Unilever Partners With Save The Children To Help Reduce Mortality Rates Among Infants In China

Unilever signed a memorandum of understanding with Save the Children, China Development Research Foundation, and the Meishan government of China's Sichuan province to jointly implement projects for mountain village kindergartens in the province. The partnership marks the official launch of the Unilever's Early Childhood Development Program, which is part of Save the Children's Everyone project. The project seeks to ensure that all countries can achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of cutting mortality rates among infants aged below five years by two-thirds by 2015. About 20,000 children and 30,000 parents in China are expected to benefit from the project.