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    Celebrating 20 years!

    20 years ago, IMPACT's vision for a floating hospital in Bangladesh became a reality - replicating the idea behind our hospital train in India but adapted to suit a country with 700+ rivers...

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    Child Health on the Tonlé Sap

    We are dedicated to improving the lives of disadvantaged children living on the Tonlé Sap Lake in northern Cambodia...

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    Tasty Team makes an IMPACT!

    Our UK programme, The Tasty Team, aims to prevent a range of potentially disabling diseases and serious conditions, by providing cooking sessions, budgeting help and general nutritional advice to improve the health and well being of children and families in Mid Sussex.

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    Support mothers and their babies throughout Africa and Asia by providing maternal healthcare, safeguarding against disease and creating a healthier future

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#MarvellousMedicine With rising cases of measles in the UK, Roald Dahl's heartbreaking reminder that no child need die of a vaccine preventable disease is as relevant as ever #RoaldDahlDay2019 #VaccinesWork

Measles: A Dangerous Illness
Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn't do anything.
"Are you feeling all right?" I asked her.
"I feel all sleepy," she said.
In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.
The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four [sic] years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.
On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
It is not yet generally accepted that measles can be a dangerous illness. Believe me, it is. In my opinion parents who now refuse to have their children immunised are putting the lives of those children at risk. In America, where measles immunisation is compulsory, measles like smallpox, has been virtually wiped out.
Here in Britain, because so many parents refuse, either out of obstinacy or ignorance or fear, to allow their children to be immunised, we still have a hundred thousand cases of measles every year. Out of those, more than 10,000 will suffer side effects of one kind or another. At least 10,000 will develop ear or chest infections. About 20 will die.
LET THAT SINK IN.
Every year around 20 children will die in Britain from measles.
So what about the risks that your children will run from being immunised?
They are almost non-existent. Listen to this. In a district of around 300,000 people, there will be only one child every 250 years who will develop serious side effects from measles immunisation! That is about a million to one chance. I should think there would be more chance of your child choking to death on a chocolate bar than of becoming seriously ill from a measles immunisation. So what on earth are you worrying about? It really is almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunised.
The ideal time to have it done is at 13 months, but it is never too late. All school-children who have not yet had a measles immunisation should beg their parents to arrange for them to have one as soon as possible.
Incidentally, I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was 'James and the Giant Peach'. That was when she was still alive. The second was 'The BFG', dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children. ... See MoreSee Less

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IMPACT Foundation

2 weeks ago

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#RememberACharityInYourWillWeek Our supporter Eric said he wanted his legacy to change people's lives for the better. So when he died last year, leaving a gift to IMPACT in his will, it was a fitting memorial to create a scholorship fund for a young nurse to train at our nursing school in #Bangladesh Find out how you can leave a gift to the future and about our free online wills service impact.org.uk/how-you-can-help/fundraising-ideas/ #RememberACharityWeek ... See MoreSee Less

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#CoastToCoastForIMPACT some of the fells, dales and moors that Becky is walking in aid of IMPACT #Bangladesh. 190 miles from coast to coast, through the heart of the country and with mountain top yoga along the way #GoBecky! Good luck to Ernie and Veronica who joined her today: uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?userUrl=RebeccaHawkins12&pageUrl=1 ... See MoreSee Less

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#RememberACharityWeek Our supporter Eric said he wanted his legacy to change people's lives for the better. So when the time came, it was a fitting memorial to create a scholorship for a young nurse to train at our nursing school in #Bangladesh https://t.co/kuzJcjXJP0

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#CoastToCoastForIMPACT some of the fells, dales & moors that @Hawkins1Rebecca is walking in aid of IMPACT #Bangladesh. 190 miles through the country & with mountain top yoga along the way #GoBecky! https://t.co/H1GM8WcGzI

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