Maternal Mortality Prevention
Maternal Mortality: it is the death of women during the pregnancy or 42 days after the baby's birth. It occurs by any cause related with the pregnancy or aggravated by it. [read more]

Exchanging ideas - child education n. 54
Toys and play
"At truth I tell you that if you don't do as the children, you won't go to heaven" (Matthew 18,3).
At our change of ideas on the Toys and Play Project, we talked to you at the last two number on the importance of playing for the development of the child. We saw that the child plays because she/he needs it and it is not only for fun as most adults think. And we saw that is also necessary to search and create the spaces and moments of playing at the communities. [read more]

Communities
Triple Happiness
Barretos - São Paulo
Pastoral da Criança at the city of Embuaba was born on October 11th and it was already gained triple force, thus on September 30th 2003 was born the triplets: Leonardo Fiocck, Glória Maria Fiocck e Iasmin Fiocck, all with low weight. As they were born with 8 months of pregnancy, they stayed incubated for a month. The parents, Sueli de Fátima Fiocck and José Aparecido Fiocck, orange catcher, live with the daughter 12 years old in a small house with four rooms. They receive help from the community, relatives and neighbors. Pastoral da Criança that also, at this case, have all the attention, love and dedication are following up the children and family.

Ecumenim and Pastoral da Criança
Pastoral da Criança was born from a dream: save children. Passed 20 years, we see that this dream becomes a reality at each instant, in many places, reaching people from many races. It's a true divine kairós, making happen the reason of Jesus coming: "I came for that all have life and have it in abundance!" (Jo 10,10). The - national and international - recognition proves the efficiency of this Pastoral: several prizes, innumerous consecrations, gratefulness expressed in different ways. But, the main prize is to see the life present on thousand of children, saved by the efficient action developed by thousands of people, volunteers, spread by thousands of communities, that, with a lot of generosity, they face every sort of challenges, showing that it is possible to construct another possible world, where peace, solidarity, sharing are respected and defended. [read more]

Solidarity Act
Pastoral da Criança always has a true story to share. It is the case of Regina Tomé (support Pastoral da Criança) that tells us a solidarity act, where Pastoral da Criança made that a recently born child come back to his/her mother's arms. [read more]

Letícia story
On 2000 Pastoral da Criança was beginning its work on the community Jardim Ouro Preto, São José dos Pinhais, with only two community leaders: Eliane and Sirlei. At the home visits, they found a child on a critical state, needing urgent medical treatment. [read more]

Prenatal
If it exist a suspect of pregnancy must seek for a health unity nearest to confirm the hypothesis and begin to follow up the health. The prenatal can assure a healthy pregnancy and a secure birth. The pregnant have the right to do six prenatal appointments during all the pregnancy. [read more]

Afections perinal at the fiest year of life
What are perinatal affections?
They are diseases of the recently born that have the origin on the perinatal period (seven days after the birth), even that the death will come later. [read more]

To praise is important
The sincere praise, heard since he/she is a child, it is capable to transform people's life and make them happy. Thus, who doesn't like to be valued at what he/she does well? Even the children collaborate more when they are recognized for what they do well, even at small things. [read more]