Vietnam ranks ninety-third on the Save the Children's 2014 Mothers' Index...
Vietnam ranks ninety-third on the Save the Children’s 2014 Mothers’ Index, an annual ranking of the best and worst places in the world to be a mother.
Despite 7 scores lower compared with last year, the country remains ahead of regional neighboring countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.
The index is a part of the annual State of the World’s Mothers report, now in its fifteenth issue with 178 countries involved. The report shows which country has succeeded or failed to fulfill achievements in saving and improving the lives of mothers and their children.
Overall, Finland ranks the best place to be a mother for the second straight. The report shows that maternal and child mortality rate in the most challenging countries of the world could be cut when efforts are made to improve services for mothers and children.
This year’s State of the World’s Mothers report focuses on mothers in humanitarian crises in order to better understand and respond to their needs. Mothers in humanitarian crises often struggle to keep their children healthy and safe while their own vulnerability to poverty, malnutrition, sexual violence and unassisted childbirth increases.
Save the Children has been working in Vietnam for about 20 years, responding to major disasters, most recently Typhoon Wutip and Typhoon Nari.
The charity has provided those in the worst-stricken places with cash grants to help them repair homes, buy food and medicines and continue taking their children to school.
Save the Children has called upon countries and civil societies to make sure that every mother and newborn at risk in times of crisis has access to high quality health care, build the resilience of health systems to minimize the harm of crises on health, develop national and local preparedness plans tailored to respond to mothers and children’ specific needs in emergencies, etc.
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