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Let us take a pledge to protect our families

 In Mumbai Smiles

20th may

“As we strive to usher in a more sustainable future, achieve the Millennium Development Goals, shape a new development agenda and combat climate change, let us mobilize the world’s families.” –  Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General

The International Day of Families is observed on the 15th of May every year. This day reflects the importance that the international community attaches to families. The day provides an opportunity to promote awareness on issues relating to families and to increase knowledge of the social, economic and demographic processes affecting families.
15th May, 2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and offers an opportunity to refocus on the role of families in development, take stock of recent trends in family policy development, share good practices in family policy making, review challenges faced by families worldwide and recommend solutions.

Mumbai Smiles wants to take this opportunity to create awareness about an important issue. Families around the world share meals together. But can you believe that doing something as basic as cooking meals kills millions of people in the developing world? Every 8 seconds cookstove smoke claims a life. Every year, over 4 million people, many of them women and children die from indoor air pollution caused by cooking over open fires or with unsafe cookstoves.

Cooking shouldn’t kill. That is why the UN Foundation hosts the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves to stop this silent killer by building a thriving global market for affordable and safe clean cookstoves and fuels.

Even YOU can help put an end to this global tragedy. A gift/donation to this Global Alliance will help build a thriving global market for clean cookstoves. This way, millions of families in the developing world can have a chance to cook in safe conditions.

So on this International Day of Families, let us all come together and contribute to Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and eliminate this threat to our family system.

Happy International family Day.!!

20th May 1

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