Besides preventing violence against the children in the family and community environment, the Pastoral da Criança has achieved other solid results, year by year, such as the reduction of infant mortality to under 13 deaths per thousand born alive infants in the assisted communities in 2001. In the same period, according to statistics by UNICEF for the year of 1999, the national average was 34.6 deaths per one thousand born alive infants all over Brazil.

          Malnutrition among Pastoral children was also cut significantly. Among more than 1.6 million children under age six, only 6.4% suffer from malnutrition. That means that, thank to the solidarity work of more than 153 thousand volunteers - community leaders and members of coordination and support teams - thousands of kids are saved from death every year in Brazil, and many others are recovered from malnutrition.

Mortality Graphic

Undernourishment Graphic