And it aims to increase the number of children who walk or ride their bicycles to school.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Many care for a number of children, including those whose parents died of AIDS.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

The number of children who are out of school in India is staggering, an estimated eight million of them.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

It says that for the first time, the number of children dying every year has fallen below 2.5 million children every year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

The Centers for Disease Control shows that the number of children with autism in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

So,unfortunately, a number of children in the Swat Valley now are paralyzed from this disease.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Ann Veneman,is anExecutive Director of UNICEF, She says global efforts have stopped a downward trend in vaccinations and have even boosted the number of children and infants being vaccinated.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

"These targets are set for 2015 and are to achieve at least 90 percent measles vaccination coverage nationally and 80 percent coverage in every district, reduce measles cases to less than five per million population, reduce measles mortality by U.N.health agencies have made huge strides in reducing the number of children dying from measles.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

John Grogan,his wife Jenny and their three children all loved Marley even though the dog almost destroyed their home a number of times.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

The number of infected men, women and children is estimated at more than five and a half million -- or eleven percent of the population.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

In September,the United Nations said the estimated number of deaths of children under age five had dropped from the previous year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Mahecic says the government has made efforts to increase the number of places for children at specialized,open centers.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

(Voice) There also are a number of Internet groups for parents hoping to locate pox parties, often to avoid vaccinating their children.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Meanwhile,security forces reportedly arrested a number of women protesters at a Tehran park, who meet regularly to protest their children's detention in government prisons.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

A number of people have taken over a children's climbing set. They've set up sheets and tents and what look like make shift sleeping bags.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

It causes debilitating fevers and is the number one killer of children in Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

Cambodia is working to reduce the number of women who die in childbirth and to lower the number of infants and children under age five who die.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Because all people have children." The number of dead is not clear.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

The head of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, says impressive progress has been made in areas such as treatment for HIV/AIDS, in the large number of lives saved among children under five and in significant cuts in deaths from malaria and measles.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

U.N.Special Representative Radhika Coomaraswamy says during the past year, a significant number of child soldiers were released by the National Liberation Forces in Burundi and more children are to be released in the Central African Republic and the Philippines as a result of active intervention by the United Nations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16