanzania
  • A Save the Children programme worker at a health meeting in Mipingu village in Tanzania delivering health and hygiene messages through voice and images
    Delivering health and hygiene messages through voice and images in Mipingu village, Tanzania
  • A Save the Children health worker giving a child Nurofen at a clinic in Tanzania
    A Save the Children health worker giving a child Nurofen at a clinic in Tanzania
  • 1. A mother weighs her baby at Save the Children health clinic in Tanzania / 2. Children waiting to be seen at a Save the Children health clinic in Tanzania / 3. Young children and their parents waiting to get health advice at a Save the Children clinic in Tanzania
    Children at Save the Children health clinics in Tanzania


How many children have we helped in Tanzania?


Life saving work ...

58,000
children saved and 5,000 breastfeeding mothers supported


Immunisation plus malaria and pneumonia care

74
health workers trained to work with children


Severe malnutrition treated

20
health workers trained to treat malnourished children


Clean, safe, water

7,000
people now have access


Nutrition and livelihoods

128
community groups set up with fruit and vegetable gardens


RB saving lives in Tanzania

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Reckitt Benckiser in partnership with Save the Children
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What it really means

Zuhara's story - Zuhara is a single mother with four children who can't grow food for herself. She attended a cooking club where she leant how to prepare protein-rich pre-mix porridge for her malnourished children
'RB's support for Save the Children's work in Tanzania is vital and is literally saving the lives of children and mothers in Lindi region, Tanzania. Together we are training health staff, educating mothers and communities on preventable childhood illnesses and on good health and hygiene practices. We treat children who are affected by, or vulnerable to, basic and entirely preventable illnesses such as malaria, measles, diarrhoea and pneumonia - the biggest barriers to children reaching their 5th birthday.'

Anthony Mwendamaka
Tanzania Programme Manager, Save the Children

Find out more

See what we're doing on our other projects in Angola, India and Brazil, and for the Children's Emergency Fund