Millennium Development Goals

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

Nearly one million children under five die each year from indoor air pollution. Providing modern energy to replace traditional biomass fuels helps reduce this risk. In addition, it helps power pumps to provide safe drinking water, and provides essential energy to hospitals.

What is Shell doing?

1. Core business activities

Producing and delivering modern energy for development, see Millennium Development Goal 1.

Improving children’s health indirectly via other goals – economic opportunities, reduced pollution, HIV/AIDS prevention: See Millennium Development Goal 1, Millennium Development Goal 6 and Millennium Development Goal 7.

2. Social investment

Tackling indoor air pollution, see Millennium Development Goal 3.

Providing support for health projects, for example:

In Nigeria, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd sponsors a health support programme to train voluntary Village Health Workers and Traditional Birth attendants. Shell also supports National Immunisation Day and the Government's drive to 'kick polio out of Nigeria'. Visit Shell Nigeria's Health Care page.
In the Philippines, Shell’s malaria programme with the local government has significantly reduced deaths. A Social Health Insurance scheme implemented with local partners helps those not able to access healthcare. Visit the Sustainable Development - Social section at www.malampaya.com - opens in new window

3. Partnerships, policy dialogue and advocacy

Supporting efforts to combat indoor air pollution, see Millennium Development Goal 3.

Supporting international codes:

We support the following codes related to health: