Read about our Charitable Partners
Launched in October 2002, The Child Health Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific need — saving children's lives and improving the quality of their health. Over 200,000 children die every week from preventable causes, and many millions more suffer from preventable disease, curable blindness, and malnutrition. To learn more about some of the health issues children face today, click here.
In less than five seconds, visitors to The Child Health Site can click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button and save young lives and help children stay healthy. How? Each click — free to the visitor — generates funds paid by site sponsors. The funding goes to The Child Health Site's charity partner, Partners in Health , who use it to:
In Haiti for over 25 years, PIH was well prepared to help after the 2010 earthquake.
- Distribute vitamin A, strengthening young immune systems and improving resistance to disease. Vitamin A supplementation also prevents as many as 400,000 cases of childhood blindness each year.
- Administer oral re-hydration therapy to children with severe dehydration, often due to diarrhea, a serious killer of children under five worldwide.
Funding from the site helps an average of more than 1,000 children every day. A breakdown of the number of children helped each day is included on the Results — How You're Helping page.
In July of 2010, The Child Health Site re-focused our funding toward micronutrients (vitamin A, a vital nutrient that can help prevent and even reverse childhood blindness as well as prevent many other debilitating childhood diseases) and the life-saving administration of oral rehydration formula to infants suffering from diarrhea (which causes roughly 1 in 5 child deaths, and can kill a newborn in hours).
For years, clicks from The Child Health Site also funded prosthetics for children through Prosthetics Outreach Foundation. The great news is, POF has seen the need for prosthetics for children decrease in their service areas. The Child Health Site and the GreaterGood Network still support this mission by offering Gifts That Give MoreTM which provide for prostheses & more , and help POF treat clubfoot , a leading cause of disability in the developing world.
Also since 2002, clicks funded testing kits that would determine if an expectant mother was HIV-positive, so that she could receive drug treatment to prevent transmitting HIV to her newborn during birth. Today, this need is covered by other grant efforts, which allow us to focus your daily click onto other, more pressing healthcare needs for children.
Thank you for caring and making an effort to help children around the world!
About the owners of The Child Health Site
The Child Health Site is owned and operated by Tim Kunin and Greg Hesterberg, co-owners of CharityUSA.com (parent company of GreaterGood Network). Long-time friends and environmental activists, Tim Kunin and Greg Hesterberg met at the University of Michigan while working on the Michigan Bottle Bill ballot campaign in 1976. In the late 1990s, they recognized that broad consumer-adoption of the Internet offered a new opportunity to raise funds for good causes.
Enthusiastic supporters of The Hunger Site, they were able to buy that site and its sister sites in 2001. The Child Health Site launched in October of 2002 to help children around the world.
Tim Kunin is a life-long lover of wilderness who has canoed and hiked for thousands of miles in the United States, Canada, and Patagonia. He started working for environmental causes at the University of Michigan, where he walked 200 miles across the state to publicize the need for recycling. He is very interested in children's issues and has worked for many years with his wife Susan Guzmich and their children Mara and Daniel to raise money to help impoverished children.
Tim has traveled extensively to visit charity partners and purchase some of the fair-trade products available on our sites. He is convinced that providing a market for products made by rural women artisans is the best method of reducing inter-generational poverty. Travels have taken Tim to Canada, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Sweden, England, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Mozambique, South Africa, Israel, India, and Afghanistan. Tim has purchased unique products in each of these countries which can in turn be purchased from the web stores here.
Greg Hesterberg was chairman of two statewide consumer and environmental organizations (MaryPIRG and PIRGIM) while in college. After 20 years running a successful publishing firm, Greg delights in finding innovative ways to make the world a better place.
