And it is tackling the long-term causes of child poverty through policies aimed at pre-school children in poor areas, and a new programme designed to cut teenage pregnancy.
And some policies, such as a massive increase in state-funded child-care for the working poor, will raise costs while introducing new benefits traps.
The reasons for premature birth are not properly understood, but some of the factors which may be involved - such as poor diet and lifestyle - may themselves impact independently upon the health of the child.
But the shortage of child-friendly medicine is not confined to poor countries.
Indeed, they sometimes find themselves working together, for example when they pushed to make child-care tax credits available to the working poor.
Compassion International is a child-sponsorship program that reaches the poorest of the poor in an effort to break the cycle of poverty.
Given that limited access to quality ECE has negative effects on child development which, in turn, undermines child performance at primary and post-primary school, The Mother-Child Home Education Programme (MOCEP) was initiated in 2000 to empower poor families to provide early childhood literacy training to their children through a home-based intergenerational literacy training approach.
The M23 rebel group that Ntaganda co-led is full of officers with extremely poor human rights records of mass murders, child soldier recruitment and sexual violence.
It is intended to address the frustrations of parents who find that successful local schools are full up - and who do not want to send their child to a school with a poor record.
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They chose to protect my tax cut, while cutting 140, 000 unemployed workers out of their job training programs, 100, 000 working families out of their child care assistance, and worst of all, while cutting 300, 000 poor children out of their after-school programs, when we know it keeps them off the streets, out of trouble, in school, learning, going to college and having a good life.
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