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education at risk if they leave early or drop
out completely to go to work each day?
How do companies support families who
uproot themselves to take on an employ-
ment opportunity?
“It’s awareness and education so that
companies will start thinking about their
impact on children. If their business prac-
tices are inadvertently hurting children,
we’ll bring that to their attention, discuss
it with themand hopefully the companies
will start to think, maybe if we just modify
our business practices in a certain way or
we double check our suppliers in a certain
way, we would be bringingmore benefits
to children or less harm to children,” he ex-
plained.
FEWER CHILDREN UNDER
FIVE ARE DYING
Fortunately, their efforts are working.
Around the world, fewer children under
the age of five are dying from preventable
