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About Max Foundation

Max Foundation is named after Max Le Poole. Max was born on July 24, 2003 in Amsterdam and died from a viral infection on March 30, 2004. The virus – which is not so uncommon – attacked his liver, intestines, lungs, brain and heart during one night. The latter proved fatal. Fortunately, it is extremely rare in the Netherlands that a healthy child dies so suddely. 

Max Foundation believes that still too many children die from easily preventable diseases. That has to change. The lives of all children are valuable.

 

The mission of Max Foundation is to provide as many children under five a healthy start in life, in the most effective and long-lasting way. We envision a world in which easily preventable diseases, such as certain infections, are no longer a cause for child mortality amongst children under the age of five. Every day, nearly 18.000 children under five years old still die unnecessarily from infectious diseases like diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia. Unnecessarily? Yes. Since these diseases can be easily prevented by access to safe water, adequate sanitation facilities and better hygiene conditions for mother and child. Consequently, our integrated approach of WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) and HEALTH components like safe motherhood and nutrition is effective in preventing child mortality and providing young children with a healthy start in life. The same applies to the region – South Asia – we work in: four out of five children who die before the age of five live in Sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia.

We aim to fight child mortality by providing a healthy start of life to as many children as possible in the most effective and sustainable way. We aim to be a gamechanger, bringing in business thinking for more effective solutions. We have reached almost 2 million people and aim to reach a total of 3 million by 2021.