AID grant no. PDC-0500-G-00-1065-00 to World Vision Relief and Development, Inc. (WVRD) to support child survival projects in Bangladesh, Haiti, Mali, Senegal, and Zimbabwe

Activities will include immunization of infants and women, distribution of oral rehydration solution packets, nutrition education, child-spacing promotion, Vitamin A distribution, control of respiratory infections, malaria prophylaxis, and training of community health committees and volunteer health workers. Country targets are as follows: (1) in Dhaka City, Bangladesh, 38,880 women and 22,263 children; (2) in the Barahona Province of the Dominican Republic, 33,569 children and 57,547 women; (3) in La Gonave, Haiti, 14,759 children and 17,003 women; (4) in Koutiala Cercle, Sikasso Region, Mali, 71 villages containing 26,700 children and 25,600 women; (5) in Meckhe and four rural communities, Senegal, 9,194 children and 9,766 women; (6) in Shamva District, Zimbabwe, 16,418 children and 34,940 women.